Host Leslie Thompson presents new research and human interest stories related to the treatment of obesity each week on WLS News!
In the January 30, 2009, newscast, learn about a new weight loss treatment that doesn’t require surgery, find out how looking at DNA in children can forecast future obesity, discover what the Army is doing about overweight recruits, and hear why one man was told he was too fat to be a dad. Plus, we’ll have a special report from the Texas Weight Loss Surgery Summit, and WLS Journeys host Yvonne McCarthy will highlight one of her top picks for finding WLS information and support online in our weekly feature, “WLS on the World Wide Web”.
Organizations mentioned in this week’s news:
- Sentinel Group, LLC (makers of the Full Sense Device)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Imperial College London
- French National Research Institute (CNRS)
- Nature Genetics (medical journal)
- U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command
- Bariatric Girl (Yvonne McCarthy’s WLS support site)
- Chef Dave (WLS articles and recipes)
- Texas Association for Bariatric Surgery (TABS)
- Dr. Lloyd Stegemann (New Dimensions Weight Loss Surgery)
- National Council for Adoption
- Bariatric Advantage (nutritional supplements)
January 30th, 2009 at 7:41 am
AWESOME Sgt. Leslie! I mean YES SIR. Great job as always!
January 30th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I am intrigued by the Full Sense.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Leslie looks HOT in fatigues! Watch out enemy insurgents!
January 30th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Woo babe Les. Hot bod and hot attitude in those army fatigues.
Well done WLS Channel on another full of variety, different styles of presentation, and interesting news. Sooo professionally put together.
Leslie must be quite someone to be able to speak so well/remember lines etc for such a presentation. Its quite a skill.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
GREAT G.I. Jane reporting!
About “Too Fat to Be a Dad,” the ratio of children needing adoptive homes to parents willing to provide those homes is so high that to disqualify a home because one parent is morbidly obese is a crying shame!