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Are you from NWA and are planning to undergo a weight loss surgery or have just gone under the knife? This support group is tailored for your emotional needs.

For updates about the support group’s events and meetings, contact Karen Robinson at 381-0118, Wyona Yaffe at 644-1999 or Jamie Brunk at gingerbreadnewslady @ yahoo. com. The group also has an online connection through Yahoo groups. The address is http: // health. groups. yahoo. com / group / wlsnwar.

No, it’s no longer just preparing all the adoption papers and the baby’s room if you’d like to be awarded as the most deserving adoptive parent. For a starter, undergoing weight loss surgery may improve your chances of being better adoptive parents, for this certain couple at least…

She could be born any day now, and her adoptive parents are confident but nervous that they are ready for her arrival.

But Shawn and Valerie DiGianfelice have done more than just decorate a room and buy diapers to prepare for the birth of their daughter.

The Grundy County High School teachers both recently underwent weight-loss surgery. Val was starting to have health problems due to her weight, and they both wanted to have more energy and longer lives.

“It is just going to give us a better quality of life,” Val said. “It is going to give us more energy.

“Eating healthy is going to get us to where we want to be,” she added, “and it is going to be a good environment for the baby.”

Full report here.

Now who would say that you haven’t thought well of your child’s future if you have managed to even consider going under the knife to live longer?

Tags: weight loss surgery, adoption, parents

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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US National Institutes of Health will be conducting the Teen Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) research to learn about the pros and cons of bariatric surgery among 200 teens.

Over the next five years, 200 (ages 14-19) teens will be enrolled and will undergo gastric bypass. These teens will then be compared to 200 adults who were bariatric surgery patients during their adulthood but have been obese since their teen years. And these teens will still be followed for two years after the weight loss surgery.

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Gastric bypass, a.k.a bariatric surgery is this procedure that is known to cause one to lose weight because it makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass parts of the small intestine. This will consequently make one feel full a lot quickly than when the stomach is in its original size. When food bypass some parts of the small intestine some calories don’t get absorbed easily, too, which also adds to the weight loss effect of this surgery.

If you are considering to undergo a weight loss surgery procedure such as gastric bypass but are scared of its risks, there is now a scoring sytem that may help measure the chances of dying from the procedure.

The scoring system was first proposed in 2006 by Duke University Medical surgeons and has been validated in a new study with 4,400 participants.

The factors considered to get a good estimation of whether a person is at risk of dying from gastric bypass include the patient’s age, gender, blood pressure, weight, and the risk of developing a blood clot in the lungs.

Physicians using the system can easily determine if their patients’ risk of dying from the surgery is low, medium or high. The new analysis found that patients in the high-risk group were six times more likely to die than those in the low-risk group, and patients in the medium-risk group were three times more likely to die.

Details of this Simple System that Accurately Predicts Weight-Loss Surgery Risk

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