Obesity Surgery

Gut Health: Taking care of your gut is important for many reasons. Acidity, bloating and constipation are all instances of poor gut health. If you have tried enough remedies for these conditions and nothing worked, read this.

Bariatric surgery is a common surgery which people get done for weight loss. This surgery is usually done by people who are suffering with obesity-related health problems and those who failed to lose weight despite making the efforts.

Delhi boy Mihir Jain weighed 237 kg at the age of 14. His weight affected his ability to walk or breathe properly and he had to undergo a weight-reduction surgery.

By weighing their patients, doctors are following established guidelines. But by doing this, doctors risk their patient's mental and psychological health.

Obese patients, who go through a weight loss surgery, are more likely to commit suicide as compared to the rest, who choose other ways of losing weight.

Obese middle-aged men and women who undergo bariatric surgery for weight loss may have reduced their risk of death by 50 per cent than those tackling their weight through diet and behaviour alone.

So if you are obese, you must read this one.

People who undergo joint surgery, such as joint replacements for arthritis, are more likely to become dependent in the years following surgery if they are obese, warns a study

Obesity can make daily living tough post heart surgery, reveals a new study. Obese adults could be at an increased risk of poor body functioning post surgery too.

Weight loss surgery is also known as the metabolic surgery. It is done on the stomach and the intestine and is not the same thing as liposuction.

Eman Ahmed, a 36-year old Egyptian woman, who was the world's heaviest woman until January this year, can now finally sit up in her bed all thanks to her medical team which made this possible.

Muffazal Lakdawala, the bariatric surgeon who treated the Egyptian national Eman Ahmed for obesity, has warned her family against shifting her to a hospital in the UAE.

Egyptian national Eman Ahmed, who was being treated in Mumbai for obesity, would be shifted to a hospital in UAE's Abu Dhabi soon. However, Ms Ahmed, who had arrived in Mumbai on a chartered cargo plane, would leave as a business class passenger on a regular flight.

Eman's counterpart Juan Pedro of Mexico, the heaviest man in the world is also all set to undergo a bariatric surgery next month.

Every ten kilograms of extra weight reduces life by three years. An obese person with a 50 kg of extra weight has already shortened his life by nearly 15 years. Commonly associated diseases like diabetes, heart problem, joint pains and risk of developing cancer may even shorten the life span of the person.

Gut Health: Taking care of your gut is important for many reasons. Acidity, bloating and constipation are all instances of poor gut health. If you have tried enough remedies for these conditions and nothing worked, read this.

Bariatric surgery is a common surgery which people get done for weight loss. This surgery is usually done by people who are suffering with obesity-related health problems and those who failed to lose weight despite making the efforts.

Delhi boy Mihir Jain weighed 237 kg at the age of 14. His weight affected his ability to walk or breathe properly and he had to undergo a weight-reduction surgery.

By weighing their patients, doctors are following established guidelines. But by doing this, doctors risk their patient's mental and psychological health.

Obese patients, who go through a weight loss surgery, are more likely to commit suicide as compared to the rest, who choose other ways of losing weight.

Obese middle-aged men and women who undergo bariatric surgery for weight loss may have reduced their risk of death by 50 per cent than those tackling their weight through diet and behaviour alone.

So if you are obese, you must read this one.

People who undergo joint surgery, such as joint replacements for arthritis, are more likely to become dependent in the years following surgery if they are obese, warns a study

Obesity can make daily living tough post heart surgery, reveals a new study. Obese adults could be at an increased risk of poor body functioning post surgery too.

Weight loss surgery is also known as the metabolic surgery. It is done on the stomach and the intestine and is not the same thing as liposuction.

Eman Ahmed, a 36-year old Egyptian woman, who was the world's heaviest woman until January this year, can now finally sit up in her bed all thanks to her medical team which made this possible.

Muffazal Lakdawala, the bariatric surgeon who treated the Egyptian national Eman Ahmed for obesity, has warned her family against shifting her to a hospital in the UAE.

Egyptian national Eman Ahmed, who was being treated in Mumbai for obesity, would be shifted to a hospital in UAE's Abu Dhabi soon. However, Ms Ahmed, who had arrived in Mumbai on a chartered cargo plane, would leave as a business class passenger on a regular flight.

Eman's counterpart Juan Pedro of Mexico, the heaviest man in the world is also all set to undergo a bariatric surgery next month.

Every ten kilograms of extra weight reduces life by three years. An obese person with a 50 kg of extra weight has already shortened his life by nearly 15 years. Commonly associated diseases like diabetes, heart problem, joint pains and risk of developing cancer may even shorten the life span of the person.