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Is Gastric Bypass All About Weight?

By on June 22, 2011

I’ve written frequently about the stigma that goes with being obese and choosing to have gastric bypass or bariatric surgery. I have to admit there was a time in my distant path when I looked at it as the easy way out. It was what people did if they didn’t want to work at losing ...read more

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Gastric Bypass Life Insurance Underwriting!

By on March 20, 2011

Let’s face it. Obesity has long had a stigma all its’ own. After all, as the stigma goes, no one held them down and fed them until they were morbidly obese! Lack of self control!! Why don’t they just go on a diet and get off their rears and get some exercise?? And then when ...read more

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Why Wouldn’t You Have A Gastric Bypass?

By on December 22, 2010

Obesity! Obesity! OBESITY! That’s kind of the way our country has been going over the past 20-30 years. I remember growing up in Wyoming and, as rude as I may have been, really staring at morbidly obese people. They were just that rare. I get asked fairly often why life insurance companies rate people because ...read more

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Biggest Loser Again Takes On Obesity!

By on January 18, 2010

The NBC reality show Biggest Loser has kicked off another season and another chance to drive home to our country just how out of control obesity is and, well, how much work it takes to overcome it once you’ve lost control. I haven’t watched the show since I followed an entire series in my blog ...read more

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