Bariatric Center Spotlight:
The Obesity Consult Center at Tufts-New England Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts

Editorial Message:
The power and reality of a natural disaster in our land…
Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS

Insurance Perspective:
Patient Access to Bariatric Surgery�With Commentary Following from Kenneth B. Jones, Jr., MD
by Mary Lou Walen and Michael Owens, MD, MPH, FACPE, CPE

Nutrition Perspective:
Postoperative Nutritional Assessment and Care of the Bariatric Surgery Patient
by Margaret Furtado, MS, RD, LD/N

Obstetrics Perspective:
PREGNANCY AFTER BARIATRIC SURGERY
by Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD, Ph.D; David Podkameni, MD; Emily Wong Swartz, RD, LD/N; Samuel Szomstein, MD, FACS; Raul J Rosenthal, MD, FACS

Patient Perspective:
Triathlon After Bariatric Surgery�From the Starting Line
by Doug Roberts

Review:
Energy Metabolism and Biochemistry of Obesity
by Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD; and Todd A. Kellogg, MD, PhD

Sociocultural Perspective:
Five Minutes with Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH�Tackling the American Culture of Obesity
Marion Nestle, Time magazine�s 2004 Obesity Warrior, is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Her research focuses on analysis of the scientific, social, cultural, and economic factors that influence the development, implementation, and acceptance of federal dietary guidance policies. She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Dr. Nestle gave Bariatric Times five minutes, which is time enough for us to ask her some questions regarding some of the most pressing and current issues surrounding the growing American culture of obesity.

Surgical Perspective:
Totally Robotic Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: Overcoming Technological Limitations
by Geoffrey S. Nadzam, MD; and Myriam J. Curet, MD, FACS