American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

Feel Empowered to Say “No”

Written by: Kate Rountree, RDN and Genna Hymowitz, PhD, FASMBS_IH, FTOS You have worked very hard to establish healthy habits that you can maintain for a lifetime. No matter how skilled we become with these habits, there will always be challenges that arise from time to time. Some of these challenges are related to our [...]

By |2025-03-07T12:36:31-05:00March 7th, 2025|American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Newsletter|Comments Off on Feel Empowered to Say “No”

Mindful Eating this Holiday Season

Written by: Kate Rountree, RDN The holiday season can be a difficult time to find the right balance of making mindful, healthy behavioral choices while still participating in social event with friends and family. However, this is not impossible and including your family and friends in your health journey is key! Follow along to see [...]

By |2025-03-07T12:37:11-05:00December 11th, 2024|American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Newsletter|Comments Off on Mindful Eating this Holiday Season

Educating About the Dangers of Obesity

Research has shown that for morbidly obese individuals, sustainable weight loss is very difficult and usually impossible to achieve through traditional diet and exercise methods. This is something that is often difficult for the other family members & friends to understand if they do not have the same struggle with excess weight. If you are [...]

How Obesity Surgery Helps People Reclaim Their Lives

It Starts Today - How obesity surgery helps people reclaim their lives from ASMBS on Vimeo. ASMBS Patient Learning Center The ASMBS Patient Learning Center is a user-friendly resource that provided information about bariatric surgery. There are 14 sections guiding users through every aspect of surgery, from Bariatric Surgery FAQs, to Making Choices About Surgeons, Bariatric Surgery [...]

Benefits of Having an OMS in a Bariatric Surgical Practice

Introducing…The Obesity Medicine Specialist: Who are they and what do they do? Obesity is at an all time high. Its effects are wide spread across our nation and the world. The costs of obesity are staggering. It truly is a problem that requires all of our attention. Management of obesity is tailored to a patient’s [...]

Bariatric Surgery: Not the Easy Way Out for the Obese Individual

Clinically severe, or morbid obesity has become an epidemic in our country and in several nations around the world. Obesity is a measured by body mass index; a formula of your height to weight. It is a genetically based, behaviorally and environmentally influenced, chronic and progressive disease of fat storage that is linked to numerous [...]