COMBINATION OF SURGERY AND DIET AND THE FATTEST HEAVIEST MAN IN THE WORLD LOSES HUNDREDS OF POUNDS OF WEIGHT HE PLANS TO STAND AT HIS WEDDING

I am fascinated or at least very interested in weight loss gastric bypass surgery. I thought about gastric bypass and obesity again while I was watching a report about the world's fattest, the world's heaviest person Manuel Uribe. I know two teenagers who have recently had gastric bypass surgery and have lost a lot of weight and are happy with the results. Even so, any surgery including gastric bypass surgery has significant risks and these must be considered.

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Anyway Uribe, the world's fattest man or at least he was the world's heaviest has dropped a lot of weight through a combination of surgery and a diet. It's quite an inspiration to read his story. Uribe has a girlfriend. Apparently his romance is a big part of his motivation to lose weight. One of his goal's is to stand at his wedding. And of course it helps when you have people, like his girlfriend, who care about you and are there for you. Uribe "dubbed the world's fattest by the Guinness Book of World Records has dropped 570 pounds, nearly half his body weight, according to a report from the French news agency". Uribe had surgery but it was not gastric bypass weight surgery rather it was surgery to remove a tumor and some tissue. The surgery did remove more than a hundred pounds of fat and tissue. He has however with the help of doctors lost an additional hundreds of pounds of weight.











"Manuel Uribe, 42, weighed 1,257 pounds at his heaviest. He was bed-ridden for five years and doctors from the United States, Italy and Mexico have been helping Uribe lose weight through dieting and exercise for the past two years, it is reported". According to the Wikipedia entry "Uribe was halfway to a picnic near his Monterrey-area home on March 9, 2008, to celebrate his girlfriend's birthday, when one of the posts holding a tarpaulin over his bed to shield him from the sun hit an overpass, so he had to return home for health reasons. His weight loss efforts continue.

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It goes on "devotion to the Zone Diet has been the only weight loss program to have such a positive impact on the Mexican man, whose weight once topped 1,200 pounds. Dr. Barry Sears, along with Dr. Silvia Orozco Avina and Dr. Gustavo Orozco Avina, are at the helm of the interdisciplinary team of doctors, nutritionists and exercise physiologists who continue to work diligently to help Manuel reach his goal and his birthday".



"Manuel's current diet consists of about 2,000 calories per day broken up into six meals. His specially designed menu includes a wide variety of meals including egg-white omelets, fresh salads, chicken fajitas and fish fillet in a bed of spring greens".

GASTRIC BAND WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY FOR OBESE DIABETES STUDY SAYS DIABETICS DID BETTER WITH GASTRIC BAND WEIGHT LOSS THAN WITH CONVENTIONAL THERAPY

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In a study called Adjustable Gastric Banding and Conventional Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes researchers divided obese people with Type 2 diabetes into two groups. One group of obese diabetics got weight loss surgery, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding and the other group of diabetics got conventional diabetes therapy with a focus on weight loss by lifestyle change. The researchers found that "participants randomized to surgical therapy were more likely to achieve remission of type 2 diabetes through greater weight loss. These results need to be confirmed in a larger, more diverse population and have long-term efficacy assessed".

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"The study, of 60 patients, showed that 73 percent of those who had the gastric banding surgery had complete remissions of diabetes, meaning all signs of the disease went away. By contrast, the remission rate was only 13 percent in those given conventional treatment, which included intensive counseling on diet and exercise for weight loss, and, when needed, diabetes medicines like insulin, metformin and other drugs". Type 2 diabetes is the more common form of diabetes. Doctors have known for some time that weight loss tends to improve Type 2 diabetes. It tends to appear in older people and can be due to a lack of sensitivity of the insulin receptors in the body. Type 2 diabetes is more likely to be treated with pills than insulin shots.

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"The operation used in the study, adjustable gastric banding, is performed through small slits and loops a band around the top of the stomach to cinch it into a small pouch so that people eat less and yet feel full".

Adjustable Gastric Banding and Conventional Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes

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RISKS REWARDS OF GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY VERSUS DIETING: IN WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY EXPERIENCE COUNTS

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Often a topic for comedians, weight is not so funny when you are fighting a long battle, dieting with little to show to control excess weight that colors every part of your existence from your health to your social life. Many people have chosen gastric bypass surgery.










A New England Journal of Medicine research article found that gastric bypass surgery is beneficial. "In fact, the benefit is quite dramatic. The authors studied 9,949 patients who had undergone weight loss surgery, and compared them to a control group of 9,628 severely obese individuals who did not have the surgery".




They wrote an article about weight loss, diets and gastric bypass surgery. One is an economist and the other a writer but as they discussed the pros and cons of weight loss surgery and dieting in their New York Times column "The Stomach Surgery Conundrum", the authors of Freakonomics totally neglected to mention this article,one of the most important New England Journal research paper about weight loss surgery and it's consequences.




As the Freakonomics boys do point out when it comes to doing surgery experience counts. You want a doctor who does many bariatric weight loss procedures. "Technological innovations, especially the use of laparoscopic procedures (using a tube that is inserted through an incision in the abdominal wall so it's less invasive) have made for considerable gains in safety and efficacy. While the operation is still dangerous in some circumstances — one study found that for a surgeon’s first 19 bariatric operations, patients were nearly five times as likely to die than patients that the surgeon later operated on — the overall mortality rate is now in the neighborhood of 1 percent.

The editorial in the New England Journal also points out that the lowest surgical mortality is seen among surgeons who have performed more than 50 operations and preferably more than 100 operations.



After gastric bypass surgery there was a significant reduction particularly from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. However, the rate from causes other than disease was higher in the surgery group than in the control group".

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Dubner and Levitt also say that "a significant fraction of postbariatric patients acquire new addictions like gambling, smoking, compulsive shopping or alcoholism once they are no longer addicted to eating". In fact, the New England article does say that "Despite reductions in disease-related deaths after gastric bypass surgery, the risk of non–disease-related death, such as accidents and suicides, increased by a factor of 1.58, as compared with that in the control group. Reports reveal that a substantial number of severely obese persons have unrecognized presurgical mood disorders or post-traumatic stress disorder or have been victims of childhood sexual abuse".

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"Not only do most patients keep off a significant amount of weight but the other medical problems that accompany obesity are also often assuaged. One recent analysis found that 77 percent of bariatric-surgery patients with Type 2 diabetes experienced “complete resolution” of their diabetes after the procedure; the surgery also helps eliminate hypertension and sleep apnea. From an economic standpoint, research suggests that the operation can pay for itself within a few years because a postbariatric patient now requires less medical care and fewer prescriptions. That’s why some insurance companies cover bariatric surgery — as more do, it will likely lead to a further spike in the volume of operations".

Long-Term Mortality after Gastric Bypass Surgery (this is a pdf)

Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: The Stomach-Surgery Conundrum

Freakonomics The Stomach-Surgery Conundrum

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Bandings