ABC News / Uncategorized Weight Loss Surgery: Bar for Lap Band Lowered, but Is Gastric Bypass Better? February 25, 2011

February 25, 2011

Weight Loss Surgery: Bar for Lap Band Lowered, but Is Gastric Bypass Better?

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Experts Weigh Risks, Benefits of Both Procedures

By KATIE MOISSE, ABC News Medical Unit

On the heels of a Feb. 16 decision by the Food and Drug Administration to make millions more people eligible for laparoscopic gastric banding (lap band) weight loss surgery, a new study suggests the more invasive gastric bypass may be better.

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, compared the effects of lap band and gastric bypass among 200 morbidly obese patients treated at the UCSF Bariatric Surgery Program. Gastric bypass led to greater weight loss, increased resolution of diabetes and improved quality of life one year after surgery, they reported today in Archives of Surgery.

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Univision.com / Dr. Constantino Mendieta Ingrid en el supermercado February 24, 2011

February 23, 2011

Ingrid en el supermercado

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Ingrid en el supermercado

En este Delicioso aprovechamos al máximo el tiempo y el dinero. Con una visita al supermercado  vamos a preparar seis recetas que presentaremos en este y el próximo show. (Puedes encontrar la lista del supermercado debajo de este artículo)  Las primeras tres  incluyen unas deliciosas Tostadas de Camarones Ahumados con Ensalada de Col y Chipotle, Albóndigas de Arroz y Ensalada de Fajita con Aderezo de Jalapeño. ¿Y adivinen quien se sienta con nosotros a la mesa para compartir la comida?  La bella Chiquinquira Delgado está en la casa de Delicioso.

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The Bellingham Herald / Dr. Constantino Mendieta Chasing shifting body ideals: Homework still a must February 24, 2011

February 24, 2011

Chasing shifting body ideals: Homework still a must

Blame it on Jennifer Lopez.

She and other entertainers with bodacious backsides – Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, and Kim Kardashian among them – have helped make many women feel insecure about yet another part of their bodies: their butts.

Once a piece of real estate that almost no woman would want to enlarge, the ideal butt for some now must be round as a balloon, perky, and well-defined. That’s hard to achieve naturally when you’re also striving for the anorexic look or fighting the sags and realignment that age and gravity inevitably bring.

Hence a new demand for butt-enhancing medical procedures – a desire that had tragic consequences recently when an English medical tourist died after black-market butt injections she received in a hotel room near Philadelphia International Airport.

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AmericanHealthAndBeauty.com / Uncategorized TOGA Weight Loss Procedure – Incision Free Bariatric Surgery February 18, 2011

February 17, 2011

TOGA Weight Loss Procedure – Incision Free Bariatric Surgery

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A new endoscopic surgical procedure is helping patients lose weight and avoid the scars.

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A new scarless procedure known as TOGA is changing the face of bariatric surgery. This incision free treatment helps patients to lose weight as with other bariatric weight loss surgeries, but this procedure is doesn’t need a scalpel.

“This is quite different,” says Dr. Gregg Nishi of the Khalili Center for Bariatric Care in Beverly Hills. “You wouldn’t really even put it in the same category with the other bariatric surgeries.” He says that all of the other weight loss operations involve cutting through the stomach to get to the internal organs. TOGA on the other hand, is endoscopic.

“The TOGA is a new wave of technology which involves endoscopic procedures where you put devices down the mouth and in the esophagus and operate on the stomach from within,” describes Dr. Nishi.

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AmericanHealthAndBeauty.com / Uncategorized Lap-Band Receives Official FDA Approval February 18, 2011

February 17, 2011

Lap-Band Receives Official FDA Approval

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Allergan gets the go-ahead to change market their gastric banding device to less obese patients.

The FDA has approved the marketing and use of the Lap-Band device for surgical weight loss to less obese patients. Last December, an advisory panel voted to approve this change and now that the official approval has been granted, the marketing changes can begin.

Lap-Band is made by Allergan, the same medical manufacturer that brings us Botox and Latisse. It shrinks the stomach so obese patients can more easily cut back on their eating and lose the dangerous extra pounds that may be threatening their lives.

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