We often hear people comment that the ‘First impression is the best impression’, i.e. the person who displays the best self-image makes the best impression. Competition rules today’s world and people have realized the importance of self-improvement. This improvement can be for social or professional reasons. Self-improvement means overall improvement in the personality. Cosmetic surgery [...]

Gastric bypass is a medical phrase that you have probably heard many times before and in fact describes a number of similar forms of weight loss surgical procedures. Plenty of individuals who have benefited from this surgical procedure, including famous persons, are extremely happy by this weight loss method. Still, before you determine it is [...]

This is the second part of Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank’s videos on how vaser liposuction is performed and what to expect if you are having this procedure.   Lipsosuctions can be performed with a small sterile probe that is easier and more advanced than the old methods. Dr. Frank can perform a lipo such as [...]

Schools and daycare centers should almost be considered Ground Zero when it comes to lice. Head lice, those pesky little white bugs that seem to make their way to your child’s head every so often will probably return soon. The reason is that the lice problem continues to be a growing issue in many of [...]

Why do we continue to support an industry that delivers no more than a 5% long-term success rate? How about because the $30 billion dollar weight loss industry is selling what we want, namely promises of instant, easy and quick weight reduction. That reason is we expect weight loss to be like everything else in [...]

Bariatric Surgery Things You Should Be Aware Of When all other measures fail to control morbid obesity, weight loss surgery is a source of hope to the overweight. American doctors perform weight loss surgery over 140,000 times a year. The oldest form of weight loss surgery is the most familiar, stomach stapling. In this 30-year-old [...]

Fasting, or more accurately starving yourself to lose weight can produce very fast weight loss. The problem with this and so many other weight loss plans is that sooner or later you need to go back to managing your own food. Understand that any type of quick weight loss that takes you out of your [...]

Since the dawn of modern technology, people have discovered so many solutions to every existent problem there is. These past few decades, one of the industries that have benefited from the wonders of medical science is the beauty industry. Evident in the emergence of various ways of beauty enhancement, more and more people today find [...]

With obesity continuing to increase in the West obesity surgery is becoming an everyday and routine type of surgery in most medical facilities. The sleeve gastrectomy is a restrictive method of weight loss surgery in which in the region of 85 percent of the stomach is surgically removed leaving a sleeve shaped stomach with a [...]

Anybody considering lap band surgery will probably have a long list of questions and quite high up on that list is going to be the question of price. Sadly, while this might appear to be an easy question, it is not all that easy to answer. The price of having lap band weight loss surgery [...]