Surgery trounces diet and exercise for treating obesity and its ills
16 at a nearby Defense Department training area, and that the blaze “was started as a result of live ordnance exercises” at the army range, the Rural Fire Service said in a statement. The fire has burned 180 square miles and destroyed several houses, but no injuries or deaths have been reported in the blaze. It was downgraded from the highest emergency category on Wednesday. The Defense Department declined to comment on the investigators’ findings, but had earlier confirmed that an explosive ordnance training exercise was conducted Oct.
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They were 22 times more likely to see their Type 2 diabetes abate and almost 2 1/2 times more likely to show improvements in signs of metabolic syndrome (a cluster of measures, including abdominal obesity, high fasting blood sugar, hypertension , high triglycerides and low levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol). Clinical trial subjects who were asked to rate their quality of life after bariatric surgery generally reported greater improvement than those who participated in nonsurgical weight loss programs, although these findings were more muted than those focused on easier-to-measure outcomes. When the adverse side effects of the two treatments were compared, diet and exercise programs looked a little better: Subjects in nonsurgical weight-loss programs didn’t have the re-operations that were necessary for a sizable minority of bariatric surgery patients, or the postoperative pneumonia that afflicted a very small number of those who got surgery. But they were more likely to become depressed, more likely to have inflammation of the gallbladder, and about as likely to develop iron -deficiency anemia.
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