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Weight Loss Surgery Channel
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The Weight Loss Surgery Channel is the world's first television network for the weight loss surgery community, providing information, encouragement and support around the clock for pre- and post-op bariatric patients. Video programming and articles about the gastric bypass, Lap-Band®, Realize™ Band, gastric sleeve and duodenal switch are available online 24 hours a day for viewers who are considering bariatric surgery, as well as those who have already had weight loss surgery, their family members, friends and healthcare providers
Recent Posts
Weight Loss Surgery Patients Prepare for Vegas Marathon
Weight loss surgery patients from the Gastric Band Institute in Las Vegas are gearing up for this weekend’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. Learn the secrets to their training regimen in this report from WLS News. This weekend, a grou...
Weight Loss Surgery News – December 4, 2009
Check out this week’s WLS News to learn the effect our nation’s obesity epidemic could have on health care costs by the year 2018. Doctors are doing the math and the answer isn’t pretty. Plus, we’ll tell you how men can reduce the...
Weight Loss Surgery Leaves Heather Padgett Shy…of 135 Pounds
Weight loss surgery was a game-changer for Heather Padgett, who was depressed at 300 pounds before undergoing an operation that’s left her 165 pounds lighter. When I was in fourth or fifth grade, I began to realize that I was bigger than most o...
Quick and Easy Recipes Make Breakfast a Breeze
Quick and easy recipes for breakfast can still be healthy, and even fun to make. In the latest episode of Eating Right Every Bite, Chef Dave demonstrates four pouch-friendly recipes that are perfect for post-op weight loss surgery patients, or anyone...
Probiotics Can Help Gastric Bypass Patients
Research shows that some post-operative gastric bypass surgery patients suffer a deficiency of vitamin B-12. But according to experiments at Stanford University School of Medicine, using probiotics may solve this problem – and help them lose more w...
Shape Up America! Sends ‘Open Letter to Congress’
Shape Up America! sent an “Open Letter to Congress” in hopes to further the fight against morbidity related to obesity. Watch this week’s WLS News to find out more. Fifteen years ago, former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop assembled a coal...

