Showing posts with label Bariatric surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bariatric surgery. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Obesity can affect children's working memory (Higher BMI)

Obesity can affect children's working memory

Recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics and performed at the University of Vermont and Yale University on Obese children.


The thinner cortex
A new study has demonstrated that Obese children have lower working memory than the children with normal weight. 

The main reason for obesity is The thinner cortex. This can decreased  function among kids with higher BMI..



The study carried out based on the based on  10,000 teens of teans over a 10 year period. They have carried out in every two years, they interviewed as well as passed through various test like blood test and  brain scans. The study analyzed results and find out that participants with higher BMI have low working memory.

The study found that the thickness of the cerebral cortex would directly related to BMI and its  executive function.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Surgical Weight Loss Seminar

Surgical Weight Loss Seminar

Description


You will learn the following during a Surgical Weight Loss Seminar:
  • What it takes to lose excess weight
  • What the potential risks are
  • The importance of involving your doctor
  • The different types of surgical procedures available
Each seminar is facilitated by the Bariatric Program Specialist and a surgeon
 
Date & Time

Tue March 12, 2013 - 6:30 PM

This event occurs on the second Tuesday of every month

Location

American Fork Hospital
​​Classroom 1
170 North 1100 East
American Fork, UT 84003


Fee : No cost
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Source: https://intermountainhealthcare.org/hospitals/americanfork/classes/Pages/CalendarDetail.aspx?EventID=3828.0.2013-03-13T00:30:00Z

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Fitness Helsinki

Fitness Helsinki

Fitness fair
The Fitness in Helsinki is one of the largest fitness fairs in Finland and will be held under the auspices of the GoExpo. Many international manufacturers showcase their latest products and innovations from the gym. The Excercise Shop offers visitors the opportunity to buy on the crosstrainer or a spinning bicycle while training. In addition, many manufacturers offer fairgoers at special rates when buying their product.

Date:08.03.2013 - 10.03.2013 *
Audience:
publicly accessible
Cycle:
annually

Source: http://www.tradefairdates.com/Fitness-M5302/Helsinki.html

Monday, November 1, 2010

Obesity reduction through medical treatment


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Medical therapy delivered by primary care doctors is successful in severe obesity

Released: Monday, January 25, 2010

BATON ROUGE - Despite a general belief among physicians that extreme obesity is too difficult to treat, except with bariatric surgery, researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center have learned a substantial proportion of individuals with extreme obesity can lose 10-percent or more of their body weight through medical treatment that does not include surgery. Furthermore, even though those individuals are still obese, they have improvements in risk factors and other health markers. 

“This is important, because surgery is not often affordable or reimbursed by insurance,” said leading scientist Dr. Donna Ryan. “In fact, many medical treatments are frequently not reimbursed by insurance if they are for obesity. So this research is needed to show that primary care doctors are capable of helping obese patients lose weight to improve health, even those with extreme obesity.     


Ryan said losing only five-percent of body weight can reap healthy benefits for the extremely obese, and nearly 61-percent of those in her clinical trial achieved that. More than 40-percent lost 10-percent body weight or more. 

Ryan and her team spread out across Louisiana to recruit and train practicing physicians and their office staffs in eight cities in what she called “intensive medical intervention,” in which physicians used a combination of medication, low-calorie diets and behavior changes. All of the techniques were endorsed by national guidelines for obesity management. Training of physicians and their staffs took about a day and a half. 

Funded by the Louisiana Office of Group Benefits, which provides health coverage for state employees, the research team contacted state employees, seeking participants to screen for and enroll in the trial. Nearly 400 participants enrolled in the two-year trial, called LOSS, using the nearest trained physicians. 

About half of the participants received the intensive medical intervention, the other half received what Ryan called “usual care.” Those in the intense intervention group were immediately placed on a low-calorie liquid diet. They gradually moved to a low calorie, highly controlled diet using meal replacements, and received weight loss medication and group behavioral therapy that included lessons in exercise, activity, self-monitoring and recommendations for walking, water exercise and weight training. The group sessions were supervised by office staff. 

“We conducted this trial as close to the reality of a typical clinic setting as we could,” Ryan said, “We didn’t want to learn just if these strategies worked, but if they would work in the daily routine of a doctor’s practice.”

Ryan noted that the continual challenge in weight loss is keeping weight off, and that means sticking with a routine. More than 50-percent of the LOSS participants stuck with it for two years or more, keeping much of the weight off, but Ryan said that does leave room for improving weight loss maintenance. 

The LOSS trial results were published in the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. 



News Source: http://www.pbrc.edu/news/?ArticleID=93

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Sunday, May 10, 2009

How to Reduce Obesity through Obesity surgery ?

Surgery is the last option for more than 100 pounds weight people. After tried hard to reduce the weight, you need to make surgery by reducing weight by taking care of it.

There are various types of Bariatric surgery has perform to reduce the surgery. The obesity surgery can reduce the risk of weight loss and type 2 diabetes. You can reduce the risk of obesity.