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Filter by:This is a prospective chart review/data collection study of natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) for sleeve gastrectomy, that will include questionnaires administered throughout the study. Subjects enrolled will be those intending to have a transvaginal NOTES sleeve gastrectomy. Data will be collected and reviewed through 12 months post-op.
Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy has been shown to significantly reduce weight and has been approved as a treatment of morbid obesity. The standard laparoscopic operation requires five small incisions for the introduction of instruments and the band into the patient's abdomen. The investigators have developed a technique for performing this operation through a single incision at the belly button. This study compares this method to the conventional 5-incision approach.
The aim of this study is to find out the safety and efficacy of Laparoscopic Greater Curvature Plication (LGCP) procedure. This study procedure is an alternative restrictive weight loss surgery that has the potential to reduce the complications associated with gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy by creating a small sized stomach without the use of an implant and without cutting stomach.
The aim of this study is to investigate whether the supplementation of a medically supervised weight management program with a novel fibre supplement, improves body weight, body composition, and laboratory measurements in overweight and obese individuals. All subjects will participate in the medical weight management program however the intervention group will have 5 grams of a novel fibre supplemented to each meal while the control group will not.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new educational program for people who have recently had gastric bypass surgery. This program involves both the use of newly developed wireless home monitoring technology (medication box, weight scale, and pedometer) and telephone-based, individually tailored health counseling with a bariatric dietician.
The purpose of this clinical trial is to study the therapeutic effect of black cumin water extract (Nigella sativa L.) on obesity and overweight
- Objectives Taking a 'whole foods' approach, we will investigate (i) whether consumption of isocaloric diets containing ≥4 vs. ≤1 servings of dairy products per day for 16 weeks results in greater body fat loss in energy-restricted overweight/obese premenopausal women; (ii) the role of dairy product consumption in influencing physiological and metabolic factors which may precede or accompany changes in body composition, including in enzymes which synthesize and break down body fat; and (iii) factors, including obesity phenotype, which may influence the response of body composition to dairy product consumption. - Background With the obesity epidemic showing no signs of abating, there is ongoing interest, both at the lay public and scientific levels, in manipulating the diet to promote weight, specifically fat, loss. One such promising manipulation is an increase in, or perhaps more precisely, an isocaloric substitution of, dairy product consumption. The inverse association between Body Mass Index (BMI) and dietary calcium - for which dairy products are the main source - was first described in 1984 and has since been supported by various levels of evidence, but not consistently. Heaney recently described this literature as "confused," which he and Rafferty attribute to important limitations in study design, including lack of low-calcium contrast groups and the fact that body weight/body composition is often a secondary endpoint in studies designed and powered for a different outcome, typically bone health or blood pressure. Confusion has also arisen from the investigation of different interventions (dairy products, dairy calcium, dietary calcium, supplemental calcium), making it difficult to compare and interpret studies. This creates an opportunity for the proposed Dairy and Weight Loss (DAWL) study, with its focus on whole dairy product consumption, to help clear up the confusion surrounding this issue. **Hypotheses Overweight/obese, low habitual dairy consuming, premenopausal women randomized to an energy-restricted weight loss diet containing ≥4 servings/day of dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheese) for 16 weeks will lose more body fat than those randomized to an isocaloric diet containing ≤1 servings/day of dairy products.
Obesity does not respond to high circulating levels of the hormone leptin. This study is aiming at finding out why this happens and open new avenues for treatment of obesity.
The goal of the this study is to create an interdisciplinary program which includes intervention in the fields of nutrition, physical activity and behavior in order to treat obesity and overweight among kindergarten children and to examine the influence of such program on the BMI,BMI%, physical fitness, knowledge and preferences in the said fields among the participants.
The aim of the study is to prospectively compare the effectiveness of diverse incentives on physical activity behaviour, in a cohort of newly-enrolled, adult members of the Vitality health promotion programme based in South Africa.