Tuesday, July 25, 2006

A word of warning to anyone thinking of taking drastic action to lose weight.....

Almost Half of Weight-Loss Surgery Patients Suffer Serious Complications
It's already known that gastric bypass and other bariatric surgeries for weight loss carry deadly risks, but what was perhaps not known was just how common these risks were.
A new US government report has found that for bariatric surgeries:
22% of patients in hospital had complications
but 44% of discharged patients had complications during the 1st 6 months
.
That means that 4 in 10 people who have the surgery develop complications.
Among the most common complications were:
Dumping syndrome, which involves vomiting, reflux and diarrhea
Complications resulting from the surgical joining of the intestine and stomach
Abdominal hernias
Infections and pneumonia
A patient with complications not only has to deal with the health issues, but also the costs. Costs averaged $36,542 for obesity surgery patients who had complications in the six months after surgery, and for those who had to be readmitted to the hospital as a result, costs averaged over $65,000.
Needless to say, I am not an advocate of this procedure, especially considering that far more effective, less expensive healthy
weight loss programmes options that exist .

So there is no 'instant, painfree way' to lose weight such as weight loss programs such as Herbalife supplements....

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