People who have had this surgery describe it as the “last alternative” they’ve turned to to lose weight. After listening to their personal experiences, I dare say that this is the “first alternative” towards a full life: it is called bariatric surgery and it is an option nowadays chosen by most people who suffer from morbid obesity. This is the solution for obese people who cannot stay thin after losing weight, for those people who suffer from overweight-related diseases and for people who have psychosocial problems related to obesity. Bariatric surgery can help you obtain long-lasting results, since it limits the intake of food. In the past, this kind of surgery was made to patients who suffered from gastrointestinal ulcers. Since this procedure caused a considerable loss of weight, it started to be use on people who suffered from overweight.
Over the years, and thanks to the great technology advances, techniques that are used in surgery have become more precise and postoperative periods less painful. The main difference between the first surgeries and the ones that started to be performed in the early 90s is that the former were performed through open techniques and wide wounds, whereas the later are performed through laparoscopic techniques, i.e. through small wounds or incisions. Severe clinical obesity has considerably grown in the past decades. Their permanence in the society implies a great medical, psychological and economic impact. If we stop for a minute to consider the responsibility that obesity has for different medical complications such as high blood pressure and diabetes type II, we may say that bariatric surgery is the last alternative, not to lose weight but to continue alive. For this reason, it is more and more common for people to choose bariatric surgery to recover their physical and psychological health. It is chosen all around the world and offered here in Argentina. It is one of the many specialties of Plenitas.
In order to learn more about this problem we decided to contact Jack and Tina, two American citizens who suffered from chronic overweight and suffered the consequences of this disease.
We found the solution in Argentina, in the hands of a specialist in Bariatric Surgery of Plenitas.
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