Severe Morbid Obesity
A friend of mine was suffering from morbid obesity. She had tried dieting, but nothing she did worked. The weight would all come back. One day she told me she was going to have weight loss surgery.
There are multiple reasons why those with morbid obesity want to lose weight besides skin deep beauty. Shedding those pounds will lower your blood pressure, help normalize your cholesterol levels, alleviate type 2 diabetic issues, and improve your cardiovascular condition.
If you are overweight and want a quick and permanent way to take off the pounds, you actually have a few options. Weight loss surgery is growing in popularity because it can have more permanent effects then many fad diets. There are a few weight loss surgeries and options for you to choose from.
One option growing in popularity to help with morbid obesity is vertical sleeve Gastrectomy (commonly referred to as bariatric surgery). This operation goes by a few names, including: Greater Curvature Gastrectomy, Parietal Gastrectomy, Gastric Reduction and even Vertical Gastroplasty. Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy encourages weight loss by reducing the amount of food your stomach can hold by separating the stomach into two sections, or performing a Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy. One section continues to act as the stomach while the other part no longer has a function. There is no bypass of the intestines or malabsorption. Instead, during this weight loss surgery, they make the stomach pouch smaller by reducing it by up to 85%. Vertical sleeve Gastrectomy surgery is not reversible like the Lapband weight loss surgery.
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How much have Movies Contributed to Morbid Obesity
I was watching Home Alone 2 last night with my son and when the movie got to the scene where Kevin was in the luxurious hotel room with the room service employee fixing a huge ice cream sundae for him, my son then asked for Ice Cream. I felt like Ice Cream too even though its pretty cold here at the moment, so we got in the car and went to the store to buy some. Well we bought our ice cream and came back home and as I was eating it something occurred to me. We had just been totally duped by a movie. As I thought about this all day, I can remember many scenes in different movies and even television shows where food is held in this luxurious light. Thing of how many times you watch something that invokes this sort of response in you.
So I ask, is the movie and television industries somewhat responsible for the morbid obesity of a lot of people within the United States and even the world. I can’t really comment on television outside of the US as I have not seen a lot of these types of shows, but I imagine they are similar. Advertising is a way of life and we are always constantly subjected to it. This has probably contributed to the tripling of morbid obesity in adults over the past few years.
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