Gastric Bypass Post Operative Expectations

Title:
Gastric Bypass - Post-Operative Expectations
Word Count:
720

Summary:
At a time when obesity is growing at an alarming rate, an increasing number of people are turn

Gastric bypass has been around for more than fifty years now and, while there are of course ri

Keywords:
gastric bypass, laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, weight loss surgery, obesity

Article Body:
At a time when obesity is growing at an alarming rate, an increasing number of people are turn

Gastric bypass has been around for more than fifty years now and, while there are of course ri

Following a gastric bypass patients will need to adjust to a very different lifestyle and this

Some changes are of course obvious. The basic principle behind gastric bypass surgery is to dr


Even in small quantities the days of eating foods that are high in sugar or fat are also over.

Patients also find that the dramatic change in their eating pattern also leaves them very shor

This fairly dramatic change in lifestyle is all well and good but just what can gastric bypass

There is of course no simple answer to this question as results will vary from person to perso

The starting point is to assess just how much excess weight the patient is carrying. This is d

For a woman the principle is the same but this time a women’s ideal weight is 100 plus 5 times

Taking the example of our man above, if before surgery he weighs 366 pounds then his excess we

As a general guide the average patient can expect to lose about 50 percent of their excess wei

Again, as a general rule, patients who are excessively overweight will lose a greater percenta

It is interesting to note that patients very rarely lose 100 percent of their excess weight an


While they may not reach their ideal weight and may have to condition themselves to a very dif

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