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The term, obese, is used to describe those who carry around an excess amount of weight. In more definitive terms, individuals with a BMI over 30 are considered to be obese. If you are finding yourself falling into this category, you are not alone; in fact, about 60 to 70 percent of Americans are either overweight or obese. The dangers of a heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, and many more illnesses are at a much higher level for those individuals who remain obese.

You may think the solution to this situation is easy: lose weight. However, weight loss is not easy for all individuals. Some individuals, no matter how hard they try, are simply not able to lose the weight that is posing a danger to their health. The conventional measures of diet and exercise simply do not work for everyone. Once you have unsuccessfully tried diet and exercise, your doctor may recommend weight loss surgery as the final alternative.

One of the most common weight loss surgeries today is known as gastric bypass. The main idea of gastric bypass surgery is actually quite simple: reduce the size of the stomach and bypass part of the small intestine. In order to further explore gastric bypass, we will journey further into the most commonly performed gastric bypass surgery: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. This type of gastric bypass begins with using surgical stapes or a plastic band to section off a small part of the stomach. This newly created smaller section of the stomach is then routed directly to the small intestine. This effectively eliminates, or bypasses, a large portion of the stomach. This leaves the patient with a smaller stomach that is simply unable to hold as much food. When the stomach is re-routed to the small intestine, the surgeon will reconnect the stomach at a lower point in the small intestine. By bypassing a portion of the small intestine, the patient’s body will simply be unable to absorb as many calories in the food they eat.

After a short recovery period, patients that undergo gastric bypass begin to naturally lose weight through one of two ways. First, patients are not able to eat as much as they did before the gastric bypass because their stomach is smaller. This naturally results in a reduction of caloric intake. Second, the patient’s body is not able to absorb as many calories because of the decreased amount of time the food spends in the small intestine. For each of these reasons, a patient that undergoes gastric bypass will take their health out of the danger zone by naturally and effectively losing the excess weight.