November 2019

We often hear in today’s society that weight loss surgery is “the easy way out”. Sometimes, people say that losing weight with the help of a bariatric procedure is “cheating”, and that people should just exercise and eat healthy to lose weight, the “natural” way. This is just not true.

November 14^th is World Diabetes Day. Diabetes continues to be a hot topic of discussion as rates continue to be on the rise internationally and in Canada. A staggering 1 out of 3 Canadians has diabetes or prediabetes; that’s approximately 11 million Canadians.