Posted on 08/19/2017 10:05:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Doctors are doing fewer weight-loss procedures to implant adjustable bands around the stomach and more operations to remove the devices or alter them, a U.S. study suggests.
Researchers focused on a type of weight-loss surgery known as laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, a minimally invasive procedure that involves placing an inflatable belt around the upper portion of the stomach that reduces the amount of food it can hold. People are advised to eat portions about the size of a shot glass post-surgery.
Nationwide, a total of 28,202 patients underwent procedures to implant laparoscopic adjustable gastric bands (LAGB) from 2007 to 2015, the study found. Over that same period, 12,157 people had gastric bands removed, or explanted.
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Would certainly cut down on the grocery bills!
Chris Christie was rumored to have had this or a similar weight reduction procedure done during his presidential campaign. When it was clear that he would not be nominated, the weight seemed to reappear practically overnight.
Those kinds of procedures are not easily maintained by every patient. You have to exercise quite a lot of self control for every meal, during every day for the rest of your life.
Many never had that standard of self control in the first place, hence the weight problem.
it's simply an aide to assist you in changing your lifestyle so you don't eat as much and when the desired weight loss is attained it can be removed, problem is, many people don;t make that change and stretch out the pouch effectively negating the procedure then they want to have real surgery like the R&Y or Sleeve Gastrectomy
they will lose weigh then but many more problems can occur than with the band
these have been not implanted for a while, they don’t work and they have been removed for at least 6 years
he had a bypass.
Without re-setting the brain’s system of weight management, the body will go back to previous weight.
I worked with a girl who was obese because she couldn’t control her eating. She had the procedure and dropped most of the excess weight, but later gained most of it back because she couldn’t control her eating. I don’t know how her lap-banded stomach handled the amount of food she was consuming.
Everyone I know that has had this procedure eventually gained the weight back.
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