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The Patient's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery: Everything You Need to Know about Gastric Bypass and Bariatric Surgery
Author: April Hochstrasser
Is weight loss surgery right for you? After frustrating and failed attempts with traditional dieting methods, more and more people are turning to weight loss surgery. More than 100,000 people undergo weight loss surgery each year and that number is growing rapidly.
The Patient’s Guide to Weight Loss Surgery is an indispensable guide for surgery candidates and their families. It explains in easy-to-understand language everything you need to know about this increasingly popular surgical procedure.
It is the most current and reliable source of information for anyone who wants to make an informed decision about gastric bypass and bariatric surgery.
The Patient’s Guide to Weight Loss Surgery provides valuable information on:
·The different kinds of weight loss surgery
·The risks and rewards of each procedure
·How to choose the right procedure and surgeon
·Ways to cope with the emotional changes that accompany a dramatic change in body size
·Compelling stories of patients who have had the surgery
·The financial and insurance considerations of weight loss surgery
Table of Contents:
| List of Illustrations | viii | |
| List of Abbreviations | ix | |
| Foreword | x | |
| Author's Note | xii | |
| Acknowledgments | xiii | |
| Disclaimer | xiv | |
| Chapter 1. | Types of Weight Loss Surgery | 1 |
| Overview | ||
| Vertical Banded Gastroplasty | ||
| Gastric Bypass | ||
| Fobi-Pouch Operation | ||
| Mini/Loop Gastric Bypass | ||
| Adjustable Gastric Band | ||
| Bileopancreatic Diversion | ||
| Jejuno-Ileal Bypass | ||
| Implantable Gastric Stimulation System | ||
| Gastric Balloon | ||
| Mortality Rates | ||
| How Big Is the Mature Pouch? | ||
| Summary | ||
| Chapter 2. | What Changing Your Body Image May Mean | 31 |
| Body Types | ||
| Metropolitan Insurance Company Weight Tables | ||
| Paradigm Shift about Food | ||
| Somatoform Personality Types | ||
| Surgical Remedies and their Consequences | ||
| Prejudice Against Fat People | ||
| Emotional Considerations | ||
| Controlling Thoughts and Feelings | ||
| Positive Aspects of Weight Loss Surgery | ||
| Chapter 3. | Negative Aspects of the Surgery | 47 |
| Risks of Malnutrition | ||
| Risks of Weight Loss Surgery | ||
| Chapter 4. | Risks of Obesity | 57 |
| Cardiovascular Disease and Heart Disease | ||
| High Blood Pressure and Stress | ||
| Cholesterol Levels | ||
| Diabetes | ||
| Cancer | ||
| Muscles and Bones | ||
| Gallstones | ||
| Reproductive and Hormonal Problems | ||
| Hypoxia | ||
| Sleep Apnea and Sleep Disorders | ||
| Binge Eating and Other Eating Disorders | ||
| Social and Emotional Problems | ||
| Childhood Obesity | ||
| Moose's Story | ||
| Chapter 5. | How Your Biology Affects Weight Loss | 71 |
| Predictors of Successful Weight Loss | ||
| Hunger Pangs | ||
| Low-Fat / High-Carbohydrate Diets | ||
| High-Protein / High-Fat Diets | ||
| Frequent Short Periods of Exercise | ||
| Other Factors | ||
| Why We Give Up On Diets | ||
| Chapter 6. | Diet Drugs | 81 |
| Over-the-Counter and Herbal Remedies | ||
| Prescription Diet Drugs | ||
| Experimental Therapies | ||
| Weight Loss Attempts | ||
| Chapter 7. | How Dieting Leads to Weight-Gain | 95 |
| Diary of a Diet | ||
| Studies of Yo-Yo Dieting | ||
| Feeling Full | ||
| Chapter 8. | The Problem with Diets | 101 |
| Loss of Lean Muscle Mass | ||
| Super-Absorbers | ||
| Brown Fat | ||
| Genetics vs. Lifestyle Choices | ||
| The Importance of Lifestyle Changes | ||
| Liposuction and Lipectomy | ||
| Faulty Studies | ||
| Life Isn't Weighed on the Bathroom Scales | ||
| Size-ism | ||
| Chapter 9. | Measuring Obesity | 113 |
| Body Mass Index | ||
| Waist Circumference | ||
| Determining Body-Fat Percentage | ||
| Metabolic Regulation of Weight | ||
| Genetic Factors | ||
| Chapter 10. | Healthy Attitudes | 118 |
| Insulin Resistance | ||
| "Set" Weight | ||
| A Different Attitude | ||
| Putting It to the Test | ||
| The Need for Love and Acceptance | ||
| Chapter 11. | Personal Stories | 131 |
| Introduction | ||
| Bill | ||
| Fatimah | ||
| Tom | ||
| Tammy | ||
| Lacy | ||
| Wanda | ||
| Grandma Pat | ||
| Ailene | ||
| Alice | ||
| Beverly | ||
| Tex | ||
| Keith | ||
| Phyllis | ||
| Deedee | ||
| Boris | ||
| Kiki | ||
| Sal & Sandy | ||
| Shirley | ||
| Deardra | ||
| Beth | ||
| Hanna | ||
| Ellie | ||
| Suzy | ||
| Commentary | ||
| Appendix I | Glossary | 206 |
| Appendix II | Sample Weight Loss Surgery Release Form | 224 |
| Appendix III | Helpful Web Sites | 233 |
| Appendix IV | Weight Loss Surgery Quiz | 234 |
| Appendix V | Success Stories | 239 |
| Index | 242 |
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