Surgical solutions Obesity surgery and the war on obesity

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Surgical solutions? Obesity surgery and the war
on obesity

• Dr Karen Throsby
• Department of Sociology
• University of Warwick

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Shell 2002 20

• Taking aim with his Endo-GIA II stapler, which
  cuts as well as rivets, he divides the stomach
  into two parts and staples the top portion in a
  twenty-milliliter pouch, about two tablespoons.
  Mun feels down the small intestine, past the
  duodenum to the jejunum, slices through the
  sausage like structure and nails it to the
  stomach pouch with his EEA circular stapler,
  creating a passageway the circumference of an
  MM. Mun regards the EEA fondly, and praises its
  smooth, powerful action. The device pits out
  sixty-four stainless steel staples at a trigger
  pull, accomplishing in a split second what once
  took long minutes of painstaking needlework.

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Ackerman 1999 197

• I have no doubt that someday there will be
  medication more effective than any operation for
  the treatment of morbid obesity. Appetite and
  satiation are complicated matters. When more is
  learned about the chemical reactions in the body
  that control appetite and satiation, a medical
  treatment of weight control should be feasible. I
  think its inevitable, but the only question is
  when will we have this knowledge. It still could
  be a long way off.

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Janet

• But over a period of sort of six months, the
  Reductil was gradually betting less and less
  effective. And I find, you know, I can diet, Ive
  been on the Slimming World diet, and Weight
  Watchers Ive done all of them, you know, the
  banana and milk diet, and theI havent done the
  cabbage soup diet, strangely. Thats one I
  havent done, but as I say, Ive done all of the
  weird and wonderful ones. I tried the Cambridge
  diet when that first can out years ago,
  ermmostly liquid replacements.

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Bill

• I felt Id tried absolutely everything else, and
  there was nothing else to try, and I couldnt
  face doing the same old things again and think
  that they would turn out any differently than the
  other times.

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Ken

• Life at two years out is a challenge. As for
  most people, maintaining the energy-intake output
  equation whilst balancing a busy life is
  difficult. Now I am at least in with a chance to
  take part.

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Renee Williams
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Joanne

• There are risks. I think probably, theres
  probably less risk for me. Because Im not huge
  at the momentI think the bigger you are, the
  higher the risk.

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Judith

• I was having some problems being sick and
  was making pretty unpleasant noises, burping,
  this, that and the other. And he got very annoyed
  one day and said Its unnatural. You shouldnt
  have had it done.

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