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Gastric bypass surgery should be a last resort, not a choice of convenience

An article in USA Today talks about Raechel Arnold -- a teenage girl who has undergone gastric bypass surgery and managed to lose a significant amount of weight, dropping from 323 lbs to 165 lbs. The article reads like a brochure for gastric bypass surgery, showing just how successful the procedure has been for this girl.

This is all part of a recent wave of publicity for gastric bypass surgery as a treatment for obesity, but there's a problem with this approach to surgical procedures and the related publicity in the national press: Too many people are turning to gastric bypass surgery as a choice of convenience -- because they're simply not interested in doing the other things that can help a person lose weight, such as making new food choices or engaging in regular physical exercise.

Interestingly, most people end up making these changes after they've had gastric bypass surgery, except now they're missing part of their digestive tract, and the damage to their bodies simply cannot be reversed.

In this case, Raechel says she tried in vain to lose weight...

Read more at News Target