Gastric bypass decreases your stomach size and changes the way your body digests food. After surgery, you’ll likely need to make dietary changes to help your body heal and to get the nutrients ...

One gastric bypass patient traded in her food addiction for a vice just as dangerous. Marcy Rosenzweig Leavitt, a therapist from Beverly Hills, Calif., ...

“The hope is that one day we can bypass the bypass.” This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature . The article was first published on July 25, 2013.

Obese patients can lose over 50 percent of their body weight following gastric bypass surgery, ... The new, tiny stomach holds less, so patients feel satiated with a much smaller amount of food.

Changes in neural activity may help explain why gastric bypass is so effective. ... along with reduced meal size and a preference for less fatty food. ... innovations and ideas shaping our world ...

The study involved 544 obese adults, most in their mid-40s, including 249 who had laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery. About two years after the start of the study, gastrointestinal complaints ...

Gastric Bypass Surgery: Appetite Drop, Food Aversion Common Afterward. Marlene Busko. April 25, 2014. Following gastric-bypass surgery, almost all patients will have a smaller appetite, ...