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Advocacy Action: Can Prevention Alone Sole the Obesity Epidemic?
Many new programs promise obesity prevention measures. Yet obesity rates are on the rise. In this article, printed with the permission of the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC), Joe Nadglowski, president and CEO, discusses the measures our policy leaders must take in order to reverse our current life threatening trends
Weight Loss Surgery May Help Obese Adolescents
Childhood obesity is a serious and growing problem. Over the past 30 years, obesity rates among children have tripled. A recent study In the Journal of American Medical Association shows that gastric banding surgery, such as LAP-BAND, can and have been, more effective than traditional weight loss programs promoting diet and exercise.
Love What You Eat: How Mindful Eating Helps Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle
Happy New Year from the Surgical Specialists of Louisiana! We are pleased to be able to help you start it off right with this week’s feature article about mindful eating by Michelle May, MD, from her book “Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle” and reprinted with permission [...]
Body Image vs. Health Risk: What’s Your Motivation for Weight-Loss Surgery?
Body image is loosely defined as a person’s perception of their own physical appearance, or the internal sense of how one’s body appears to others. Although it is a complex subject, research suggests that body image dissatisfaction is greater in women than in men. Research also indicates that a person’s body image is often dramatically different from the way their body actually appears to others.
Walk From Obesity
The 4th Annual Walk From Obesity, sponsored by Southern Surgical Hospital, in conjunction with The Surgical Specialists of Louisiana, took place Saturday, November 14th in Slidell’s Olde Towne Historic District. The Walk From Obesity is the only annual nation-wide event to increase the awareness of the life threatening disease of obesity.
Obesity and Society – We Are What We Eat
We live in an obesogenic environment. But what does that mean? It’s a concept that’s gathering a lot of attention these days. The word obesogenic comes from combining the word “obese” with the suffix “genic” – to produce or generate something. It attempts to describe the condition of our modern society and how it contributes to the obesity epidemic.
