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How Weight Loss Surgery Can Save A Life
Author : Damian Higgens
Weight loss surgery is a solution for obesity, a medical condition of excess body fat that reduces life expectancy and contributes to the likelihood of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea problems, certain types of cancer, hypertension, high cholesterol, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and osteoarthritis. Obesity is considered an epidemic in America, affecting one third of the population.
Bariatric weight loss surgery, a term for all weight loss surgery, is recommended for those perilously obese. The U.S. National Institutes of Health recommends it based on a body mass index of 40. Generally, surgery reduces stomach size either with an implanted medical device, gastric banding or with gastric bypass surgery, which removes a portion of the stomach. After surgery, weight loss happens rapidly, and long-term benefits include improved health. Studies show that both cardiovascular and mortality risk improve from 20 to 40 percent after the success of surgery.
In particular, two procedures, the Roux En Y Bypass Procedure and the Duodenal Switch Procedure, are gaining popularity.
Roux En Y Gastric Bypass Procedure
This procedure uses small incisions to alter stomach size. The surgeon uses a surgical telescope connected to a video camera, watching the surgery on a video screen. Although this surgery is difficult because of the limited access to the stomach, it has benefits like a shorter hospital stay, less discomfort, quicker recovery, less scars and less risk of a hernia. Patients can expect a 71 percent weight loss.
Duodenal Switch Procedure
This surgery reconfigures the small intestine, creating two paths and a general channel. The short path, the digestive loop, bypasses food in the stomach to the general channel while the long path, the biliopancreatic loop, transports bile to the general channel. This reconfiguration reduces fat absorption and calorie intake.
After weight loss surgery, eating habits have to be changed because of the modified gastrointestinal tract. Each dietary guideline is slightly different based on the procedure performed. Generally, solid foods have to be masticated and fluids avoided during meals. Many foods previously enjoyed have to be completely omitted, specifically high sugar foods like candies, pastries and desserts, carbonated drinks, high calorie supplement drinks and foods, high fat and high fiber foods and alcoholic beverages. In addition, snacking between meals has to be limited.
Recovery rates vary depending on general physical health. The majority of bariatric weight loss surgery patients return to work after six weeks, but those who have had Roux En Y Gastric Bypass Procedure often return to work after only a couple of weeks.
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Submitted : 2010-01-20 Word Count : 449 Popularity: 135