Weight Regain after Weight Loss Surgery

By Dave Oliak | October 20, 2012
Weight-Regain-After-Weight-Loss-Surgery

Weight loss surgery is the most effective long-term treatment for obesity. Why? Because surgery resets the body weight “set-point” to a lower weight (see blog post Weight Loss Surgery Changes The Body Weight Set Point). Nonsurgical methods of weight loss are not effective over the long-term because they do not change the body weight set-point (see…

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Weight Loss Surgery Is Safe

By Dave Oliak | October 5, 2012
Difference between weight loss surgeons

In previous posts I’ve discussed why weight loss surgery works (Weight Loss Surgery Changes The Body Weight Set Point) and why diets don’t work (The Body Weight Set Point Prevents Weight Loss). To summarize, bariatric surgery works by changing the biologic control system that determines body weight. The biologically determined body weight “set point” is decreased.…

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