Weight Reduction Surgery
Weight Reduction Surgery. This 3D medical animation demonstrates techniques used in bariatric surgery (weight reduction surgery) for obesity, including stomach staple. Bariatric surgery is performed if weight loss efforts through lifestyle changes and medications have been unsuccessful and your body mass index, or BMI, is above 40 or above 35 and you have life-threatenign condition, such as heart disease of diabetes. There are two types of bariatric surgeries; restrictive and malabsorptive. Gastric bypass or Roux-en-Y is both a restrictive and malabsortive procedure, while banding techniques are restrictive procedures and biopacreatic diversion procedure is a malabsorptive procedure. ANH00003
Categories: Weight Loss Tags: 3D, adjustable, agb, animation, art, Band, bariatric surgery, bmi, Bypass, diabetes, digestion, esophagus, Gastric, Lap, LAP-BAND, laparoscopic, legal, loss, malabsorptive, Medical, nucleus, obese, obesity, pouch, reduction, roux-en-y, small intestine, staple, stapling, STOMACH, surgery, vbg, vertical, weight, Weight Loss
Teenage Obesity and Weight Loss Treatments
Teenagers discuss the struggles with obesity, and treatment options available.
Categories: Weight Loss Tags: Bypass, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Gastric, gastric bypass, Health, J&J, Johnson & Johnson, obesity, surgery, teen, teenage, teenagers, weight
My Weight Loss Surgery Journey
Here is a video slideshow of my journey though WLS(weight loss surgery) which I started in October of 2007…Please enjoy!!!
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WLS Walking Buddies – Week 1 How to post your steps to YT
This is the first week to post your steps to the group… show off what you did and challenge yourself to do more next week. Also get the word out that I will be hold a contest on September 1st for an Omron Pedometer! directorzone.cyberlink.com