Title: Weight-Loss Surgery May Bring Long-Term Benefits to Very Obese Teens
Category: Health News
Created: 11/6/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/9/2015 12:00:00 AM

What’s considered a normal weight for adults is often based on a measurement known as body mass index (BMI), which assesses weight relative to height. The found that men with a normal BMI but central obesity, the clinical term for belly fat, had twice the mortality risk of men who were overweight or obese according to BMI. Normal weight women with belly fat, meanwhile, had a 32 percent higher mortality risk than obese women without excess pounds around the middle.

Many African Americans with uncontrolled hypertension do not have recommended food categories in their homes and are not having adequate discussions with their doctors about diet.

I have done battle with depression my whole life. Despair and lethargy have left me hopeless. The first time a doctor suggested medication, she did so with a caveat: The pills — in my case, Prozac — might cause me to gain weight and could make it hard to have an orgasm, standard warnings with many antidepressants. “So I’ll be fat and…