Klein’s team compared 11 gastric bypass surgery patients who had diabetes with 11 others who had diabetes and achieved equivalent weight loss with diet alone. The average age of patients in the diet group was about 55, while the average in the surgery group was 49. Those in...
“People tend to think that they will gain more weight over the holidays than they actually do, but the weight they do gain will compound over time if they don’t lose it,” saysChristina Badaracco, RD, a Washington, DC–based registered dietitian. Indeed, previous research has found that...