PEERtrainer Launches 'Tip Of The Day' Weight Loss Coaching Newsletter
The PEERtrainer "Tip Of The Day" is a free service that delivers you one key concept each day to your inbox. Subjects covered include weight loss, nutrition, fitness, preventive health and motivation. (PRWeb Nov 22, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1652074.htm

The wider implications of GSK's weight loss petition
Filed last month with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the petition claims that although obesity is not a 'disease' in itself, it can lead to a host of conditions including diabetes and heart disease, and weight loss products should therefore carry disease claims rather than health claims.

Weight Loss Hypnosis: Lose Weight While Sleeping
Snooze and loose: that's right! There is a way to lose weight while you sleep and now, people say it's taking all the work out of dieting.  Research has shown hypnosis is generally safe and for people who are already committed to dieting, it can be helpful.

Weight Loss Surgery Helps Obese Women Have Healthier Babies
A new report suggests that women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies than do obese women who become pregnant.

Weight loss surgery helps obese women have healthier babies
Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 5:19 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 4:45 p.m. Women who become pregnant after weight-loss surgery have easier pregnancies and healthier babies than do obese women who become pregnant, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Scale Down Weight Loss To Hold Free Seminar
Scale Down Weight Loss Programs will offer a free community seminar on December 4 at The Horizon Center in downtown Spartanburg.

Isles Hand Sabres Fifth Straight Loss
Joey MacDonald made 35 saves on Saturday night in Buffalo, and the Islanders sent the reeling Sabres to their fifth straight loss with a 4-2 victory.

Study: Weight-Loss Surgery Makes for Better Pregnancy
Women who get pregnant after weight-loss surgery tend to be healthier and less likely to deliver a baby born with complications compared to obese women, researchers said on Tuesday.

Silva could be 2009's biggest loser ... in weight loss
The ERA wasn't the only thing inflated about Mariners pitcher Carlos Silva this year. His waistline grew, too, and it wasn't because of a wallet fattened by the four-year, $48 million contract the Mariners gave him last offseason.

CMS Will Not Cover Weight-Loss Surgeries For Non-Obese Diabetes Patients
CMS on Monday said that it will not cover weight-loss surgery for Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes who are not dangerously overweight because there is not ample evidence proving the procedure can improve their health, Reuters/Yahoo! News reports. Currently, Medicare and private insurers cover weight-loss surgeries, which range in cost from $15,000 to $35,000, for severely obese people.

Weight Loss Surgery Helps Fertility
New information suggests that getting gastric bypass surgery improves an obese woman's chances of having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.

Some Pregnancy-Related Complications Minimized For Women Who Have Had Weight-Loss Surgery
Women who undergo weight-loss surgery, known as bariatric surgery, and later become pregnant after losing weight may be at lower risk for pregnancy-related diabetes and high blood pressure-- complications that can seriously affect the mother or her baby--than pregnant women who are obese, according t

Hospital holds free weight-loss seminar
Lake Norman Regional Medical Center will hold a free educational seminar on surgical weight loss on Monday, Nov. 24 at 7 p.m.

Blurred vision could be sign of diabetes
Diabetes is often associated with frequent urination, constant thirst, extreme weight loss and fatigue. But one way to check for the disease is as easy as a visit to the local eye doctor.

Health buzz | Get information on weight loss
SEMINARS Get information on weight loss Conway Medical Center is offering a series of weight loss surgery seminars.

Weight loss surgery before pregnancy may benefit both mother and child
Washington, Nov 19 : A new study ha revealed that obese women who have weight loss surgery before becoming pregnant have a lower risk of pregnancy-related health problems and their children are less likely to be born with complications.

Weight loss surgery may help obese women avoid pregnancy-related health complications
Obese women who have weight loss surgery before becoming pregnant have a lower risk of pregnancy-related health problems and their children are less likely to be born with complications, according to a new study.

Forget fitness gyms and diets - we've WALKED off a stone
Meet three people who prove that one hour a day of the simplest exercise can lead to weight loss, without changing diet.

Adderall Dangers: Not for Weight Loss
It's a pill that is one of the most hustled drugs on the internet simply because people in Hollywood say it makes them stay thin. Now, college and high school students say it's working for them too. But doctors say there could be a dangerous price to pay.

Anthony Alessi: Weight-loss ingredient can be detrimental
What do actresses Joan Collins, Melanie Griffith and Beverly Johnson have in common with at least six NFL players? They all take the same weight-loss supplement.