Obesity Surgery

Obesity surgery is on the increase and may be the only answer for some people. Learn the benefits and risks associated with this last resort to cure a growing problem.

• Bariatric Surgery
  Obesity: An estimated 170,000 weight loss surgeries will be performed in 2006. Vertical banded gastroplasty and roux-en-Y bypass are now being successfully conducted on patients as young as 13 years
  
  
• Lap Band Surgery
  As obesity in North America grows to become an epidemic, more and more obese and severly overweight people are turning to lap band surgery to help them lose weight