In the July 24, 2009 edition of WLS News, find out whether germs in your mouth could make you fat, why the South has the highest obesity rates in America, and why doctors have changed their tune about using weight loss surgery to cure sleep apnea. Plus, learn whether getting married means saying “I do” to weight gain, and how the battle of the bulge is affecting the economy on the West Coast.
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Organizations mentioned in this episode:
- Trust for America’s Health
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- U.S. Census Bureau
- University of South Carolina
- California Center for Public Health Advocacy
- Forsyth Institute
- State University of Campinas
- Bariatric Girl (Yvonne McCarthy’s WLS blog)
- Talk to Tiff (WLS blog)
- American Journal of Medicine
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- National Institutes of Health
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
July 24th, 2009 at 9:28 am
I contributed to those statistics for 30 years (in Louisiana) and have many cousins in Mississippi. I’m sure the poverty situation also makes it more difficult because you don’t exactly go for regular checkups and that means you don’t have a doc that stays on you about your weight. Of course when you live in a place where 1 in 3 are obese, you don’t particularly stand out as much as you would in a place like Colorado so I would think that would cut down on motivaiton as well. The food is a problem as well…a lot of people do raise their own veggies but when you cook collard greens and you put tons of bacon and bacon fat in them….WOWWIE WOW WOW are they good…just not good for you. I’ll go back to my own little world now and try to improve that! Awesome job Leslie as usual!
July 25th, 2009 at 10:31 am
I believe this is the best “WLS News” segment yet–but I say that EVERY week-don’t I???