Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

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• The chubby girl from Ipanema? Brazil puts on weight (Reuters)
• Concerns as obesity surgery soars in Britain (AFP)
• Surgery for obesity increases 10-fold in England (Reuters)
• French diet guru Montignac dies at 66 (AFP)

The chubby girl from Ipanema? Brazil puts on weight (Reuters) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 08:48 AM PDT Reuters - Brazilians' waistlines are bulging, belying the country's image as a place of buff sun worshipers and lithe soccer players.

Concerns as obesity surgery soars in Britain (AFP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 04:30 AM PDT AFP - British health campaigners warned Friday that surgery was being seen as an easy option to tackle obesity after new figures showed weight-loss operations have soared here in the past five years.

Surgery for obesity increases 10-fold in England (Reuters) Posted: 26 Aug 2010 06:14 PM PDT Reuters - Use of weight-loss surgery has increased 10-fold in hospitals in England since 2000 and those who have gastric bands fitted can reduce their risk of early death and cut health service costs, scientists said on Friday.

French diet guru Montignac dies at 66 (AFP) Posted: 26 Aug 2010 10:46 AM PDT AFP - Michel Montignac, author of worldwide best-sellers on weight loss in the 1980s and 1990s, has died aged 66, French officials said Thursday.

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