For many Americans who have endured years and years of yo-yo dieting, the idea of weight loss surgery is becoming more and more alluring. Typical dieting is difficult, and more importantly, hard to maintain. For many overweight and obese people, weight loss surgeries are becoming the new way to lose weight and get healthy for life.
One weight loss surgery that is popular in both the US and Mexico is the sleeve gastrectomy. The sleeve gastrectomy reduces the stomach's capacity to hold food by 85%. This surgery involves stapling the stomach so it takes on the shape of a sleeve. Unlike the gastric bypass surgery, another popular weight loss surgery, the sleeve gastrectomy doesn't bypass the digestive system. In gastric bypass, the stomach is sectioned off, so food bypasses the bottom part of the stomach and beginning part of the small intestine, often resulting in side effects such as flatulence and reduction of nutrient absorption. Since the sleeve gastrectomy avoids obstructing the digestive path, uncomfortable side-effects accompanied by gastric bypass are avoided.
Fortunately for obese Americans, weight loss procedures are becoming more and more common both in the US and in Mexico. Many Americans go to Mexico to have weight loss surgeries performed because the quality of care in Mexico rivals that of the United States. Also, sleeve gastrectomy procedures and other weight loss surgeries are much cheaper in Mexico.
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