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    The fight against fat

    A leading US cardiologist and preventive medicine expert finds in joint research with Israelis that bariatric surgery is safe and preferred for the morbidly obese.

  • Doctors perform surgery [illustrative].

    Israeli-American study: Bariatric surgery patients live longer

    The researchwas recently published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

  • scale

    Your scale isn’t giving you the whole picture

    “We learned in this trial that moderate, but persistent weight loss may have dramatic beneficial effects on fat deposits related to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases,” Shai explained.

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