Second Chances for Weight Loss

Many people make the resolution to get healthier by exercising more, eating better and losing weight, but it’s not an easy one to keep—until an event serves as a wake-up call to the potential effect on family and friends.

A combination of events served as Wendy Florczak’s wake-up call. The loss of a family member just a few years older than her and a diagnosis of her own heart condition at age 47 led her to Alexander D. Abkin, M.D., FACS, medical director of the JFK for Life Bariatric Surgery Program, for help losing weight in 2009.

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