Interesting Article?

October 16, 2001

I picked this up from the AMOS site.

Interesting quote:

>The findings show that " obese patients have unrealistic goals

> for weight loss, " lead study author Dr. D. of the

> University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia,

> told Reuters Health. " Their expectations cannot be met by

> nonsurgical treatments. "

That's all fine and good, but then the article goes on to say that

" patients undergoing surgery as an obesity treatment could

expect to lose 27% of their body weight... " ????

This is a news article summarizing an article in Archives of

Internal Medicine 2001;161:2133-2139, but I can't get a copy

here. Has anyone else gotten this recent article? maybe?

I'm curious as to which surgeries were studied. Of course, 27%

of my total body weight is a heck of a lot more than 27% of

excess weight, so it isn't totally off-base, but I'm still curious.

-maria

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