Gastric Bypass Fatality Gauge

Gastric bypass, a.k.a bariatric surgery is this procedure that is known to cause one to lose weight because it makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass parts of the small intestine. This will consequently make one feel full a lot quickly than when the stomach is in its original size. When food bypass some parts of the small intestine some calories don’t get absorbed easily, too, which also adds to the weight loss effect of this surgery.

gastric bypass before and after

If you are considering to undergo a weight loss surgery procedure such as gastric bypass but are scared of its risks, there is now a scoring sytem that may help measure the chances of dying from the procedure.

The scoring system was first proposed in 2006 by Duke University Medical surgeons and has been validated in a new study with 4,400 participants.

The factors considered to get a good estimation of whether a person is at risk of dying from gastric bypass include the patient’s age, gender, blood pressure, weight, and the risk of developing a blood clot in the lungs.

Physicians using the system can easily determine if their patients’ risk of dying from the surgery is low, medium or high. The new analysis found that patients in the high-risk group were six times more likely to die than those in the low-risk group, and patients in the medium-risk group were three times more likely to die.

Details of this Simple System that Accurately Predicts Weight-Loss Surgery Risk

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by Alfa - Losing Weight Zone
05-07-2007

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Another Factor Discovered Why Soy Can Help Lose Weight

soy protein helps lose weight Soy is well-known to help those who wishes to lose weight because its protein has plenty of isoflavones that. Aside from having low-calorie content, here are the popular actions caused by its isoflavone content that soy carries out to affect weight loss efforts:

1. Soy decreases the ability of the body to store fat.

2. Soy helps increase the muscle mass, which helps burn more fat than fat tissues.

Now this growing interest in soy as a food that helps people in performing well on their weight loss programs has made more researchers curious as to the real benefits of its protein. And just recently, a study acquired results that soy does not signal the body to reduce food intake but affects metabolism in stead, which causes weight loss.

Research shows that when soy consumption goes up, weight goes down. A new University of Illinois study may help scientists understand exactly how that weight loss happens.

“We wanted to compare the effects of soy protein hydrolysates and soy peptides with those of leptin because we hypothesized that soy might behave in the body in a similar way. Leptin is a hormone produced in our adipose tissue that interacts with receptors in the brain and signals us that we’re full so we stop eating,” said Elvira de Mejia, a U of I assistant professor of food science and human nutrition.

The researchers wanted to see if soy protein hydrolysates could affect these regulatory hormones and their receptors.

“And we found that soy did have an effect on these mechanisms and hormones that are induced in the body to help us degrade lipids and reduce body weight, but it did so by boosting metabolism and not by reducing food intake,” she said.

More details of this study showing another clue as to why soy promotes weight loss.