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Author: Geoff Lord
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Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable deaths in America. The most related illnesses to obesity are diabetes and heart diasease. The aim of obesity surgery, also known as weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery is to limit the amount of your food intake. Although there are a number of surgeries that can be carried out, the most famous ones are gastric bypass surgery and stomach banding.
Gastric bypass surgery, one form of obesity surgery, is a fast way to lose weight and is mostly recommended for patients who have a risk of suffering from heart damage or other serious health problems. Unfortunately, only a fraction of society can undergo this surgery if they come out safe from the screening process carried out by specialists. Certain measures are also taken to ensure the patient’s psychological well beings is at a proper state before carrying out the surgery. Gastric bypass surgery reduces the amount of food a person can hold in their stomach which may bring about negative implications both psychologically and physiologically in time to come. So it’s not a joke!.
Adjustable stomach band is another type of surgery which is less severe and which brings forth less complications. Although this method too limits the amount of food that can be taken up by the body, the procedure is reversible upon request of the patient. This is best for children. Side-effects such as nausea or abdominal pain can be suffered by the patient following the implanting of the band.
Obesity surgeries are only for those people who have some sort of difficulty shedding pounds natural way through exercise and diets and surgery should only be considered if you weight over 100 pounds and if your BMI is over 40, only.
In order to keep the weight off of you after obesity surgery would have to change your lifestyle so that you would not fall back into gaining weight. This would mean that you have to keep exercising and maintaining your diet.
Let’s see what you should consider before obesity surgery. Firstly, make sure you have the finances necessary to face the surgery and spend on follow up appointments. Know that obesity surgery comes coupled up with lifestyle changes, changed food habits and requirement for exercises on a daily basis therefore your lifestyle will change impacting your psychological well being. You should remember, however, that the surgery does have it risks and side effects. Risks may include infections and hernias.
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Resource box: Geoff Lord is the Sales Director and webmaster several Hospital website’s. He has built an on line BMI Calculator where you can check out our check out our BMI Calculator and he invites you to visit his extensive Gastric Band Surgery Blog which he packs full of useful information which is updated daily.
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