In a previous sharepost, I discuss The Benefits of Bariatric Surgery for Severely Obese Adolescents, and offer resources for parents wishing to explore this further with their pediatricians. Let's now consider the potential risks of bariatric surgery among obese adolescents.
Adolescents can be habitual about turning the sensitivities of their teenage years into waves of hypercritical self-degradation.
Even those instances that will be forgotten across time are implosions in the teenage...
Obesity in the United States has become extreme. More than two-thirds of Americans are overweight, and this includes about 20% of... Read more »
Hypertension, or high blood pressure as it more commonly called, is one of the obesity-related conditions that I struggled with before my... Read more »
I read a statistic recently that if you are 52 years old and healthy that you may very well be dancing into your 90s. That got me to... Read more »
People who have diabetes and are severely overweight are deciding more and more often that bariatric surgery is just the thing for them.... Read more »
Why? I looked into weight-loss surgery options because my life had become out of control. I had ballooned to morbid obesity and I recently... Read more »
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