Fighting Weight: How I Achieved Healthy Weight Loss with "Banding," a New Procedure That Eliminates Hunger--Forever - Couverture rigide

Ali, Khaliah; Fielding, Dr. George; Ren, Dr. Christine; Lindner, Lawrence

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0061170941 ISBN 13 : 9780061170942

Editeur : William Morrow, 2007

Synopsis

"It was more than that I had kissed away my twenties and was miserable. I couldn't be naked with anybody, couldn't wear a backless dress, couldn't go to the beach—all the things a person should be able to do."

hen Muhammad Ali's daughter Khaliah hit 325 pounds, she didn't need to be told again that she was morbidly obese. A lifetime of dieting, of starving, had not helped. She thought about gastric bypass surgery but couldn't pursue it after reading the statistic that as many as one in twenty-five people suffers complications, and sometimes death, from the operation. She could not afford to risk leaving her young son without a mother.

Miserable, depressed, and unable to walk up a flight of stairs without losing her breath, she did not know which way to turn—until a friend pointed her toward a new type of surgery called gastric banding. It is just as effective as gastric bypass with a fraction of potential complications. With the band placed around her stomach and completely taking away her hunger, Khaliah slimmed down to half her former size.

The band she used has been the surgical option of choice in Europe for more than a decade but is only just now arriving in the United States. It is sure to become number one here too. Unlike gastric bypass surgery, gastric banding is reversible, is completely safe during pregnancy, involves no nutritional deficiencies, and best of all, takes away hunger forever, not just for the first year or so.

Khaliah wraps her story of weight loss in this memoir of what it was like to grow up the daughter of one of the world's most famous men, and teams up with her surgeons at the New York University Medical Center to detail the lifetime of misery suffered by an obese girl; the ins and outs of the banding operation; and the joy, serenity, and health resulting from a solution that until now had eluded her.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Khaliah Ali is an Emmy Award-nominated talk show host, former Ford model, fashion designer with her own line of clothing, and supporter of many charitable causes.

Drs. George Fielding and Christine Ren head the NYU Program for Surgical Weight Loss. Nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the field of obesity surgery, they have authored more than one hundred scientific articles in medical journals and, between them, ten medical textbook chapters.

Drs. George Fielding and Christine Ren head the NYU Program for Surgical Weight Loss. Nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the field of obesity surgery, they have authored more than one hundred scientific articles in medical journals and, between them, ten medical textbook chapters.

Lawrence Lindner is a New York Times bestselling writer who has published columns in The Washington Post and The Boston Globe and has penned numerous books and magazine articles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0061170941
• ISBN 13: 9780061170942
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible