Insurance-mandated preoperative dietary counseling does not improve outcome and...

Here is a study on the topic I was talking about at our meeting today:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16925335

Here is another study that shows that pre-op weight loss doesn't lead to better weight loss post-operatively:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20174885?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=7