Don't be Blindsided Later in Life by Gastric Bypass Side Effects

As the number of gastric bypass procedures have surged, so have reports about all the dangerous side effects. The long-term success rate of gastric bypass surgery borders on 10 percent, and it is fraught with possible complications including:

• Bone loss
• Liver failure
• Immune system damage

And it also carries a good chance of simply killing you outright.

I'm not surprised in the least by this latest complication, especially considering many patients don't get enough vitamin A to being with, so any decrease can make them very prone to problems.

A reminder: Your best sources of vitamin A are natural ones, including:

• Cod liver oil
• Raw egg yolks
• Raw dairy products

As I've said before, when you use the wrong tool to "cure" any medical condition -- especially when it's a lifestyle-related medical concern like obesity -- you're virtually guaranteed to have problems. Of course, that hasn't stopped people, like the former half-ton man, from doing it anyway.

People tend to forget that they didn't gain all those extra pounds in a short time, and it will take considerably longer to lose it safely and smartly.

Gastric bypasses and balloon procedures provide permanent and very problematic solutions to a condition that can be more safely treated by making better lifestyle decisions. If you really want to treat obesity in a healthy way:

• Eat the foods your body burns best according to your body's unique nutritional type.
• Start an exercise plan, with the knowledge you must treat it like a drug that must be prescribed precisely to have the optimal effect.
• Treat the emotions that contribute to your poor health by learning an energy psychology tool like the Emotional Freedom Technique that can very effectively help resolve the underlying emotional cause of the overeating problem.