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"We’re barely using the best tool we have to fight obesity" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/7/16587316/bariatric-surgery-weight-loss-lap-band ht
by aantix 8y ago
"We’re barely using the best tool we have to fight obesity"
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/7/16587316/bariatric-surgery-weight-loss-lap-band https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/7/16587316/ba...
Not all bariatric surgeries are the same. The lap band doesn't perform well long term. The Roux-en-Y procedure is one of the very few obesity treatments that carry long-term success, where the patients keep the lost weight off.
Waiting around for a better understanding is crazy, given the health complications are occurring now.
Quality of life increases. Medications are eliminated or reduced. Long-term mortality is reduced (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa066603 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa066603 )
- teekert 8y agoPretty radical solutions for a cultural problem. I wonder, maybe long term mortality is reduced but as long as you don't change to eating good food you will be missing out on vital substances, will you really grow old healthily by just eating less of the same crappy food?. Wouldn't it be easier to just focus on eating high fiber food like muesli and yogurt? That stuff keeps me stuffed for hours and hours.
- aantix 8y ago>that stuff keeps me stuffed for hours and hours But.. you’re not 400 pounds with requirement to lose half your body weight, and keep it off for the rest of your life? And this is a requirement that these patients have obviously never been successful at. And they’ve probably done, and failed, long term, at most diets.