It’s the morning after a celebratory Bank Holiday and Memorial Day weekend – and in our case here at Bariatric Cookery a birthday too. We wouldn’t be surprised therefore if you have jumped on the scales, wailed a little, then hit ‘browse’ on your device to look for ways to address this. No doubt, you[Read More]
Bariatric Buzz
New Weight-Loss Procedure Offers A New Treatment Option
Until recently, most hospitals offered three surgical weight loss options: gastric bypass surgery, vertical sleeve gastrectomy, and gastric band surgery. But now there’s a new, reversible procedure that provides an alternative for patients struggling with obesity. Called the vBloc Neurometabolic Therapy System, this weight-loss option is different from other popular bariatric surgeries in that[Read More]
Terminology … Unless You Know …
I do a lot of work on weight-loss surgery (WLS) or bariatric-surgery sites and after a little while you start to see that people use short-cuts for the most commonly used words. But if you’re a newbie and don’t know these, it can be a load of double-dutch! I was recently asked what some of these[Read More]
Patients Who Attend Follow-Up Have Better Outcomes
I’ve never quite understood why if you go ahead with surgery, often jumping all the hoops in order to qualify and then have it done, you would skip those very special appointments for after-care post-surgery. Yet I am told this happens more often than you would believe or predict. If you’re pre-op and thinking it[Read More]
Resetting The Set-Point: Is There Something To Learn From WLS?
GUEST POST: I am currently in Rio de Janeiro, speaking at the 21st World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders – IFSO 2016. As Lee Kaplan from Harvard University reminded the audience, obesity is a disease of energy homeostasis, where everything seems to be[Read More]