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Hair loss after bariatric surgery
Reading Time: 2 minutes Many patients experience hair loss after weight loss surgery. In most cases this tends to be mild and short-lived, but is some cases the loss
9 October, 2019
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Simon Cowell: Weight Loss Surgery Rumours
Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps you read in the news today about Simon Cowell losing a lot of weight. It was a positive story about how he’d made changes
9 October, 2019
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General obesity
BBC News: Obesity does not reflect lack of willpower – psychologists
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s a really good article from the BBC. They quote a report by psychologists that states that obesity does not reflect a lack of willpower.
24 September, 2019
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NEW STUDY – 1 in 4 hospital beds will be occupied by someone with diabetes within 11 years.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The stories in the papers today merely repeat what we already knew, that as our weight increases, type 2 diabetes increases. Furthermore, this increase in
18 September, 2019
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General obesity
Fat-shaming is not the answer.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday saw a debate on Good Morning Britain where Piers Morgan and Danni Levy advocated for fat-shaming as the cure for obesity. The conversation continued
17 September, 2019
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General obesity
Does a high BMI make surgery riskier ?
Reading Time: 2 minutes The truth is yes, the higher your BMI, the higher your surgical risk. In fact, it is a greater weight that increases risk, but of
12 July, 2019
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Health
NAFLD and Weight Loss
Reading Time: 3 minutes The prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is increasing across the world in line with the increase in obesity. While much of the focus
12 June, 2019
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General obesity
Why is it so hard to lose weight?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, you may be comforted to know that it’s hard to lose weight because our bodies have evolved to cling on to stored fat, and
5 June, 2019
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Childhood Obesity and Weight Loss
Reading Time: 9 minutes If you are the parent of an obese child, the information on this page is designed to help you understand more about childhood obesity in
22 May, 2019
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