On Fat 2 Fit Radio, we recently did a show on gastric bypass surgery. In fact it was an interview with a recipient of gastric bypass surgery. He had a standard gastric bypass, on where the duodenum is bypassed and the small intestine is re-attached to the smaller pouch that will now be the stomach. We also mentioned an alternative surgery, the lap band. Lap band is actually not the correct name for the surgery. The correct name is vertical band gastroplasty. It was mentioned, but not much information was given. Here is a video I found today that shows what happens in a vertical band gastroplasty surgery.
If you didn’t hear the podcast, check out show #20 over at Fat 2 Fit Radio.
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I am a recipient of the vbg. I had the surgery march 1,1990. then i was a whopping 330 lbs, today I wiegh om at 130 lbs.
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