As part of an unusual weight-loss program based on traditional therapies and treatments, three morbidly obese Americans made the big move to China in hope to drop their excess pounds. The three men, Alonzo Bland, 33, and brothers Walt, 56, and David Anderson, 50, moved to the northern Chinese city of...

Briton’s fattest teenager has undergone a gastric bypass (What is a gastric bypass operation? Click here to find out more) operation which saved her life by helping her shed 24 stone (476 lbs). Malissa Jones, now 18, weighed a staggering 34 stone when she was 16. She admits to constantly gorging on...

How fat is our nation? The US has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world, but our nation is not the only one suffering from the fast foods and lack of exercise that cause obesity and the surrounding health issues. A journalist for the UK’s Guardian Newspaper and social affairs correspondent...

Former “View” co-host Star Jones Reynolds has been hot topic for the press ever since she lost 160 pounds over three years as a result of a dramatic weight loss surgery performed back in 2003. During this time Star Jones kept her surgery under wraps, only admitting to having undergone a...

Lap Band surgery is a minimally invasive procedure used to combat morbid obesity. The surgery involves placing a prosthesis lap band around the stomach. The lap band sits around the top of stomach to create a smaller gastric pouch, providing the similar function as a belt. The band is also connected to an...

Despite their recent ordeal over the past 3 years, Lisa Bendle, 24, and her sister Ruth, 22 still have some agonizing decisions to make. The sisters from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, made medical history last year when they both had live saving operations to remove their stomachs, on the same day in the...

A toddler has had pioneering surgery to correct the flow of blood of blood in his body. Alec Hutchinson, three, was born with Congenitally Corrected Transposition, an extremely rare condition which caused his heart pumped blood the wrong way around his body. In sufferers, the artery taking oxygenated blood...

Caffeine is the most widely used stimulant in the world. Some choose to consume caffeine because they ‘acquired a taste’ for it, others (like myself for example) only choose to drink coffee it when they wish to fight off sleep. There are a number of tips to help you get optimally wired when...

The human body is one of the most incredible organisms in the known universe, that awesomeness carries some pretty weird and hard-to-explain baggage. The topic of many dinner parties and social gatherings, these body mysteries often draw a little laugh and then get left unexplained. So what are the top 5...

A breakthrough development has enabled microcircuits to be embedded into a contact lens. Most advances in retinal implants concentrate on restoring sight, that’s why this bionic contact lens, developed by a team of researchers at the University of Washington, is one of a kind. The contact assembled...