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Don’t rush into weight loss
surgery. Typically, two years pass from the time a person first
thinks about having weight loss surgery to the time they make
the commitment to have it done. Talk to family and friends, talk
to the surgeon and people at the hospital. Approach this major
decision thoughtfully.
First Steps
Toward Weight Loss Surgery
More than 60 million obese people
are living in the U.S., according to the American Obesity
Association (AOA), and about 9 million are severely obese.
Weight loss surgery, also called bariatric surgery, can be
successful when diet and exercise have failed, and a person's
health is on the line. Overweight is the second leading cause of
preventable death in the U.S., after smoking, according to the
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