Stomach Stapling
Stomach Stapling is a medical procedure whereby the stomach of an overweight person is surgically reduced in size by literally stapling it together to reduce its physical size, often to less than a quarter of its original size. Lets look at how this drastic surgical procedure works to help a lazy person to lose weight, or more importantly, as the surgery is really for, to help obese people to lose weight fast in order to preserve their health or even to save their life.
Stomach stapling is a procedure that should not be taken lightly. Its main purpose is to potentially save the life of a grossly overweight person who may die if their weight is not drastically checked. However, an increasing number of people who are not in any mortal danger from their weight are looking at stomach stapling as an alternative to what they perceive as a tough to follow and stick to weight loss program.
Basically, stomach stapling is viewd as a lazy person's way to lose weight without them having to do anything themselves. From their perspective, weight loss programs, diets, exercise regimes and the like are all far too much like hard work. In contrast, what they see as a simple procedure can rid them of the excess weight while they sit in front of the TV and carry on eating crap. Just not so much of it because they get full too fast!
While this might sound like a great idea, especially for someone looking for a truly lazy person's exercise routine, or a lazy person's way to weight loss, in actual fact it is rather more serious. The procedure comes with plenty of dangers, not least of those being that the staples can tear away and the stomach could rupture, if the patient tries to over-eat or drink a lot of liquid on top of moisture retentive foods such as rice, which swell up in the stomach. This is life threatening, because the patient can bleed to death internally before they realize anything is wrong. Other problems include the possibility of internal infection, scarring of the stomach walls from stretching, blockages in the digestive tract which can all lead to a hasty return to hospital and further corrective surgery.
At the end of the day, any surgery comes with a risk. If you are not prepared to take that risk, leave this procedure for those that truly need it because their life may depend upon it. There are other lazy ways to lose weight that are not so drastic, although they are also not so quick to see results.
Original Article Published: 30th June 2009
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