Heart Health

Obesity or corpulence, is malnutrition more prevalent in developed countries. This health condition is like a spider’s web. Once you’re obese, you’re at risk of a variety of other health conditions, mental and physical.

It causes type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, depression etc. This is the sad cost of obesity. This translates to health care expenditures that are directly and indirectly caused by obesity.

In the United States, an estimated cost of obesity is 12% of the national health care budget, studied by the World Watch Institute and the World Bank. In a 1999 Lewin Group study commissioned by the American Obesity Association, the direct health care cost of obesity reached $102.2 billion. It shows a rise from 5.7% of the national health care budget directed to obesity (from a 1994 study) to the 9.8% of health expenses from the 1999 Lewin… Read More…

In Minimally invasive Surgeries like gastric Banding procedures, or Lap-Band surgery, a band is placed around to make a little stomach pouch. This reduces the longing to graze during the day between meals.

One of the major benefits of Lap-Band surgery over different forms of bariatric surgeries is that it is inconspicuous and revertible method. Lap Band surgery is gave using general anesthesia and can be provided laparoscopically, meaning no giant cuts need to be performed.

The whole thing can be done via a small slit or hole. The band is pulled into a opening made close to the high of the abdomen and fixed round the stomach; no actual cuts are made on the stomach itself. When the Lap Band is in place and adjusted, the hole is sewn up with a a small number of stitches. The band can be without difficulty removed during the identical method at… Read More…