When you undergo gastric bypass, a common weight-loss surgery, your stomach loses about 80% of its size, and there are changes in your small intestine. Now, you have to be more strategic about what -- ...

Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) is one of the options available to some people to help with excess body weight.

My turning point started when I woke up and was struggling to fit into my favorite shirt. The 2XL wasn’t fitting me, the 3XL was getting tight, and I was looking at 4XL shirts, trying to convince ...

My name is Myla Rose (@thatsmylar0se), and I’m 36. I live in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and I’m a health care worker and mom. After giving birth to my third child, I had gastric bypass surgery and ...

It may be the special diet adopted by gastric bypass patients, not the surgery itself, that results in many of the biggest benefits associated with the weight loss procedure, according to a new study.

Karalene Aday tried everything to lose weight, from gastric bypass to trendy diets, but it took a special combination to help ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Roux-en-Y gastric bypass reduced atherogenic blood lipids at 6 weeks, while lipids remained stable with a very ...

In many studies, bariatric surgery has been highlighted as an almost magical method for weight loss and reversing type 2 diabetes. One question that has remained largely unanswered is how the effect ...

Understanding how gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Gastric bypass surgery plus a very low-energy diet reduced lipid levels more than a very low-energy diet alone ...

Bariatric surgery leads to more weight loss that lasts longer, compared to drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy and behavioral changes such as diet and exercise, new ...