BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. Poor Pitiful Pearl, always expecting the worst. On the other hand Bright Side Betty, sees the good possibilities in everything. Author Jude Milner takes a lighthearted look at how your attitude reflects on you and your good or bad “luck”.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Develop a weight management lifestyle. Stay on track implementing these no nonsense eating laws. Change negative eating behaviors and focus on leading a healthy life. A healthy nutritional lifestyle is more than a systematic plan of eating; it is a change of heart as well as a change of foods.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Insurance specialist Ellen Bell gives a lesson about insurance carriers and how to avoid beaurocratic red tape concerning weight loss surgery approval.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Insisting on excellence, requiring stricter standards and sharing research information is the role of the Surgical Review Corp (SRC). The cornerstone of SRC is to be an efficient, and user-friendly database to some of the top clinical research databases in the country. Each SRC initiative is strategically developed to serve one vital purpose: patient advocacy and safety.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Early results of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy exceeded expectations. This is an exciting surgical advancement in the weight loss surgery field and can have a great impact upon future surgery options.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Behind every weight loser is a good food diary. Many icons of greatness rose to success as partnerships. So it is no surprise that this applies to weight loss surgery as well. Ensuring long-term weight loss success makes the food diary your faithful partner. Let the food diary stand as a strong, functionally empowering way to monitor your food intake.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Despite her many weight loss successes, Suzy still had an underlying feeling of unhappiness. But, strange as it seems, success proved uncomfortable, she was much more familiar and comfortable with failure. She must now take the daring step toward mending emotional barriers, choosing to embrace and love herself. Understanding that change can happen in a single moment, but it is only in the choosing that it can change for the better.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Battling obesity for nearly a decade this “pretty face” reached a point of desperation. Things were just beyond her ability to control. Donna Burks finds the meaning to life and continues her never ending quest for happiness.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Plastic surgeon selection is one of the single most important steps you can do to optimize your post-operative plastic surgery wound healing results. Analyze four more essential elements that contribute to better wound healing.

BRIEF ARTICLE OVERVIEW: Success is quite subjective. Prior to surgery many folks have only modest goals for how their weight loss surgery will turn out. But somehow these goals change and suddenly they want it all. It is only human nature. The problem comes into play when reality sets in and certain ideals have not been met. Don’t become victim to self-defeating interpretations or perceptions. Changing your thoughts is a challenging endeavor and learning to accept yourself as you are holds its own merits of success.