Diabetes patients need weight loss surgery

Clinicians need to consider weight-loss surgery as a course of action against the biggest epidemics in human history, obesity and Type 2 diabetes, the International Diabetes Foundation says. Bariatric surgery…

Diabetes Group Urges Surgery as Treatment Option

Bariatric surgery should be considered as a treatment for diabetes, according to new recommendations issued by the International Diabetes Federation. The guidance echoes the clinical guidelines of the American Diabetes…

OBESITY IN CHILDHOOD-MAJOR SETBACK

  I T HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED THAT CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN INDIA IS GR OWING FAST. THIS IS PROBABLY DUE TO THRIFTY GENE HYPOTHESIS. THE COMPOSITION OF FAT AND MUSCLE MASS…

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