Tiny Bites

A Guide to Gastric Surgery for the Morbidly Obese

By: Saundra Beauchamp-Parke

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Paperback | 15 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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128 Pages

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14 x 21.5 x 1.4

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Morbid obesity, defined as the point at which a person's weight reaches life-threatening levels, is becoming more and more common. This book asks what it feels like to undergo the effective treatment of gastric surgery, and to adjust to living in a smaller, new body? The author outlines the practicalities considering, undergoing and recovering from gastric surgery. Her account should enable families and friends of sufferers to understand the problem better and allow people who are seriously overweight to realise they are not alone. Interwoven with the stories of people who have undergone the surgery, it is also a guide for health and social care professionals working with this group of clients.

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'It is estimated that there are approximately six million morbidly obese persons in the United States and that some 60,000 operations are performed annually in the hope of controlling the condition and its attendant diseases. Hence the need for this book which expresses the anguish, fears, hope and joy of those who have undertaken the journey from the chronic intractable, progressive immolation of morbid obesity towards the long wished for glorious anonymity of physical normality.' -from the foreword by Alex M.C. Macgregor, MD, FACS, FRCSEd, Past President, American Society for Bariatric Surgery

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