Military recruits are increasingly rejected for the armed forces because they are overweight or obese, putting America’s national defense at risk. Read the full story

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)