Weight loss, in the perspective of medicine, health, or physical fitness, is a decrease of the total body mass, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bones mineral deposits, muscle, tendon, and other connective tissue. It can occur unintentionally due to an underlying disease or can arise from a conscious effort to improve an actual or perceived overweight or obese state. The search for the ideal weight loss operation began more than 50 years ago because exercise and diet alone is apparently ineffective in treating people with extreme and excessive obesity. Surgical pioneers expanded modern procedures that at first produced malabsorption then constrained volume intake, and finally combined both systems. Discrepancies, adjustments, and revisions of these innovative procedures, joint with concentrated efforts to go after and file results, have led to the growth and progress of modern bariatric surgery. More current research has the hormonal and metabolic effects of these procedures as the central point of view. Such discoveries at the cellular level will help widen the potential machine of weight loss and co morbidity reduction beyond the customary justification of reduced food consumption and malabsorption. Bariatric surgery or the weight-loss surgery is an operation performed on abnormally obese people with a body mass index greater than 40 and is a service provided by an inter-disciplinary team – psychiatric, endocrine, rehab, nutritionist, cardiologist, and pulmonologist. Studies have shown that in seriously obese people, having weight loss surgery means they are likely to live longer because of the less risk of stroke, heart attacks, some types of cancer, and liver diseases. By dividin... ... middle of paper ... ...ar. Vol. 22. No. 236. 10 July 2008: B-4 and B-5. 5. Horrilleno, Henry, M.D. “New hope for the hefty: Bariatric Surgery.” Philippine Star. 2 Aug. 2010: D-2. 6. Enrhart, William. The Prevention Total Health System: Natural Weight Loss. Rodale Press, Inc., 1985. 7. Felipe, Mitch. “Losing Weight is a Life-Long Effort.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. Vol. 24. No. 71. 17 Feb. 2009: C-8. 8. Mendoza, Felipe. “Loving Your Body Is The Real Secret To Weight Loss.” Philippine Daily Inquirer. 20 March 2012. 9. Bariatric Surgery. West Penn Allgheny Health System. 14 Nov. 2013. . 10. Roker, Al. “Weight Loss Surgery Side Effects: Procedure's Not-So-Glamorous Side Highlighted.” Huffpost Healthy Living. (2013) 14 Nov. 2013. .
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Bariatrics is the branch of medicine that focuses on the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity. Bariatric surgery is a specific discourse community connecting individuals through mutual interests, shared knowledge, and expertise of treating obese populations. The field of bariatrics is a discourse community with several purposes. It encourages innovative surgical and nonsurgical solutions in obesity care. It formulates hypotheses and develops and conducts experimental designs to test the hypotheses’ reliability and validity. Furthermore, it aims to stimulate discussion about its findings.
Bariatric surgery is an operation that is performed in order to help such individuals lose weight. Evidence suggests that bariatric surgery may lower death rates for patients
In the larger picture, weight loss surgeries have become “the fast food” response to weight loss demands by the public. In my opinion, many patients are using weight loss surgeries as the weight loss mean rather than their own self-control and self-discipline; instead of for use by those who couldn’t lose weight by any other way. Unfortunately, not all the participants need the weight loss surgeries, and not all receive a long lasting benefit from the surgeries. As obesity spikes nationwide, so does the use (and potential abuse by overuse) of surgical procedures for weight loss.
In society today, people look at beauty as a tall, skinny model or a tan, muscular man. It has brain washed the world to believe that in order to look beautiful, they must look like the images that are seen in the media. Today’s celebrities who are famous for their appearance also encourage the belief that thin is beautiful. These images are all over the media right now and have been for many years. With all of these images that are seen everywhere, a person feels obligated to look just like the people of Hollywood so they turn to cosmetic and/or weight loss surgery. Although cosmetic surgery can improve one’s self-image, it can also have a lot of disadvantages which can lead to many risks, even death.
Without recognizing the reality of and suffering the results of living with obesity, together with the feeling of losing control with a continually growing weight and avoiding acknowledging the reality of being obese, a desire for change will not foster. The aspiration and willpower to make a change is initially conveyed in several failed efforts to lose weight and is supported by the wanting to take back control and to reverse the issues stemming from the excess weight. A journey of gathering information follows, that ultimately guides the overweight individual to information about gastric bypass surgery. Sometimes this will happen due to chance, but in most cases it is consequence of endlessly seeking for aid outside the conventional methods
In our society today, there are many people that are overweight and want to lose weight fast. Some people consider liposuction, a technique in cosmetic surgery for removing excess fat from under the skin by suction. It is the most popular form of cosmetic surgery, and both men and women are using liposuction. It was introduced in 1982, and liposuction’s popularity increased as they improved the technique, and the recovery time. In 2002, there were 372,831 liposuction procedures performed in the United States, approximately 13% of all plastic surgical procedures. Now most liposuction surgeries are being done as outpatient surgeries, so after the surgery the patient can go back home. To some patients this might be beneficiary, since they don’t have to take so much time of work, or have kids that they need to take care of. The shorter the recovery time the faster the person can go back to their daily activities. Liposuction techniques may be used to reduce localized fat deposits of the thighs, hips, buttocks, Abdomen, waist, upper arms, back, inner knee, chest area, cheeks, chin and
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However, these side effects can be avoided with the proper amount of vitamin and mineral supplements. Up to 20 percent of patients who undergo the operation will require follow-up surgeries to correct complications. Common problems include abdominal hernias, breakdown of the staple line and stretched stomach outlets. There’s rapid regain of weight and all sorts of medical problems. From vitamin deficiencies to constant illness, stomach upsets, diarrhea, fatigue and horrible wound infections. Many people don’t want to admit they’ve had problems because they’re so happy to be thin; “People who have had the surgery the past couple of years are in a honeymoon state”, states Guthrie, Catherine. The author of “Bariatric Surgery: A Radical Obesity Fix. They is so thrilled to be thin. They believe being thin at all costs is more important than their own lives. Even if the patients have problems although these are some complications, most patients undergo only one surgery and there's an 85 percent success rate.
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Although many individuals are uncertain about the increasing statistics associated with obesity, more than seventy percent of men and virtually sixty-two percent of women within the United States adult population are overweight or obese (Wilmore, Costill, & Kenney). Obesity refers to the condition of having an excessive amount of body fat. If an individual’s amount of body fat becomes too excessive, he/she is at a much greater risk of developing life-altering diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, type II diabetes, cancer, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, etc. (Wilmore, et al., 2008).
McKinley’s energy needs would be calculated using the Mifflin St. Jeor equation. In this case, Mr. McKinley’s estimated energy needs would be about 3,350 kcal/day ((10 x 186.36 kg)) + (6.25 x 177.8 cm) – (5 x 37) + 5 = 2794.85 kcal/day) x 1.2). However, this estimated energy requirement will be too high for Mr. McKinley following his bariatric procedure in which he will be experiencing rapid weight loss. According to ASMBS, low calorie diets are advised for post-bariatric surgery in the regular diet phase, which is 800-1200 kcal/day.3 After taking into account potential energy expended from adapting a physical activity plan following bariatric surgery, Mr. McKinley should aim for 1100 kcal/day once he has progressed to a regular diet. Protein intakes of 60-80 g/day, or 1.0-1.5 g/kg of ideal body weight (IBW) are recommended by many bariatric surgery programs, according to ASMBS.3 Using 1.5 g of protein/kg IBW, Mr. McKinley’s estimated protein needs would be about 113 g/day, or 453 kcal from protein. This would be too high for Mr. McKinley, when considering that nearly 50% of his energy intake would be from protein (he is already volumetrically restricted, and carbohydrate and fat intake needs to be considered, as well). Using 1.0 g of protein/kg of ideal body weight, Mr. McKinley’s estimated protein requirements are 75 g of protein/day (1.0 g x 75.45 kg
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Obesity is a problem of current magnitude in many technologically advanced countries and is becoming an increasing concern in developing countries, which have traditionally dealt with the problems of lack of nutrition. Obesity is a critical health problem for the reason that it’s a severe health issue, increased death risk, and associated social, psychological and economic costs goes with being obese. Globally obesity has doubled since 1980, 1.9 billion adults are overweight, out that 600 million adults are obese as of 2014 (Obesity and overweight, 2014). The past decade has seen a surge in the number of weight loss or Bariatric surgery done. The use of weight loss surgery is considered to be the most efficient way to treat obesity