BARIATRIC SURGERY

Obesity used to be dismissed as a lack of self-control. It’s now seen as a life-threatening disease with links to diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and arthritis. In 2007 more than 140,000 obese men and women who’d failed at diet and exercise regimes turned in desperation to bariatric surgery. The goal: to alter the anatomy of the digestive system to absorb less food.

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