Weight loss surgery isn't a definite for Venitra Crenshaw, but it is something she's considering. "It's kind of hard losing weight on my own so I'm trying to find some other options for losing weight," she said.
Weighing 260 kilos at the age of 31, Bhopal-resident Manish Bharvesh needed a specially-built sturdy operating table to be laid on, and special long surgical instruments for a team of doctors to manoeuvre their way around his nine-inch thick abdominal wall.
One experimental procedure is a temporary fix that aims to teach life-long lessons.
Seven years ago, something else happened.
"I was fine just having one eye. But then, I had such pain that I had to remove the eye. And one in a million shot, the other eye went," Parsegian said.So it's not too surprising that he ended up tipping the scales at more than 23 stones.
After years of nagging from his wife and three children, the Wigston 44-year-old decided to change his life.
He swapped his favourite calorie-laden dishes for healthier options, started to do more exercise and joined a slimming club – and managed to shed almost half his body weight.
An L.A. City Council ban placed fast food restaurants in the spotlight, but in South Los Angeles, a lot of people are getting their fat calories from food purchased from other sources.
A patient's weight is often the white elephant in the examining room. Both patient and doctor know it's a problem, but often neither party wants to talk about it, says internist William Bestermann Jr., 62, medical director of a cardiovascular treatment program for the Holston Medical Group in Kingsport, Tenn.
Marlana Francis took a walk one day last year thinking it would be the start of a new exercise program. She’d attempted weight loss before, but nothing ever worked.
This time would be different, she thought with new hope. But just as quickly as the optimism rushed over her, a man leaned his head out of his car to crush her again.
Their study included 61 teens who had laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. One year after surgery, overall body mass index -- a measurement of weight in relation to height -- among the teens had decreased by 37 percent. However, because of their weight before surgery, the teens were still considered to be morbidly obese even after they lost weight.
