Thinking about weight loss surgery?
A gastric band can be helpful in reducing the amount of food someone eats, thereby contributing significantly to weight loss. The procedure is normally carried out using keyhole surgery, with a …

Hello, I’m Doctor Fatemeh and I’m a physiotherapist and spinal-tap specialist based on Harley Street.
Most sufferers try and get by with spinal problems for years – making their situation worse; this is especially prominent among …

Lap-Band surgery is not the type of procedure one might expect to be covered by worker’s compensation. But, an Indiana pizza shop is being forced to pay for a worker’s weight loss surgery in addition …

Follow the story of  Wendy Carpenter who will be undergoing gastric bypass surgery at Vita Clinics next month in June 2009.
Here’s her story…

Between us, my husband Barry and I weighed almost 50 stone. Barry …

Last week, I settled down for a lazy midweek evening in front of the TV and scanned the channels to consider my choices.
On BBC1, there was a documentary called Fix My Fat Head, a video …

Tense, aching muscles are an all too common side-effect of the daily grind. A soothing, relaxing massage sounds like just the thing to smooth away those pent-up tensions.
Yet for most people in busy offices and …

The gastric bandits: How women risk weight-loss surgery abroad because they’re not fat enough to have it here.
Jilly Trela and I first met in a Bristol tea room. The Victoria sponge looked quite tempting and …

Fern Britton is to appear on the BBC’s Question Time.
The popular TV host – who has recently slimmed down after being at the centre of a row when it was disclosed she’d had a gastric …

Television presenter Fern Britton has caused controversy after it was revealed that her recent weight loss followed a gastric band operation, and was not simply down to dieting and exercise.
But how does a gastric band …

A reduction in the time people spend asleep could partly account for soaring obesity rates, a study has revealed.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that hormonal changes caused by lack of sleep could …

An inability to reduce her weight of almost 16st without immediately putting the pounds back on led Anne Diamond to seek bariatric surgery “as a last resort”.
The former television presenter, now patron of the National …

LAST-DITCH operations to save morbidly obese Scots from eating themselves to death have quadrupled in just four years, it has been revealed.
State-funded operations for weight-loss surgery such as gastric bands and stomach reductions are increasing …