Weight Loss Surgery
July 13, 2009
To lead an obesity free life it needs a lot of determination, hardwork, the perfect diet and exercise for your body. It needs a long term perspective and you can’t lose weight overnight.
There are various options available for quick weight loss like weight loss pills and you can lose you fat even fast by going in for a surgical weight loss.
Medical science has become very advanced these days and many doctors and surgeons have found out ways to remove fat from the intestine and stomach of a person for weight loss. The doctors noticed that patients lost weight after the surgery and were able to maintain (for a short duration) it because of the reduced stomach size and change in dietary habits, as a person’s food intake depends on the size of their stomach.
In this program food intake is reduced by lowering the number of calories a person consumes. The catch lies in the fact that post surgery the patient will need to lead a healthy life with proper diet and exercise so that s/he doesn’t gain the lost weight.
There are a whole lot of techniques that are used for a weight loss surgery which depends on individual’s requirement. In a Restrictive Surgery a band is used to reduce the stomach and intestine size. The food intake of an obese patient restricted to a few food groups to stop production of high accumulated energy, which is the chief source of overweight.
This happens because body easily burns low amount of calories in activities like movement, respiration, locomotion and circulation; the amount of energy left in the body is almost negligible. Another surgery is Mal-absorptive where the eating of food objects is not reduced; but this process slows down the burning of calories.
Huge parts of small intestine are removed from our body to bring down absorption. This is the main area responsible for absorbing simplified food; they send the absorbed food to a variety of organs. Because the absorbing of food is disrupted the body stops gaining extra fat. The surgery proves better when both above mentioned are combined together.
The results these surgeries yield are similar to crash diets and weight loss pills. That means it is short term, risky, complicated and unhealthy. Still this surgery can be used as a support tool and not a remedy.
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