Weight loss surgery is an operation that is performed in order to effectively treat people with extreme and excessive obesity. Evidence suggests that weight loss surgery may lower death rates for patients with severe obesity, especially when coupled with healthy eating and lifestyle changes after surgery.

Bariatric surgery is an option that is too often ignored or dismissed. Yet it is the only option that almost always works to help very heavy people lose a lot of weight and that also can make some chronic conditions vanish.

Principles of Weight Loss Surgery

The basic principle of weight loss surgery is to restrict food intake and decrease the absorption of food in the stomach and intestines.