Bariatric Surgery: The Solution to Obesity?

Diet and exercise alone rarely help people lose weight and keep it off. Are operations the answer? Around two hundred thousand bariatric surgeries are performed in the US each year and there is strong concesus that bariatric surgery is effective. Once considered a high-risk and extreme measure has been transformed into a relatively standard, safe, and straightforward one.

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