Posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 at 1:30 pm CDT
In recent years, weight loss surgery has been on the minds of Americans as fitness and healthy living become not only fashionable, but necessary, as standards of good health and proper body image become further ingrained in our culture. Surgical procedures such as gastric bypass and lap band, both of which can assist properly-informed patients with losing tremendous amounts of weight, are raising in popularity not only for cosmetic reasons, but as methods of saving lives.
Source: National Bariatric Link