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Winnie-the-Pooh, the sequel: Tigger on Ritalin, Eeyore on Prozac, Pooh gets gastric-bypass surgery...
Eric S. Chivian ’64, one of the authors of “Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity,” believes that the answer to treating stomach ulcers may lie with the gastric brooding frog. “It’s mostly the ugly and the small that are keeping life going,” he said. Unfortunately for humanity, this species of frog has been extinct for over a decade. In a book signing Thursday night at the Harvard Coop, Chivian, the founder and director of the Center for Health...
...weight-loss options for obese pre-adolescents are slim. The two most effective obesity medications on the market, (Orlistat and Meridia) are not approved for children under age 15, and surgical treatments such as gastric bypass are often too risky for kids. That leaves lifestyle- and behavior-modification programs, combined with counseling, which can be effective but unpredictable. But Armstrong's study suggests that there may be unconventional and useful ways, like reading, to teach weight-loss techniques that researchers may not have considered...
Campos' study did not stratify the diabetes patients in his study by how long they had been living with their disease. But researchers think the benefits of gastric bypass may indeed be greatest in those obese patients who are recently diagnosed with diabetes, since their bodies are more likely to revert back to normal sugar metabolism after surgery. That's because much of the post-bypass weight loss is spurred by a shift in the hormonal feedback loop that controls hunger and satiety. Production of certain weight-related hormones, such as ghrelin, or the hunger hormone, are directly reduced...
...believe that the benefits of gastric bypass surgery outweigh any risk that a patient will have," says Hamdy. "If you look at the mortality in relation to obesity itself, especially if it occurs with diabetics, that is much, much higher than the risk of mortality from the surgery...