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In some cases, surgery is needed to be done on a patient to force his or her body to lose weight and to live longer. The encompassing term for these any of the weight loss surgeries is Bariatric Surgery. Good candidates of bariatric surgeries are the extremely and dangerously obese whose lives are at great risk due to their being overweight. Here are some of the surgical techniques or medical procedures developed to lose weight:

1. Gastric Bypass Procedures (GBP)- A gastric bypass procedure significantly reduces the functional part of the stomach by up to 90%. This is made possible by dividing the stomach into a small functional part and a larger non-functional part. The small functional portion shall serve as the new stomach. Because of its small volume and capacity, the patient will only be able to eat a few ounces of food every meal resulting to drastic and immediate weight loss.

2. Laparoscopic gastric bypass is a technique wherein small incisions on the abdomen are used to access the stomach and make the surgery less invasive than the traditional procedure of slicing open the patient. Specialized operating instruments are used to fit into these small incisions to conduct procedure and to view it from monitors. Because of the limited access, laparoscopy has also limited features compared to the traditional gastric bypass.

3. Vertical Banded Gastroplasty – This procedure involves permanently stapling a part of the stomach to create a smaller pouch, which serves as the new stomach. This is also known as stomach stapling or the Mason procedure.

4. Adjustable Gastric Band – Also known as lap band, is made of silicone and is adjustable. Its purpose is also to create a smaller pouch that can serve as a new stomach. This can be done laparoscopically.

5. Sleeve Gastrectomy – This procedure can give the patient a smaller stomach by surgically removing 85% of the stomach. The procedure got its name from the sleeve-like shape of the reduced stomach. Sleeve Gastrectomy is irreversible and can be done laparoscopically as well.

6. Intragastric Balloon – A deflated specialized balloon is inserted into the stomach during the surgery and then filling it with air in order to take up space and reducing food capacity. The balloon is removed after six months.

For mixed bariatric procedures, multiple techniques are adapted to achieve the best result. Although bariatric surgeries have complications and risks, they are worth a shot when a patient is deemed to die early due to obesity.

Have you ever heard a story like this? A relative goes to the hospital for tests to find out why they are tired all the time and doesn’t feel ‘well’. They did the tests, can not find anything wrong and don’t know what the problem is. They want them to go back in a few months time so they can run some more tests.

What they are doing is waiting for the condition (whatever it is) to develop further so it can be identified as treatment to manage a condition can only be aptly prescribed after a diagnosis is made.

There is an apt description coined for those whose heath has deteriorated to the point where the person has early symptoms but they have not yet progressed to the point that a specific disease process can be identified. They are called the ‘walking wounded’.

These are a growing army of these ‘walking wounded’, people who are ‘vertically ill’ who are not well enough to function adequately but are not yet quite sick enough to become ‘horizontally ill’ – bed bound with a total loss of physical function.

This ‘walking wounded’ scenario can go on for years or even decades as pain, disability and ill health push any hope of real health out the door. The victim can often adapt and keep going, but underneath the quality of life is slowly destroyed.

It is strange that we have been conditioned to believe that it is simply a question of “Lady Luck” as to our fate in life’ Lucky us, perfect health, no disease, long life. Or bad luck, poor health, disease, short life. It is as if we have no part in it, no influence and no responsibility as we run off to the doctor expecting them to fix us up if we get sick.

Although the doctor helps manage disease symptoms don’t think the doctor looks after your health. The doctor looks after your sickness. Don’t ever confuse that. You alone live in your body and you alone are responsible for your health. Even if you currently have disease symptoms starting to show you can improve your health dramatically.

You can even give yourself the gift of ‘real’ health. This is a much higher level than simply ‘not being sick’ and is where you have peak performance physically, mentally and emotionally. You have lots of energy, emotional balance and a quick mind. Your disease proof body has the ability to easily fight off invaders.

You don’t get colds and you certainly don’t suffer from preventable diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes and at least fifty others that rob the health of millions of people.

But you have to work for ‘real’ health; it doesn’t just happen on its own. For starters you have to eat high quality food and this means ditching the processed, refined rubbish that sits in pretty boxes on the supermarket shelves made with dirt cheap ingredients devoid of nutrition. This means you have to cook from scratch, natural whole foods so your body is given the essential nutrients it needs to keep your immune system strong.

You also have to perform a proper exercise program that contains strength training exercise 2-3 times each week to keep your muscular system strong. Muscle is the engine of your body and if it is not in good condition all of your body systems weaken including the immune system which will allow life threatening disease to stalk you..

Having ‘real’ health allows you to have a much greater chance of enjoying a long and healthy life span achieving your full potential in every way. Ill health means a shorter life span with much of that time spent suffering and just merely existing. The choice is up to you – which will you choose?

Cosmetic surgery is not a single term. In fact, it is collection of different procedures described in a single term. Cosmetic treatment is the craze of the modern era. New procedures are being developed with the advancement in technology to eliminate even the slightest of the risk involved.

There are two main types of surgery. One is the type in which a surgeon adds something to the body to make it better and in the second type a surgeon takes something from the body. Liposuction is one of the most common procedures performed by a cosmetic surgeon and it is one of the procedures related to the type of surgery in which he takes fat cells from the body.

In the modern method of removing fats from the body, an injection of phosphatidyl choline deoxy cholate is injected in the middle of the fat tissues and it dissolves all the fats present in that area. This method saves the person from the postoperative effects.

The other type of surgery is the one in which we add something to the body for example in case of breast enlargement surgery, breasts are enlarged with the use of silicon. Silicon is incorporated in breast tissue and their size is enlarged.

Men always have a dream to have 6 pack abs but it needs a lot of hard exercise to get them. Here the surgery comes with a solution. Men are provided with artificial 6 pack abs which is usually made of special plastic. These artificial abs are incorporated in the body of the person surgically.