LAP BAND Surgery

Welcome to Lap Band Surgery web site. Almost every day, you see reports in the media about an amazing new diet or some new pill for weight loss. Even so, the number of people with a serious weight problem keeps going up. If you are one of those people, you probably already know that weighing more than you should is bad for your health.

If you are severely obese, you have higher risk for problems such as heart disease and diabetes. Plus, weighing more than you should can affect the way you feel about yourself. It can give you a negative self-image. It also can cause you to become socially isolated.

Surgical procedures for obesity (also called bariatric surgery, laparoscopic surgery, obesity surgery, ) may be appropriate for some dangerously obese people and may reduce risk factors for heart problems, including high blood pressure, sleep apnea, and diabetes. The object of most gastric surgery is to limit the amount food passing through the stomach and intestine.

The best remedy for being overweight is to exercise more while you eat less and eat sensibly. That way you can use up more energy than you take in and lose weight. A diet can help people lose weight. And some people can have success with drugs that make them feel less hungry. But over the long term, these methods don't work for everyone. Some people quickly regain the weight they lose on a diet. Some even end up weighing more. Drugs that make you feel less hungry do not usually produce weight loss that lasts.

If you've tried these methods and still have a problem with excess weight, you may want to consider surgery. Surgery can help some people lose weight and keep it off. This web page gives you important information about one type of lap band surgery used to treat severe obesity with the aid of the LAP BAND Adjustable Gastric Banding System.