http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/28212

Interesting!

....for every pound of fat lost, your body breaks down and reabsorbs 7 miles of vessels!

Wow! That would explain my resting pulse going from 90 to 60 in 2 months!

I have lost over 500 miles of blood vessels! So yes, very good on the heart! BTW - the blood vessels and such in the fat are consumed for energy also! You also are moving alot of waste - that is why water is soooo important (one reason).

That's pretty cool!

Awesome! I would hate to get ovarian cancer.

Vary very cool article. I had no idea of the fantastic quantities of stuff in a pound of ugle old fat.

So I'm down over 850 miles of vessels! As gmanbat points out that's gotta be good for the heart!

lol @ Vance

Ya, don't sweat the ovarian cancer, Vance.

But seriously, one of the reasons I got the sleeve was to reduce the odds of a re-occurance of the prostate cancer that I have been treated for. I had heard that losing weight helps, this is the first time I saw it in writing.

Huh, that's pretty darn cool.

Ya, don't sweat the ovarian cancer, Vance.

But seriously, one of the reasons I got the sleeve was to reduce the odds of a re-occurance of the prostate cancer that I have been treated for. I had heard that losing weight helps, this is the first time I saw it in writing.

gmanbat,

I it is something i don't think I have got into much here, but a deciding factor for me to go ahead and get the sleeve was I had a tumor on my stomach - they were going to have to remove a portion of my tummy anyway..

Which they had missed in every reading for at least a year, until I began to lose weight on my own in january '11 (sleeved Januar '12)...so yes, the weight loss must help with things like that, even if only in the odds of detecting it...