Episode 50 - What About "Weight Loss" Surgery?
Does weight loss surgery make you thin? What percentage of people is it successful for? Are the side effects worth it and what are they exactly? This episode is a deep dive into bariatric surgery AKA "weight loss" surgery AKA stomach amputation. CW: There are mentions of the O Words, suicide rates and brief mention of calories.
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Long-term weight regain after gastric bypass: a 5-year prospective study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5459557_Long-term_Weight_Regain_after_Gastric_Bypass_A_5-year_Prospective_Study
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison: https://christyharrison.com/book-anti-diet-intuitive-eating-christy-harrison
Ethical Questions About Surgery Raised By Scientists: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/196339
Food Junk Science Blog: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/01/junkfood-science-weekend-special.html
Suicide Rates: https://bariatrictimes.com/understanding-postoperative-suicide-self-injury/#:~:text=Based%20on%20their%20analysis%2C%20the,3.2%E2%80%935.1%2F10%2C000
Kaitlin Anderle Who Had Surgery: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9B7HwSh3RM/
Roxane Gay - What Fullness Is: https://gay.medium.com/the-body-that-understands-what-fullness-is-f2e40c40cd75
Lindo Bacon on Bariatric Surgery: https://www.lindobacon.com/HAESbook/pdf_files/HAES_Bariatric-Surgery.pdf
Prevalence of alcohol use disorders before and after bariatric surgery: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682834/#:~:text=There%20is%20some%20evidence%20that
Mineral Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3771134/#:~:text=Bariatric%20surgery%20exacerbates%20preexisting%20malnutrition,with%20micronutrient%20supplementation%20following%20surgery.
Substance Use after Bariatric Surgery: A Review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4789154/
Early mortality among Medicare beneficiaries undergoing bariatric surgical procedures: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16234496/#:~:text=The%20rates%20of%2030%2Dday,001
All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Associated with Bariatric Surgery: A Review: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5055056/#:~:text=findings%20have%20emerged.-,Bariatric%20surgical%20patients%20have%3A%201
Survival among high-risk patients after bariatric surgery: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21666276/#:~:text=Results%3A%20Among%20patients%20who%20had,and%2015.2%25%20for%20nonsurgical%20controls.
Death Rates and Causes of Death After Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents, 1995 to 2004: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888907/
No evidence that bariatric surgeries save healthcare costs or save lives: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/no-evidence-that-bariatric-surgeries.html
Quote from Junkfood Science: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/02/rumor-versus-facts.html
“Facts
Risks of dying by car: According to the National Center for Health Statistics at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, your annual risk of dying from a motor-vehicle accident is 0.016%.
Risks of dying from a bariatric surgery: The most objective mortality data available (on actual deaths among all those who had all types of bariatric surgeries at Medicare-approved centers from 1997 to 2002) found that the first year death rate after surgery was 4.6%.
Risks of dying from obesity: Actual mortality rates according to body mass index among a 40-year study of 1.8 million people, found the very fattest 0.2% of women at age 35 had an annual risk of dying of 0.18% (compared to 0.13% for "normal" weight women). So, by having a bariatric surgery even the heaviest woman increases her risk of dying about 45-fold.”
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