Obesity is second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death in the U.S.
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| By: Robert E. Brolin, M.D. in Collaboration with Gloria N. Beck, Special to The Packet |
October 07, 2005 |
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Last year, about 140,000 people in the United States had weight-loss surgery
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| Surgery to treat severe obesity received a great deal of press in the late '90s and early '00s when celebr |
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