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  • Emeritus Director, Centre for Obesity Research & Education & Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Monash University
Obese people undergoing gastric banding surgery typically lose up to half of their excess body weight and go on to live more healthy lives. Stocky Bodies

Lap banding a long‑term obesity solution: study

Charis Palmer, The Conversation

Lap band surgery is an effective long-term measure for managing obesity, according to a 15-year study of thousands of patients who have undergone the procedure. The study, from Monash University’s Centre…
Keeping weight off is much harder than losing weight in the first instance. AAP

Weighing up the options on obesity

Michael Cowley, Monash University; Paul O'Brien, Monash University, and Wendy A. Brown, Monash University

Prevention is the cornerstone of society’s response to the current obesity epidemic. But even if no more people were to gain much more weight, those who are already obese face serious health problems…

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