The
Truth About Gastric Bypass Surgery
Considering gastric bypass surgery?
You need to know that weight loss surgery does not
address the cause of
obesity and can leave you in a worse state of health.
The main goal of gastric bypass surgery is to limit
the
amount of
calories going into the body. This is accomplished
in two ways:
First, a pouch in the stomach is created and stapled shut, effectively
making the stomach smaller. A smaller stomach
reduces the amount of food you can physically eat.
Second, a bypass around a segment of your small
intestine is added.
This allows food to bypass a portion of the small intestine causing a
decrease in food absorption.
So what can go wrong?
A
decrease in the amount of food going into your stomach and the amount
of food absorbed into your body does not make you healthier...Studies
show that patients are just as unhealthy following the procedure as
they were before it.
Contrary to popular belief,
most people who are overweight are also
nutrient deficient. A person
who undergoes the procedure can be physically unable to get enough
nutrition and they can be left in
a much worse state of nutrition deficiency than before.
Iron, calcium, magnesium and vitamin deficiencies
are common for those
who have undergone the surgery. This can lead to long term problems,
such as osteoporosis and other degenerative diseases.
Gastric bypass has been portrayed as an easy fix, however it is
anything but! It does not address your mind, including
self control issues. If you have failed to lose weight before, don't
expect that just by having the weight loss surgery that losing weight
will be easy for you.
The typical diet program
after the weight loss surgery is so
restrictive that patients frequently find it too difficult to maintain.
In fact, it is
generally recommended that all people who undergo the procedure
extremely limit the amount of fat and refined food consumption.
What if the vast majority of gastric patients would
have eaten
like this before the surgery? Perhaps the surgery would be
completely unnecessary...
Even further support that weight loss is greatly a
mind-set, is the
fact that many patients end up cheating and even gain weight back over
the following years.
These surgeries can also cause dumping syndrome.
This occurs
when food moves too quickly through the stomach and intestines. Dumping
syndrome causes sweating, weakness, nausea, faintness and other issues.
There are many other risks associated with the
surgery:
- A narrowing in the connection between the stomach
and the intestines causing nausea and vomiting after eating.
- Ulcers
- The staples can actually pull loose
- Hernia
may develop
And the most telling of all stats, it is estimated that
somewhere around 2 people in 100 die as a result
of gastric bypass surgery.
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