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How The LAP-BAND Works
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Diets don’t work. Diets are based on a simple formula – eat less and you lose weight, but when you get off the diet, more often than not, you regain the weight and even more. That is because the body is designed to avoid starvation, and every diet you go on your body believes you are starving.
Tags: LAP-BAND, weight loss surgery
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The LAP-BAND and Diabetes
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Weight loss is the single best preventive medicine for diabetes. A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that the laparoscopic adjustable LAP-BAND had more resolution of diabetes (type II) as well as normalization of the hemoglobin A1C, than those who were placed in a program of conventional therapy.
In this study there were two groups of individuals: one group had “conventional diabetes therapy with a focus on weight loss by lifestyle change.” This group did not do as well as the patients who underwent laparoscopic adjustable laparoscopic banding (LAP-BAND).
Tags: prevention of Diabetes, Type II Diabetes, Weight Loss
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