I’ve gone back and forth about posting things here on FFD that are just links to other sites, news articles, etc… when I find things of interest, I like to try and summarize how they are relevant to someone looking in to or has had WLS. But, I don’t always have the time to do so… and I figure why not start sharing these things I come across anyways?  So…  I’m starting up the “newsroom” category to use for when I post links to outside stories.

I have a couple to share real quick, one was posted by someone on twitter this morning and another from someone over on the BTV forums.

Confidence rises in weight loss surgery – at first I thought this was going to be about how the patient confidence rises, but it’s more about how WLS is increasingly becoming accepted as a treatment for morbid obesity.

Weight-Loss Surgery Pays For Itself After 2 Years, Study Shows – This is an older item, from September of 2008, but even then studies were showing how WLS would pay back in spades, not just from a health perspective, but also money wise.