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Al’s fit club: Roker on 115-pound loss

As Al Roker Sr. was dying of cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, his eldest son, the famous television personality, would visit him every morning on his way to work on TODAY, where he was known far and wide — mostly wide — as “the funny, fat weatherman.”

Supermodel’s daughter details 170-pound loss

Her father is Spencer Haywood, a former Olympic basketball player and a legendary scorer in the NBA. Her mother is a supermodel so famous she needs only one name: Iman.

Call for more obesity surgery to cut benefits and NHS bills

Report urges increase in gastric bypass ops as tens of thousands of patients 'missing out' The extremely low availability of surgery to correct obesity is leading over the long term to the expenditure of hundreds of millions of pounds in benefit payments and costs to the NHS, a report says. Not offering a gastric bypass or gastric band surgery to people who are extremely overweight means that ...

Resident Hall Coordinator sheds pounds through gastric bypass surgery

By: Ann Compton Kibler, the resident hall coordinator for Honors Hall, once topped the scales at 520 pounds before deciding to have the weight loss surgery on June 3, 2009. ...

Report says obesity surgery can save health costs

Providing surgical treatment for people who are morbidly obese could save British taxpayer-funded health services and the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year, leading surgeons said on Wednesday.