Surgery

What is Weight Loss Surgery?

11 January 2011

Was weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery) high on your New Year’s resolution hit list? Many of us will have managed to survive the Christmas holidays and stumbled our way through into the New Year, and, as with most New Year’s Eve’s we’ll have made some resolution or another. One of the most common of these spur of the moment decisions will be to lose weight, and some people will be thinking about surgery as a solution; but is it really the answer?

In this article we’re going to have a brief look at weight loss surgery, what a gastric bypass involves, and what this all means for you in the long term…

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Efficient Weight Loss Using Gastric Banding Procedures

13 July 2010

The newest, and only global device with FDA approval, is the gastric banding system, a surgical procedure for the morbidly obese. It is good for weight loss as it reduces the stomach’s capacity and so reduces food amount of food that can be consumed. More than 180,000 Gastric banding procedures have been performed since it was introduced in 1993…

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