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Food Addiction: What Is It and How to Overcome It

Weight loss surgery is an excellent way for individuals to kickstart a healthier lifestyle, especially if you’ve tried different non-surgical methods and didn’t see any significant results or if you’re dealing with morbid obesity that is threatening your life. Obesity can lead to many comorbidities, such as diabetes, osteoarthritis, or sleep apnea, which makes surgery […]

Obesity and Breast Cancer

Obesity is a complex disease that is not caused by one single issue. Many things factor into the equation that leads an individual to gain weight to the point of threatening their health, such as the environment they grew up in, underlying medical conditions that prevent them from maintaining a healthy weight, or sedentary lifestyles. […]

The Benefits of Bariatric Surgery

The road to losing weight looks different for everyone, even though the final destination may be the same or similar. Everyone wants to be healthy and feel great about their body, but there’s not a single one size fits all method; for some, just following a healthy diet can be enough, while others include a […]

How Obesity Affects Mental Health

Obesity is a complex disease that is not caused by one single issue. Many things factor into the equation that leads an individual to gain weight to the point of threatening their health, such as the environment they grew up in, underlying medical conditions that prevent them from maintaining a healthy weight, or sedentary lifestyles. […]

Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: What is It?

In 1836, Charles Dickens wrote a novel, The Pickwick Papers, in which a character named Joe presented many of the symptoms that were later linked by doctors to obesity and sleep apnea, which is diagnosed as not breathing for extended periods of time during sleep. As many doctors and scientists do, they took an established […]

Weight Gain and Menopause: Why Does it Happen?

The human body, like almost everything else, is in a constant state of change. From the moment we are born, we begin to experience different transformations: from the amount of bones our body has to the way our hair and nails grow over periods of time. Other transformations can be seen in our height, weight, […]

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Dr. Pompa is a member of several distinguished organizations, where she attends meetings regularly and serves as faculty at:

  • Mexican Association of General Surgery
  • Mexican College of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery
  • Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
  • American Association of Surgery for Obesity and Metabolic diseases as an international member
  • International Bariatric Club
  • Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)
  • French Society for Digestive Surgery
  • American Diabetes Association
  • Harvard Alumnin Association

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