Real or Urban Myth? The Gastric Bypass Ripple Effect
one welcome 'side effect' of gastric bypass surgery: friends and family of the patient usually lose weight too!
More than 350,000 people have had LAP-BAND surgery. Another ~200,000 have gastric bypass each year. Vertical sleeve gastrectomy is the fastest growing obesity surgery, and the new gastric plication, or "pleat" - an evolution of reflux surgery that accomplishes stomach restriction without device implantation or resection - is being hailed as the future gold standard king of the weight loss surgeries. Is this too many people having surgery instead of losing it by less drastic and invasive means (that are not without significant risk).
In Prevention Magazine (August 2011) Dr. Oz focused on weight loss, physical activity, and better sex and overall health. And while some might guess that a physician would be against surgical intervention for weight loss except in extreme cases, that is not the case with Dr. Oz, who says that "we are probably only performing about 1% of the gastric bypass surgeries that we should".
Dr. Oz calls himself an advocate for gastric bypass surgery in reducing the national BMI and stemming the devastating tide of maladies associated with "diabesity", saying he thinks that obesity surgeries will play a major role in people gaining control of their diets and lives.
He points out that a 50-year-old who is ~100lbs overweight has the same mortality rate "as if you have a solid cancer'" (that sounds pretty horrible, doesn' tit? I know, I paused when I read that too - ugh). Dr. Oz points out that in the case of the cancer patient, no one would hesitate to operate...so why hesitate on the obese patient, whose at just as much if not more risk of premature death.
In the world of Oz, if a person cannot lose the weigh on their own, that person should have a weight loss surgery. Do it with counseling and a complete clarity of understanding regarding the permanent changes in your eating and even lifestyle, but do it because "if you get people to start losing 5% of their excess body weight, you're really taking a big whack out of the two-thirds of Americans."
Allow me to expand that tot non-Americans as well - my own note
Source : http://www.squidoo.com/Stopping-diabetes-before-it-stops-you
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