From Fort Sanders Regional Health & Lifestyles In the last 18 months, Debra Hinson, 50, has lost nearly 100 pounds. The Sevierville resident said she has revamped not only her body, but her mind and spirit as well. “I have been on every diet that you can possibly...
Moments of joy can come from the strangest of circumstances. Lori Rogers’ laundry is a perfect example. She was going about the mundane task of folding clothes when she stopped to look at a pair of her shorts. She held them up, and that’s when she got that little...
In June, the nation’s largest group of physicians, the American Medical Association, voted to recognize obesity as a disease. The decision could have broad implications for the approximately 90 million Americans who are considered obese. When you label something as a...
It’s not a new notion that bariatric surgery, especially gastric bypass, often puts patients’ diabetes into remission. It’s something that weight loss surgeons have long known by witnessing the phenomenon in their own patients. Of the than 1,700 bariatric procedures...
