{"id":900,"date":"2011-03-29T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/?p=900"},"modified":"2011-03-29T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:20:48","slug":"gastric-bypass-for-diabetes-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2011\/03\/gastric-bypass-for-diabetes-weight-loss.html","title":{"rendered":"Gastric Bypass for Diabetes &amp; Weight Loss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about gastric bypass surgery before.\u00a0 I&#8217;m against it &#8212; it&#8217;s dangerous!\u00a0 You hear a lot about the wonders of drastic, dramatic weight loss from it, and see ads for it all over, but what you don&#8217;t hear are the negatives.\u00a0 There are a lot of people who have suffered extreme complications from having gastric bypass surgery, such as infections, digestive disorders, and not to mention, never learning how to really eat in a healthful way.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the American Diabetes Association has come out and recommended gastric bypass surgery, claiming that diabetes can be eliminated within hours after the surgery.\u00a0 Well, sure, lose weight and diabetes gets better, and sometime goes away entirely.\u00a0 But at what length of risk from the weight loss surgery?<\/p>\n<p>The point is this:\u00a0 you must ultimately change your lifestyle and food consumption!\u00a0 Even with the surgery.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the hardest part.\u00a0 Patients who have had it report that even when the weight sheds rapidly, what to do to maintain it is profoundly difficult.\u00a0 Eating less, and better quality, is what is required.\u00a0 Why not just do that in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have the will power to lose weight slowly and healthfully?\u00a0 No one does!\u00a0 THAT&#8217;S WHY IT TAKES A MIRACLE and total dedication.\u00a0 Making changes is easiest when they&#8217;re done simply and gradually.\u00a0 Not a sudden diet.\u00a0 Not a sudden surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of prayer and surrender to God, or your Higher Power works.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the most successful weight loss method.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/07\/gastric-bypass-its-about-money.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check out what I&#8217;ve written before, and the many comments here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about gastric bypass surgery before.\u00a0 I&#8217;m against it &#8212; it&#8217;s dangerous!\u00a0 You hear a lot about the wonders of drastic, dramatic weight loss from it, and see ads for it all over, but what you don&#8217;t hear are the negatives.\u00a0 There are a lot of people who have suffered extreme complications from having&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,21,8],"tags":[25,42,26,27,38,41],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-health","category-spiritual-weight-loss","category-weight-loss","tag-food-2","tag-gastric-bypass","tag-health-2","tag-healthy-eating","tag-prayer","tag-weight-loss-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gastric Bypass for Diabetes &amp; Weight Loss? - Dr. Norris J. 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