Obesity has a direct impact on a number of serious health issues, but it’s also causing another serious problem for our nation: It may quadruple national healthcare costs over the next decade. Read the full story

Watch this week’s WLS News to hear an encouraging report about 50 obese teenagers who underwent Lap-Band surgery–and how their lives have changed. We’ll also tell you how probiotics can affect weight loss, share details about a possible link between teenage obesity and multiple sclerosis, and explain what a new coalition is doing to persuade Congress to provide affordable health care to the morbidly obese. All that and more on this week’s WLS News. Read the full story