Weight Loss Surgery in New Jersey:

Across New Jey, the number of overght and obese individuals is rapidly increasing. In fact, almost 59% of the population of the Garden State is overght or obese. Our kids are gaining ght, too: 14% of children in New Jey are obese, and the rate is rising year by year. We have reached the point where obty is a te-wide health crisis.
Obty kills. It brings, misery, heartache, and promotes serious illnesses, such as sleep apnea, arthritis, heart conditions, diabetes and hypertension.
It is a threat to our te that must be faced.

Getting Fit
Obty is a disease - and one that's difficult to treat. Wht loss itself is no problem: when the body's daily oric intake falls below the amount of ories needed to y alive, the body begins to burn fat, ulting in ght loss. The difficulty comes in tricting oric intake - and overriding the primal urge to eat either to ve off hunger, or ve off uncomfortable emotions, like fear, anger and grief.
Aye, there's the rub: Many obty suffer use eating as a substitute for unmet psychologi needs. Oth are food addicts, plagued by a maddening urge to conntly eat. Many non-obese people see these behaviors as being signs of ponal weakness on the part of the obese.
They're not. Obty is a disease, not a character flaw. Fad diets and the like can cause a pon to lose ght, but seldom permanly. Those who try such gimmicks often suffer damage to their health. Obty can be successfully treated only by a complete change in the pati's lifestyle and eating habits. For some, support groups and willpower are enough to accomplish this. For oth, surgi intervion may be the treatm of last ort - and the one that saves their life.

About Wht Loss Surgery
Wht loss surgery is performed with the pati under general anestha, and usually with a laparoscope. There are three basic bariatric surgi procedu--malabsorptive, trictive, and combination. Each poses differing risks and benefits, but all work by the same principle: by surgily altering the pati's stomach or digestive tract, the procedure limits the amount of food the pati can eat. These alterations cause the pati to take in fewer ories each day than he or she burns, ulting in the loss of excess ght.
The surgery only works as part of a total medi treatm plan, however. Patis who fail to follow the plan may regain any ght lost. The decision to have ght loss surgery is also almost always irrevocable, since most procedu cannot be reved.

Let's Do It!
New Jey is a tough te. By treating obty as a disease rather than a weakness, we can beat this health crisis, and promise the rds of our te a brighter future.