Weight loss, in the context of medicine or health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body weight, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective tissue.

Man Shares Story Of Weight Loss Without Surgery.OMAHA, Neb. -- An Omaha man credits his amazing weight loss to old-fashioned diet and exercise, and he said it's a technique anyone can use.

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Australian researchers discovered that weight loss surgery can be very helpful to people with diabetes. Patients who dieted have worse results to get their disease under control than those after surgery.

This blogger lists the evidence and makes a compelling case that GOP candidate Mike Huckabee's dramatic weight loss is the result of gastric bypass surgery, not diet and exercise.

Much of Huckabee's "can-do," likeability quotient rests on his remarkable weight loss story, and the book he wrote about his experience -- crediting his success to diet and exercise. But there's a compelling case to be made that Huckabee lost his weight due to gastric bypass surgery, something he has vigorously denied before.