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	<title>Sasse Guide &#187; Weight Loss Surgery</title>
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	<description>Weight Loss Expert: Dr. Kent Sasse</description>
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		<title>CELEBRITIES UNDERGOING LAP-BAND WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Joining the ranks of celebrities that have disclosed they have undergone Lap-Band surgery is New York Jets coach, Rex Ryan and golf star, John Daly.  In addition, a change is beginning to take place in the urban centers of New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas wherein celebrities including entertainers, athletic personalities and politicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHEN SHOULD CHILDREN BE CONSIDERED CANDIDATES FOR WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY?</title>
		<link>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/when-should-children-be-considered-candidates-for-weight-loss-surgery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Childhood Obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight loss]]></category>
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The subject of children and adolescents potentially undergoing weight loss surgery has evolved greatly in a short number of years.  When it was initially proposed the only operations were invasive procedures such as the open Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.  With the advancements of minimally invasive surgery and laparoscopic instrumentation, there are now several minimally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8th Annual Bariatric Fashion Show A Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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This past weekend was our 8th Annual Fashion Show hosted by The Obesity Prevention  Foundation and Western Bariatric Institute.  It was a great event that allowed some of our patients to share their success with friends, family and the Reno community. It also provided us with a great opportunity to spread the word about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incisional Hernias And Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/incisional-hernias-and-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Related Medical Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many overlooked health problems related to weight gain and obesity is the problem of incisional hernias.  Incisional hernias are a common form of the broader category of ventral hernias, meaning an abnormal bulge protruding through the muscular tendinous layer of the abdominal wall.  Ventral hernias may be congenital, protruding through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Intragastric Balloon</title>
		<link>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/sleeve-gastrectomy-versus-intragastric-balloon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/sleeve-gastrectomy-versus-intragastric-balloon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weight loss research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent study by Genco and Colleagues (Surgical Endoscopy, Volume 23, pg. 1849-1853, 2009) a bariatric center compared the effectiveness of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy against the Bioenterics Intragastric Balloon (BIB) with twelve months of follow-up. 
The mean surgical time for the sleeve gastrectomy was 120 minutes.  The mean endoscopy or balloon positioning time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weight Loss Surgery for Patients With A Lower Body Mass Index</title>
		<link>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/weight-loss-surgery-for-patients-with-a-lower-body-mass-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Surgery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of preventing diseases like diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea or hypertension usually centers around behaviors such as improved eating habits and exercise, and no doubt these are highly important for preventing weight gain related conditions.  Less commonly acknowledged is that people who need to lose 40 to 60 pounds can do so successfully before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Operative Eating Behaviors: Do They Predict Weight Loss Results After Bariatric Surgery?</title>
		<link>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/pre-operative-eating-behaviors-do-they-predict-weight-loss-results-after-bariatric-surgery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the challenging questions that many of us in the bariatric surgical field struggle with is trying to identify factors among the eating behaviors of prospective patients prior to surgery that might help us predict the success a patient can expect after surgery or, even better, allow some type of intervention-such as counseling or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Behavior Or Eating Pathology: Does This Influence A Pattern Of Weight Loss After Surgery?</title>
		<link>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/eating-behavior-or-eating-pathology-does-this-influence-a-pattern-of-weight-loss-after-surgery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/eating-behavior-or-eating-pathology-does-this-influence-a-pattern-of-weight-loss-after-surgery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eating behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another interesting study (The Influence of Eating Behavior and Eating Pathology on Weight Loss After Gastric Restriction Operations, Obesity Surgery, Pg. 684; Volume 15, 2005, Ramona Burgner and Colleagues) examined whether abnormal eating behaviors including binge eating, grazing, bulimia, sweet eating and loss of control/over-eating, were all examined.  In this European study that included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Lap-Band Surgery Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/free-lap-band-surgery-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/free-lap-band-surgery-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Products]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Surgery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Free Lap-Band surgery coming in January.  As some of you may have heard, our practice has decided to offer a free Lap-Band to a patient and is holding a contest to choose the winner.  The contest will begin airing on the radio in January on Sunny 106.9.
I have agreed to donate my time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons For Weight Loss Surgery: Feeling Better, Looking Better</title>
		<link>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/reasons-for-weight-loss-surgery-feeling-better-looking-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sasseguide.com/blog/reasons-for-weight-loss-surgery-feeling-better-looking-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Loss Advice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Historically, bariatric surgeons and weight loss surgical centers have focused on the purely medical aspects of losing weight with bariatric surgery.  Fairly quickly, in the history of gastric bypass surgery and Lap-Band surgery, it became clear that major medical benefits were occurring: namely the resolution of serious obesity related diseases of diabetes, hypertension, obstructive [...]]]></description>
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