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What age is ideal for weight surgery patients?.

What Age is Ideal for Weight Loss Surgery Patients?

Fatness has become a significant health problem all over the world. Therefore, weight loss surgery is widely favoured as a treatment for it. While the problem doesn’t seem to discriminate based on age, we see older and very young patients struggling with the disease. Nearly 40% of people aged 51 or older are overweight, and…

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Financing Bariatric Surgery

Is it Possible to Finance Bariatric Surgery?

Bariatric surgery like the gastric sleeve and gastric bypass can be expensive. You are looking at expenses of at least $10,000 or more. In many cases, the bariatric surgery cost can be as much as $20,000 or higher. However, it would be best to never discount something as important as bariatric surgery merely because of the costs…

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Secrets to avoid weight regain.

Secrets to Avoid Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery

Even after losing weight via bariatrics, many bariatric surgery patients fear they will gain the weight back all over again. That never-ending cycle of weight loss and regain spurred many patients to seek out bariatric surgery in the first place. You may think, “Is it possible to regain all the weight after losing it through a gastric sleeve or…

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Emotionally prepare yourself for weight loss surgery.

How to Emotionally Prepare Yourself for Weight Loss Surgery

Preparing for weight loss surgery can fill you with all sorts of emotions, some good, some bad. On one hand, you are excited to see the excess pounds finally melt away. Like most bariatric patients, you have tried everything possible to try and lose weight the natural way. Diet and exercise don’t work, so weight…

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Tighten Loose Skin

How to Tighten Loose Skin After Weight Loss Surgery

One worry people have about weight loss surgery is that they will be left with saggy skin that hangs. Hanging skin is not guaranteed in all weight loss surgery patients, but the problem can occur. Here’s how it happens. When you gain weight, your skin expands to accommodate your larger body. Following weight loss surgery,…

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weight loss Signs

8 Signs You Might be Ready for Weight Loss Surgery

Many doctors recommend weight loss surgery to their patients to combat this unhealthy problem.The growing obesity epidemic shows no signs of slowing down and that’s why, weight loss surgery is the effective method to deal with it. The CDC reports that more than 42.4% of all American adults are overweight. Harvard predicts that nearly 50%…

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Weight Loss Surgery Affects Hunger

How Weight Loss Surgery Affects Hunger & Fullness

Slimming down with weight loss surgery is made possible thanks to two distinct fat loss mechanisms. The first is called restriction. Bariatric procedures like the gastric sleeve and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass restrict how much you can eat by making your stomach smaller. By eating less, you can begin losing a significant amount of weight quickly,…

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Sleep Apnea Treated by Bariatric Surgery

Can Sleep Apnea be Treated with Bariatric Surgery?

Bariatric surgery is one of the most effective treatments for obese people with an issue of sleep apnea. Being overweight can cause many health problems, including the ability to get a good night’s sleep. With over half of Americans being diagnosed as overweight,  bariatric surger and with one in four predicted to be severely obese…

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What to expect from your weight loss consultation.

What to Expect from Your Weight Loss Consultation

Introduction to Weight Loss Consultation When you have gained significant weight over many years, the pressure to take it off becomes enormous. You didn’t choose to become obese. To lose significant weight, you may have considered turning to bariatrics. Or, more specifically, weight loss surgery. Bariatrics is the science of helping people lose weight through medical…

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