Are you obese and all your efforts through diet and exercise ultimately result in higher numbers on your scale?
Undoubtedly, you have heard that the best weight loss results are achieved with healthy eating behaviors and regular physical activity. However, for some, this best results program is much easier said than done.
Severe obesity is a chronic condition. It is difficult to treat with diet and exercise. Gastrointestinal surgery is an option for those who cannot lose weight by diet and exercise means alone.
Lap band surgery promotes weight loss by restricting food intake. How it essentially works is that the less calories in, the less calories absorbed for overweight maintenance.
Normally food moves along the digestive tract and calories and nutrients are absorb along the way. First stop in this absorption route is your stomach. Amazingly, your stomach can hold about 3 pints of food at one time.
Lap band surgery reduces the amount your stomach can hold at one time. Simply, you will be unable to eat large amounts of food in a single sitting. Or for those that try, they may find their chewed up food right back at them, vomiting.
Adjustable gastric banding is a procedure wherein a hollow band is placed around the stomach near its upper end, creating a small pouch and a narrow passage into the rest of the stomach. The band is then inflated with a salt solution through a tube that connects the band to an access port placed under the skin.
This lap band can be tightened or loosened to increase or decrease the size of your surgically created “first stop” upper stomach pouch.
The advantages of this food quantity restrictive operation is the ease to perform and is generally safer than the alternatives. It is usually done via laparoscopy, which uses smaller incisions, creates less tissue damage, and involves shorter operating time and hospital stays than open procedures.
The “beauty” of this type of surgery is the ability to reverse it if necessary.
The disadvantages of lap band surgery is less weight loss than other weight loss surgery alternatives, and less likelihood for maintaining weight loss over the long haul.
Frankly, the success of this laparoscopy surgery strongly depends on your willingness to adopt a long-term healthy eating and regular physical activity plan.
One of the most common risks of lap band insertion is vomiting, which occurs when too much eaten or the narrow passage, created by the band, is blocked.
Although lap band surgeries are the safest, complications have resulted in death for less than 1 percent of all cases.
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