The Hospital Group saw a surge in gastric band enquiries in 2009.  The numbers of people requesting information almost doubled in the past year.

The number of people seeking gastric bands to help them battle obesity almost doubled last year, according to figures from the UK’s leading provider of weight loss surgery.

Low incomes are often related to Obesity. The Hospital Group’s poll found over half of overwight Scots are paid less than £20k.

Obesity sufferers’ wealth and health are both affected by condition.

65% of Irish people are at an unhealthy weight, 25% are obese!  Latest research by leading weight loss experts, The Hospital Group.

Victims of obesity are suffering from financial as well as health problems. According to research by Weight Loss Management Experts The Hospital Group, obese people earn half the amount of normal and overweight people.  Almost a quarter of Britons are classified as clinically obese.  As well as lower earning power, they face side effects such [...]

Fed up with the flab, Julie Stansfield, 40, from West Yorkshire, took drastic action.  Dieting never worked for her, she could not resist sweet things.  She realised things had to change and visited The Hospital Group in Leeds to discuss a gastric bypass.  She told the surgeon she just wanted “to be normal.  To walk [...]

Eighteen stone is the average weight at which people recognise obesity is a crisis, research shows. It is the tipping point at which many seek surgery to turn their lives around.  Weight op experts The Hospital Group explained the obese “suffer in careers, family life and health”.  Fewer than one in five weighing above 18 [...]