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For people who want to reduce weight 'Weight Loss Surgery'
can be a good advice. Weight loss surgery is also referred
to as Gastro intestinal surgery. In some regions it
is also termed as Bar iatric surgery. For people who
have problems of stomach bypass, stomach stapling, stomach
balloon or lap band, this surgery can be a great help
to alleviate severe obesity. This surgery also comprises
some risk and some benefits. Firstly let's discuss the
risks involved in this surgery.
Risks of Weight Loss Surgery:
Like a major surgical procedure weight loss
surgery is also a serious surgical intervention and
carries all the usual risks. Like all other forms of
dieting (for this is, ultimately, only a surgical intervention
to control eating), it has a very low rate of success
in providing long-term, substantial weight loss. While
dieting can cause major physical problems and weight
gain, Weight Loss Surgery has its bad effects. It is
a dangerous procedure that permanently alters your digestive
system and invokes a state of anorexia thereby causing
malnutrition.
Do the risks of this surgery overpower its benefits?
This must be the question that every patient will ask.
Well the answer is a good No. Now let's see the benefits
of weight loss surgery.
Benefits of Weight Loss Surgery:
According to a consensus statement published
in the April edition of the Journal of the American
College of Surgeons (JACS) a panel of experts concluded
that weight loss surgery is the most effective treatment
available that can result in the improvement or complete
resolution of diseases associated with obesity.
Weight loss surgery has a direct impact on obesity,
although obese patients are carefully screened for suitability
and advised that any gastrointestinal surgery must be
accompanied by weight-related lifestyle changes in the
form of diet modification and increased physical exercises.
Weight loss surgery can improve life expectancy, eliminate
or resolve many diseases associated with obesity including
type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer. For weight
loss or bar iatric surgery laparoscopic and open techniques
are adopted.
By looking at the risks and benefits of Weight Loss
Surgery, I want to say that the benefits of this surgery
can only work when a patient is committed to improve
his/her eating habits, taking regular physical exercise
and this is an essential element for the long term success
of any weight loss surgery.
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