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Does Weight Impact Your Cancer Risk?
Decrease your chances of cancer by dropping those extra pounds. Turning a blind eye to your extra pounds may cause more problems than you realize. Losing weight is about more than looking good at the...
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Have You Been to an Information Session?
Trying to decide the next step toward your weight-loss goals? Stop by JFK for an information session! The decision to seek medical weight-loss options should not be made all at once. This is a big...
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How to Find 30 Minutes a Day for Exercise
The biggest hurdle to starting an exercise routine is finding the time. No matter how busy you are, you can find time for exercise if you're really dedicated to your health. You just need to find the...
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Is 2013 Your Year for Weight Loss Surgery?
If your new year's resolution is to lose some weight, JFK can help! As 2012 wraps up its final weeks, many people are looking ahead to the future and listing their goals, dreams, and aspirations for...
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Signs You May Be a Candidate for Weight Loss Surgery
Find out if one of our bariatric procedures is in your future! Sometimes weight loss can be trickier than you expect. If your personal attempts have yielded no results, you still have options....
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Tips to Help You Stick to Your Diet
2013 can be the year you finally stick to a diet until it works! Does your list of New Year's resolutions include some dieting goals? These promises are often the first to get broken. You may need a...
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Five Steps to Take Before Weight Loss Surgery
If you are considering a weight loss procedure, these steps can prepare you for the lifestyle changes ahead of you. Deciding to undergo a bariatric surgery is a big step toward better health, but it...
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How Losing Weight Can Benefit Your Heart
Do your heart a favor this February. It's time to get serious about your weight loss goals! Losing weight is the one of the best moves you can make – not only for your appearance and body image, but...
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Questions to Ask About Surgical Weight Loss
Weight-loss surgery is not a quick fix but a life-long commitment to a healthy lifestyle. Doctors generally recommend this surgery only for people who have a body-mass index (BMI) of 40 or more,...
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Getting Nutrition You Need After Weight-Loss Surgery
Weight-loss surgery requires lifelong changes in your eating habits to keep off the pounds — and to ensure that your body gets the nutrition it needs. March is National Nutrition Month, and a great...
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What to Do When Weight Loss Plateaus
If you’ve been losing weight but lately the pounds won’t budge, you’ve hit a plateau — a predictable but frustrating part of the journey. Weight loss plateaus when your daily calorie intake is close...
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Does Eating at Night Make You Gain Weight?
Eating after dark can wreak havoc on your waistline. For years, dieters have heard that eating after 8pm causes weight gain, for a variety of reasons. Last year, researchers suggested a scientific...
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Could Alcohol Hurt Your Weight Loss?
We’ve all heard about the health benefits a glass of red wine offers, but having more than one to two drinks a few times per week can make you gain, not lose, weight. Because April is Alcohol...
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Signs Your Child Could Become Obese
It's not easy to identify whether a child’s weight is problematic; find out what you should be looking for. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Dietary Changes Your Entire Family Can Embrace
Get the whole family on the healthy track with these simple dietary changes. Sometimes the road to a healthy lifestyle (and smaller waistline) is paved with little changes. The best way to make those...
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How a Support Group Can Help Weight Loss
When it comes to weight loss, doing it alone may not be the best plan of action. Weight-loss, whether through diet and exercise alone or through bariatric surgery, is a life-changing venture. Like any...
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Can Green Tea Help You Lose Weight?
Truth or gimmick? Learn more about the effect of green tea on your weight loss. Anyone who wants to lose weight has seen the gimmicks. "Take a pill and lose weight or drink a shake and drop 10...
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Top 3 Myths of Weight Loss Surgery
Debunk the myths and learn the facts of weight-loss surgery The decision to undergo weight-loss, or bariatric, surgery is major and life-changing. Such a decision first requires research of the facts....
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What to Expect from Your Gastrectomy
Learn more about this weight-loss surgery option. You've made the decision to have weight-loss surgery. With the advisement of your doctor, you will undergo vertical sleeve gastrectomy, which is a...
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