Bariatric surgery is a powerful weight-loss tool that requires substantial diet and lifestyle changes after the operation. Ensuring enough nutrition can be challenging, with reduced stomach size ...

Very rarely, you may not lose weight after gastric bypass. But you’re more likely to lose weight and keep it off when you stick to regular exercise and eat a balanced, nutritious diet.

Bariatric surgery can be a good option for people with obesity who’ve struggled to lose weight with diet and exercise alone, including people who repeatedly regain the weight they do lose.

Bariatric surgeries: These are operations that remove or bypass part of the stomach for the purpose of losing weight and ...

“Diet and exercise do not work for the vast majority of people,” said Dr. Christine Ren-Fielding, the chief of bariatric surgery at NYU Langone Health and surgical director of NYU Langone’s ...

The West Philadelphia resident has lost 150 pounds since this time last year, dropping from 430 to about 280 pounds with the help of bariatric surgery and the revamping of her diet and lifestyle.