Weight reduction by surgery Bariatric surgery.

Overweight is a challenge for many people. It develops many problems like Blood Pressure, Diabetes, and Osteoarthritis etc

Main causes:
There are many causes for Overweight. It may be genetic in nature or may be due to modern life style without any exercise. In recent times fast food culture developed, which provides pizzas, burgers, butter etc. All these items supply very large quantities of calories to the body but we do not have sufficient exercise to spend these calories.

Generally we spend time in watching Television or browsing a computer, resulting in no physical work, leading to overweight and obesity.

Obesity:
Obesity means accumulation of more fat in a body.This is classified into different categories based on body mass index shortly BMI.

BMI can be calculated by the following method.

                Weight in Kilograms
BMI = ------------------------------------------------------
            (Height in meters x Height in meters)

Now the classification is as below.


BMI Index Status
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Below 18.5    Under Weight
18.5 to 24.9   Normal
25.0 to 29.9   Over Weight
30.0 to 34.9   Obese
40.0 to 50.0   Morbid Obesity
Above 50       Super Morbid Obesity

Generally people follow different methods for reducing their weight, such as regular exercise, yoga, life style modification etc.If all the above methods fail to give result and if the BMI ratio is above 40 it is better to consider Bariatric Surgery generally known as weight loss surgery.

There are two types in this Bariatric surgery. They are 1) Gastric bonding 2) Gastric bypass.

Qualified physician will decide the type of surgery for a patient.

In recent studies it is observed that it gives good results by reducing the ill effects of blood pressure and other diseases in patients