Almost 250,000 patients undergo obesity surgery in the US each year. One of the disturbing complications from resulting malnutrition is thinning of the bones (osteoporosis). Calcium supplements are not enough to avoid this complication. We believe that most patients can lose weight by reducing calories, or changing to a low carb diet, or discovering and avoiding food allergies. Sometimes, however, a patient will do all these things and still will not lose weight. The best program for those might be working with an experimental protocol coupling a very low calorie diet with HCG injections. Read the FDA warning before you consider the latter approach, because HCG is an off-label use that has not been proven effective.
See Associated Press article click here, June 16, 2009 or connect to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (click here) or to the ongoing research being conducted by Dr. Shonni Joy Silverberg at Columbia University Medical School (click here)
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