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		<title>Lap Band Surgery &#8211; How Much Weight Can I Lose? Nurse&#8217;s Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imaginary Diva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're considering lap band surgery or just beginning to think about lap band surgery as a solution to your weight problems and wondering how much weigh you can lose, I will try to answer this in this short article. This is one of the questions I'm most often asked along with the cost.

If you're just considering the lap band system because you're just a little overweight then the lap band procedure is not for you. Candidates for lap band surgery have serious obesity issues and this is called being "morbidly obese." There is a way to determine that through the body mass index scale - the BMI as it is called and you're probably familiar with it.]]></description>
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		<title>Teen Gastric Lap Band &#8211; Medical Tourism Corporation Assists 13 Year Old Get Weight Loss Surgery in Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.thebikinibodydiet.com/2008/08/teen-gastric-lap-band-medical-tourism-corporation-assists-13-year-old-get-weight-loss-surgery-in-mexico.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imaginary Diva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen-year-old Jesse Miller returns home today after having a gastric lap band surgery done in Tijuana, Mexico. By doing this, he becomes one of the very rare American teenagers who have undergone lap band surgery. 

In the U.S., no one under 16 has had a gastric lap band. But this didn't bother Jesse's mother much about visiting Mexico for the procedure: "Most parents don't realize what their obese children go through. I was obese as a child and I know what it means. I did not want my son to suffer the same tribulations of being overweight," she says. 

"Jesse weighed 320 pounds and would have gained 50 to 75 additional pounds in the next six months, and that would have affected his health a lot.]]></description>
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		<title>Body Contouring Surgery Risk Rises with Increased Body Mass Index</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imaginary Diva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study investigating the relationship between complications of body contouring surgery and body mass index has confirmed an increase in the occurrence of such complications with worsening degree of obesity. Findings from the study are published in the July/August 2008 issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, the peer-reviewed publication of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS).

In order to determine the degree of risk associated with obesity when undergoing body contouring surgery, a retrospective review was conducted of 129 patients who underwent a single body contouring procedure from 1993 and 2002. Patients were categorized based on their body mass index (BMI), clinical degree of being overweight, into groups including ideal (BMI <25), overweight (BMI 25-30), obese (BMI 31-35), morbidly obese (BMI 36-40), and severely morbidly obese (BMI >41).]]></description>
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		<title>Weight Loss Surgery Without Incisions? It&#8217;s a First in San Francisco</title>
		<link>http://www.thebikinibodydiet.com/2008/05/weight-loss-surgery-without-incisions-its-a-first-in-san-francisco.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 16:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imaginary Diva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noted bariatric surgeon and pioneer of the vertical sleeve gastrectomy, <a href="http://www.lapsf.com/meet-your-bariatric-surgeons-for-weight-loss-surgery.php" target="new">Dr. Paul Cirangle</a> of the bariatric surgical practice Laparosopic Associates of San Francisco, is the first in San Francisco to perform StomaphyX™, incisionless weight loss surgery. The StomaphyX™ is a fastening device approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in early 2007 that is inserted down the esophagus to the decrease the size of the stomach pouch. 

StomaphyX™is for patients that have undergone either gastric bypass, vertical sleeve gastrectomy or the duodenal switch and have not reached their goal weight due to setbacks ranging from an expanded pouch to post-operative complications. It is already gaining popularity due to its advantages.]]></description>
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		<title>Stomach Shrinking Without The Surgery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Imaginary Diva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister told me that a childhood friend recently underwent a vertical banded gastroplasty surgery.  

VBG, or commonly known as stomach stapling, is a common restrictive operation for weight control and is usually recommended as a surgical treatment for morbid obesity.  It helps the weight loss process by limiting the amount of food portion that can be eaten at one sitting and a reduction of about 65% to 80% of excess body weight is expected as a result of the surgery.

Eventhough VBG is becoming more attractive to dieters looking for a way to lose the excess weight without having to rely on goold ol' fashioned will power, I still was very surprised to hear that she spent about $20,000 of her retirement money for a surgery that I wasn't sure she really needed.  ]]></description>
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