Patients seeking bariatric surgery in the region will soon have easier access to pre- and post-operation services.
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced $12.6 million funding for increased bariatric services on Tuesday.
The money will fund the new centre in Windsor as well as the creation of four centres of excellence in Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph and Ottawa and a new obesity treatment centre for children in Toronto.
A CONSULTANT who helps treat hundreds of obese Welsh patients with drastic weight loss surgery has defended the £750,000 forked out by health chiefs on the procedure.
The 76 Welsh NHS-funded gastric banding operations last year were attacked by Clwyd West AM Darren Millar last week, who said the cash should be spent on cancer drugs.
You don't have to be an adult to have insomnia. Children can also have problems sleeping -- and no simple lullaby will cure them.
Among the chief culprits, which also goes for adults: a skyrocketing obesity rate.
Obesity among middle-age people increases the risk of illness and death later in life, according to Finnish researchers.
A team of researchers studied more than 1,000 men from age 25 to mid-70s and found that those who were overweight during their 40s followed by a period of weight loss were more susceptible to illness and death as they got older.
Writing in the European Heart Journal, researchers said that while obesity has been linked to risk of heart disease, other studies have shown that being overweight can actually help in situations of heart failure.
A study conducted jointly by the University of Navarra and the University of Harvard has confirmed that nut consumption is not associated with greater weight gain.
This was demonstrated by monitoring 51,188 American nurses over eight years (Nurses' Health Study II). Volunteers were between the ages of 20 and 45. Despite the fact that the body weight of women normally increases, explained Maira Bes Rastrollo, principal researcher behind the project, it was shown that those who consumed nuts two or more times a week gained less weight than those who did not.
Geneva Lindsay works out six days a week to stay healthy, to maintain muscle, to keep the pounds off and because "I look in the mirror and I see something good. And I feel good."
And whether you're 24 or, like Lindsay, 74, those reasons make sense.
In fact, the older we are, the more exercising makes sense.
Obese patients with heart disease do better and live longer than leaner patients with the same severity of disease, according to a study published last week in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The study's authors, from the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, refer to fat's seemingly protective effect in this regard as the "obesity paradox."
So surely it must be a good thing that 70 percent of Americans are overweight; this way they can better recover from the heart disease that they likely never would have had if they were thinner.
In the immortal words of my sister, "I haven't seen those parts since I passed through them when she was birthing me, I had hoped to never see them again. Mom is on the same page, she really could have lived happily without ever having her personal bits exposed to either daughter, let alone both.
Q: How common of a problem is heartburn?
A: Heartburn is the most common and "classic" symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). It is one of the most common illnesses treated in primary care offices, with some reports indicating that 14 percent of the adult population in the United States experience heartburn at least once per week. Seven percent have symptoms daily. About 61 million Americans have heartburn at least once per month; that is 44 percent of the adult population.
