Lap Band Surgery - Success in Weight Loss

Overweight people, who have tried every diet solution in the book to lose weight, without any success, can now choose to have this lifesaving procedure. By choosing to have lap band surgery they have chosen a new and healthy path for their life. This minimally invasive surgical procedure has created a way for them to experience significant weight loss and allow them to lead a normal life. For obese people losing weight all but seemed impossible, but with this surgical technique – lap band surgery it’s realistic to lose tremendous amounts of weight.

Why are you Overweight?
Obesity is a significant problem in the world that many people suffer from. The process of industrialization and modernization, with increased food intake and a less active lifestyle caused "perfect" conditions for people to become overweight. To be blunt, people in America have become lazy and do not think of taking care of themselves as evidenced by the food they consume as well as lifestyle's they lead. Some of the individual factors are listed below.

• smoking
• excess use of alcohol
• use of certain medications
• emotional stress
• no exercise

Obesity as a Risk Factor
Although obesity itself can be considered as an illness, it is also directly related to chronic health problems:

• cardiovascular diseases
• diabetes type II
• malignant diseases
• gall bladder disease

Why Choose Lap Band Surgery?
Lap band surgery is definitely the most efficient therapy for obese individuals, because it will ensure

weight loss. With the obesity epidemic there are many problems patients confront as a consequence of being severely overweight. With weight loss surgery the result is that it will improve the quality of life and improves their general health over a longer period of time. Many patients lose the most weight in the first 3 months and learn to maintain while still shedding pounds as a less rapid rate.

A surgical approach to the treatment of obesity requires a comprehensive approach. It is not just about performing lap band surgery, and decreasing the size of a patient's stomach—it is about completely changing the patient's approach to eating and living life in general. Prior to the surgery every patient will have consulted with his or her surgeon to determine all things pertaining to the surgery.

Nutrition after Lap Band Surgery
The patient has to follow a certain diet plan that will be very restrictive right after the surgery, and contain a certain number of liquid nutrients (protein shake, soup, and other liquids). After the first week, the patient will move to mashed food that is easy to digest, gradually evolving to minced food, before reaching solid food after about 2 months post surgery.

It is very important to take food in several small meals, to eat slow and chew thoroughly. It is not recommend to eat fat or sweet food (sodas, candies, etc.), because this can cause so-called damping syndrome that is characterized by nausea, diarrhea, dizziness, exhaustion. As these symptoms are quite unpleasant, the majority of patients avoid such foods for a long time post lap band surgery—and this is good, because it helps successful weight loss.

Vitamin Supplements after Surgery
Due to significantly lower food intake after lap band surgery, it is very important to add dietary supplements to your diet. These supplements will add necessary vitamins and minerals to aid in nutrition and help maintain a similar energy level, because it is important to be active—to promote weight loss.

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1980 N Orange Grove Ave
Pomona, CA 91767
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