Gastric Bypass Truth

Stories like this just infuriate me.
In this week’s The Lancet, there’s a story of a British woman who underwent Gastric Bypass surgery, and returned to the hospital two short months later with some very frightening gastric bypass complications.

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A new study came out today that underscores the essential need to TAKE YOUR VITAMINS – especially your calcium.
As you lose weight, this study finds, you lose bone mass. This is one of the gastric bypass surgery complications you don’t want to mess with.

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Now I’m really starting to get ticked off.
In this post, I mentioned that I’d been to my one-year follow up appointment with my gastric bypass surgeon, and that he’d briefly read off my vitamin level results and pronounced everything fine.
Well, I started thinking that I’d like to have those test results so perhaps I could write a [...]

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Thanks again to Suzanne at the Thinner Times Forum. She posted this article from the National Association For Weight Loss Surgery. I love their tagline: “Because Weight Loss Surgery Isn’t Magic.”
How true! (Try telling it to the “easy way out” folks, tho!)
I’m guilty of #’s 6, 7 and 8. How about YOU?
The 10 Most Common [...]

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A study published in the May, 2008 American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition finds that regular multivitamins are NOT enough to prevent serious vitamin deficiencies after gastric bypass surgery.
Many doctors – including my own – prescribe nothing more than Flintstones vitamins plus a calcium supplement after surgery. Yet this study clearly shows that this recommendation is [...]

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This is something that anyone considering weight loss surgery MUST seriously consider. It is perhaps the most sobering of all risks, because this gastric bypass surgery complication can sneak up on you without much warning. And the consequences are dire.
The “bypass” part of gastric bypass involves bypassing the first section of the large intestine. This [...]

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