Questions: Why Bariatric Surgery?

Bariatric surgery is the only proven consistently effective treatment for morbid obesity. Many studies have shown that dieting and exercise have limited effective relief once a person becomes morbidly obese.

Facts show only 1 percent or less of morbidly obese adults is able to shed even moderate amounts of body weight and keep the weight off for even a year. It is hard to lose weight and keep it off and it is even harder when you health worsens because of your weight.

In contrast, weight loss surgeries, gastric bypass and LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding System procedures, result in maintenance of average excess body weight loss of 40%- 60% at five years.

Bariatric surgery saves lives. A recent study comparing large populations of morbidly obese patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery to morbidly obese patients who did not undergo weight loss surgery showed an eighty-nine percent reduction in mortality risk in the patients who underwent the gastric bypass surgery. The patients who did not undergo bariatric surgery had a ten-fold higher mortality rate at five years compared to the surgery group. The risk of undergoing bariatric surgery is simply far less than the risk of remaining morbidly obese.

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- Are You a Weight Loss Surgery Candidate?
- Bariatric Surgery Questions
- Weight Loss Options
- After Weight Loss Surgery?

To learn more about our Weight Loss Surgery Program, you are invited to attend an information session held at Florida Hospital Celebration Health.

Meet the surgeon, office staff, previous surgical weight loss patients, and get the opportunity to know if this is an option for you.

To enroll, call 1-888-303-4504 or click here.