People who are trying hard to lose weight consider bread, especially whitebread, as one of their enemy foods. This is because bread is known to contain lots of carbohydrate that makes losing weight harder.
Actually, carbohydrate per se, is not the culprit but simple carbohydrates. If you’d like to lose weight, aim for complex carbohydrates. But there’s also something interesting about food rich in protein making one lose weight more than food rich in carbohydrates.
Working with researchers from University of WA, a Fremantle bakery called Bodi’s Bakehouse made a bread that’s dubbed as Slimmer’s Choice. This weight loss bread is rich in protein but not in carbohydrate, making people who eat it feel full longer compared with ordinary breads.
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Because of chest infection and stomach perforation, a weight-loss surgery patient is suing a Singapore hospital, accusing that those conditions were caused by the laparoscopic gastric banding procedure performed by the said hospital.
Lisa Beth Larsson, 43, a US citizen who weighed 120 kilograms, alleges negligence on the part of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and claims that the surgeon failed to do his job with reasonable care and skill.
She is seeking damages for the pain and physical consequences suffered, in addition to the 136,000 Singapore dollars (90,066 US dollars) she spent on the surgery in 2004, The Straits Times said.
The hospital and the surgeon, through their lawyers, dispute Larsson’s claims and are contesting the suit.
The trial is set for January to allow an expert witness to testify.
The procedure to treat morbid obesity is known as laparoscopic gastric banding. Ross Tay, another patient who weighed 160 kilograms, died last year in Singapore of post-surgical complications.
Tags: weight loss surgery, gastric banding, laparoscopic, Singapore
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Ever heard of synchronized menstruation? It’s when women living together for a long period of time have their menstruation almost at the same time. What does menstruation has to do with your weight? It’s this synchronization that seems to be also getting noticed when it comes to people who are often together. Something like synchronized weight gain?
This came into my attention after reading this article from Jonathan Lapook asking if obesity is contagious.
Jonathan mentioned about this research, Framingham Heart Study, suggesting that a person’s weight can be adopted by other people he or she is often with.
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Treating obesity will be tantamount to treating asthma if this discovery about the immune system cells, known as Th2 cells, that links the two conditions yields more favorable results.
Although some speculate that asthma causes obesity because of having to resort to a more sedentary lifestyle, weight gain, or the increase in body mass index or BMI, happens even before asthma develops, which strengthened the link between asthma and obesity.
This linkage made researchers follow through their study about Th2 cells, which inflames the lungs and produces protein that affects the appetite of a person.
The significance of this study is for asthmatic people to improve their condition.
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[image from Lara Ferroni]
Tags: cell, obesity, asthma, research, discovery, BMI
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