Britain's busiest gastric-band surgeon tells that after the operation on this very obese patient, the man's diabetes will be mysteriously cured in a week, and within a month, his size will be down to normal. The doc has performed over 2,000 obesity surgeries and the number increases about ten a week. The surgeon tells in the Times Online article that males develop big bellies, with the fat enveloping the internal organs. In contrast, ladies wear their fat outside.
The American Society For Metabolic Bariatric Surgery website tells that the concept is to band or 'pinch' the stomach into an 'upper' pouch and the lower stomach. The patient can only eat a small meal before the upper pouch fills, and the stomach tells the brain that the person is 'full'. Originally, the band was a fixed mesh, and over several years, the pouch would enlarge, defeating the surgery.
Today, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding has an inflatable balloon to control the size of the pouch. There is a portal to the skin that allows a doctor to inject a saline solution to precisely regulate the size of the pouch based upon the patient's eating habits and metabolism. The surgery is reversible and has a morality rate of about 0.1%.
Gastric banding reverses impact of type 2 diabetes tells that the success of the obesity surgery is from the simple weight control. Weight and diabetes tells it more bluntly - obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are risk factors for type 2 diabetes.
Mmm. I did some preliminary research on the possible link between agribusiness and obesity. There is plenty of rhetoric, but I need to research it more deeply before blogging on it.
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Posted by: Acai Optimum | March 15, 2010 at 02:47 PM