Don't Let Bad Eating Habits Sabotage Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery can produce enough weight loss to lower the risks of heart disease. However, keeping it off is hard, and those risks begin to rise as weight is regained.

Don't Let Bad Eating Habits Sabotage Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric surgery resolves many cardiovascular factors. You'll forfeit these benefits
if you pack on the pounds.

Most weight regain boils down to eating habits, researchers recently reported in the Annals of Surgery. In a study of 1,278 adults who had undergone Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, they found five of 13 eating behaviors were largely responsible for a greater-than-normal amount of weight regain.

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