Index of all Articles in the Weight Loss Surgery Category

• Is Bariatric Surgery The Answer To Obesity?
  
  Introduction Against a background of widespread obesity among all US age-groups, and the relative failure of conventional weight loss methods, doctors are increasingly resorting to gastrointestinal surgery in order to curb the rise of weigh
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• Secrets of Gastric Bypass Surgery: Lose Weight Without Surgery
  
  There’s more to gastric bypass than surgery and rapid massive weight loss. Patients who undergo weight loss surgery (WLS) sign-up for a lifetime of rigid behaviors to guarantee their long-term success. Just imagine: If you knew what those behaviors
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• Pros and Cons of Weight Loss Surgery
  
  Introduction
  
  The most widely accepted statistical estimate used by health professionals to screen for obesity is the Body Mass Index - BMI, computed by dividing the weight in kgs by the height in meters squared; the equation therefore is kg/m2.
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