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At BMI, we don’t generally talk about our successes. We focus, instead, on the science, the details that are not covered in counseling sessions with patients and their families. This is probably why we are on the first page of Google on most of the search terms for bariatric surgery. Once in a while, we [...]

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It requires a lot of motivation for obese subjects to convince themselves for surgery. Now, imagine after the entire ordeal, the patient either does not have an adequate weight loss (failed promises can go down very badly with anyone, you know) or, someone develops undesirable side effects (nutritional deficiencies, chronic vomiting, hernias mainly) after bariatric [...]

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Those who undergo or contemplate bariatric surgery do so essentially as a second chance at life. I mean that the severely obese man or woman feels that he (or she) has lost out in life on multiple fronts. Here are a few examples:
Loss of body contour/beauty: you can’t forget how you were once before the fat started piling on.
Poor self image: you hate the thing you see in the mirror.
Poor quality of life: you can’t dance, surf, skip, run or walk without some kind of pain or discomfort. Going up one floor makes you breathless. You avoid holidays where you would need to walk, especially on hilly terrain.

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In the last two decades or so, people have recognised (mistakenly, as you will see) that surgery for weight loss means liposuction. It has become a tiresome but necessary ritual for us to explain to our patients that what we do is bariatric surgery, not liposuction. Liposuction is local removal of subcutaneous fat from a [...]

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Weight loss after the lap gastric bypass is a well known fact. What is less known is that there is a certain degree of weight regain in some patients in the long term. Before we proceed, do you know what is a lap gastric bypass all about? An important factor to be considered by every [...]

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Note: This article discusses only Type II Diabetes Mellitus It has always been a given for generations that ‘once a diabetic, always a diabetic’. Absolutely like the truism for high blood pressure, asthma and hypothyroidism. You know that if you are unlucky enough to get these labels stuck on you, you are going to take [...]

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Alcohol has been in the center of research in the past few decades for a lot of reasons. While nobody with a sane  mind questions the vices of smoking, sensible drinkers have hotly contested the alcohol debate. We know that alcohol is very high in calories, and it also can affect the way the body [...]

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I, like many others, have long believed that science will, one day, announce the discovery of a pill that will end obesity. One pill, and pow! no more cravings, and fat will melt off your muscles like wax from a lit candle. (pic: bmj.com) Many companies have clearly shared that fantasy or vision. Billions of [...]

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Many bariatric surgeons are excited about the procedure Gastric Plication (LGP) as a bariatric procedure. It promises to be a simple method (remember, “Less Is More!”) that gives weight loss results as good as sleeve gastrectomy without even the risks of that procedure (staple line leaks (read part one and part two here) or bleeding). [...]

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(pic source: here) I am  excited (only in a manner of speaking) to announce to you a NEW series of articles for the layman who has just heard of bariatric surgery. This will be part of a new page. You will find, over the next several weeks, more and more articles that don’t deal with each [...]

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