What Does The Gastric Bypass Consist Of?
March 31st, 2008 by admin
The gastric bypass is essentially a two-part procedure. The first part of the operation drastically reduces the size of the stomach to restrict the amount of food that can be eaten. This is done by creating a new and very small stomach pouch from the top section of the existing stomach, which is often done by stapling off this section of the stomach. The second part of the operation is to then reconstruct the gastrointestinal tract and there are several different ways in which this can be done. In essence however the object here is to provide for the necessary digestion of food from the new stomach but, at the same time, to restrict the number of calories which can be absorbed during digestion. In essence therefore the object of the gastric bypass is to limit the amount of food that you can eat and also the number of calories which you can absorb from the food which you do eat.
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