Health News -- Bariatric surgery has given hundreds of thousands of severely overweight people, who had little or no success achieving a healthy weight through traditional methods, a new lease on life. By restricting food intake and, in some operations, interrupting the digestive process to prevent the absorption of some calories and nutrients, the procedure not only promotes weight loss but also improves or resolves conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, obstructive sleep apnea, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Recent studies suggest that bariatric surgery may even have a favorable impact on mortality rates in severely obese patients.
