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Surgery Better Than Exercise for Obese Teens?
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For two years, researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, tracked the weight loss of two groups of 25 severely obese teens, who ranged in age from 14 to 18. One group focused their weight loss efforts by participating in a diet,
The surgery can help severely overweight and obese patients lose weight by restricting their food intake. A band is wrapped around the top of the stomach, bypassing the top of the intestines and the remaining portion of the stomach, which creates a feeling of fullness and can help reduce the amount of food and calories consumed.
Twenty-one of the teens who had the surgery lost more than half their body weight, compared to only three out of the exercise group. Additionally, those with gastric bypass lost an average of 28.3 percent while the second group only lost 3.1 percent, on average.
While these findings emphasize some of the positive impacts of gastric bypass surgery, it's worth it to not only note that the study was very small and, more importantly, gastric bypass surgery can pose serious risks and health complications, such as blood clots, violent stomach cramps, dizziness, pneumonia and, in rare cases, death.
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