Bariatric Surgery

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Weight loss, in the perspective of medicine, health, or physical fitness, is a decrease of the total body mass, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bones mineral deposits, muscle, tendon, and other connective tissue. It can occur unintentionally due to an underlying disease or can arise from a conscious effort to improve an actual or perceived overweight or obese state. The search for the ideal weight loss operation began more than 50 years ago because exercise and diet alone is apparently ineffective in treating people with extreme and excessive obesity. Surgical pioneers expanded modern procedures that at first produced malabsorption then constrained volume intake, and finally combined both systems. Discrepancies, adjustments, and revisions of these innovative procedures, joint with concentrated efforts to go after and file results, have led to the growth and progress of modern bariatric surgery. More current research has the hormonal and metabolic effects of these procedures as the central point of view. Such discoveries at the cellular level will help widen the potential machine of weight loss and co morbidity reduction beyond the customary justification of reduced food consumption and malabsorption. Bariatric surgery or the weight-loss surgery is an operation performed on abnormally obese people with a body mass index greater than 40 and is a service provided by an inter-disciplinary team – psychiatric, endocrine, rehab, nutritionist, cardiologist, and pulmonologist. Studies have shown that in seriously obese people, having weight loss surgery means they are likely to live longer because of the less risk of stroke, heart attacks, some types of cancer, and liver diseases. By dividin... ... middle of paper ... ...ar. Vol. 22. No. 236. 10 July 2008: B-4 and B-5. 5. Horrilleno, Henry, M.D. “New hope for the hefty: Bariatric Surgery.” Philippine Star. 2 Aug. 2010: D-2. 6. Enrhart, William. The Prevention Total Health System: Natural Weight Loss. Rodale Press, Inc., 1985. 7. Felipe, Mitch. “Losing Weight is a Life-Long Effort.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. Vol. 24. No. 71. 17 Feb. 2009: C-8. 8. Mendoza, Felipe. “Loving Your Body Is The Real Secret To Weight Loss.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. 20 March 2012. 9. Bariatric Surgery. West Penn Allgheny Health System. 14 Nov. 2013. . 10. Roker, Al. “Weight Loss Surgery Side Effects: Procedure's Not-So-Glamorous Side Highlighted.” Huffpost Healthy Living. (2013) 14 Nov. 2013. .

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