Lap Band Surgery
Welcome to our informative page on lap band surgery and alternate weight loss methods. Herein you will find statistics about efficiency, mortality rate and other issues of gastric surgery procedures. In these pages, we will be comparing Lap–Band surgery to most other popular methods of weight loss. Also, we will cover the cost of lap band surgery (or laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding) versus the other methods. Since calorie intake can be a problem, we will also create a diet menu at your disposal, as well as an online body mass index calculator.
As you probably already know, the overweight and obesity rate is more and more alarming, in the United States Alone, about two thirds of the adult population (20 year olds – 74 year olds) is considered overweight or obese, that is about 133, 6 million Americans. Lap band surgery, however, can be performed only on about 9% of Americans, since this operation will not be performed on you (most of the time) unless you have a BMI of 35 or more. *
In our post-surgery section we explore the many possibilities of Lap–Band and tools for a healthy recovery. We will analyse the few reasons why Lap-Band is not for you, or why your treatment failed.
I am sure this site will answer many of your questions about weight loss surgery and its alternatives, pharmaceutical, dieting or otherwise.
The statistics presented here are based on the following definitions; Healthy weight = BMI bigger or equal to 18, 5 to smaller than 25, overweight BMI bigger or equal than 25 to smaller than 30, obesity bigger or equal to 30 BMI, extreme obesity BMI equal or higher than 40. Special thanks to the US department of health and human services for the statistics.