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Filed under: Adoption, Health & Safety: Babies, Nutrition: Health
Currently, if a teenager wants to receive gastric banding (or the lap band) in order to lose weight, she'll have to go one of the few hospitals in the country that offer the procedure.
The Food and Drug Administration has allowed three US hospitals to preform the procedure, which one doctor referred to as "the way to go." It could be a couple more years before other hospitals could also get in on the action.
In fact, one hospital that is able to preform the procedure recently opened a weight-loss surgery center for teens. According to the article, thirty percent of American teens are overweight and fifteen percent are obese.
In case you're interested in the difference between gastric bypass or lap band, click here to see the differences.
What do you feel? Is this an issue that should be between the patient/parent and doctor or should these types of surgery not be allowed?
The Food and Drug Administration has allowed three US hospitals to preform the procedure, which one doctor referred to as "the way to go." It could be a couple more years before other hospitals could also get in on the action.
In fact, one hospital that is able to preform the procedure recently opened a weight-loss surgery center for teens. According to the article, thirty percent of American teens are overweight and fifteen percent are obese.
In case you're interested in the difference between gastric bypass or lap band, click here to see the differences.
What do you feel? Is this an issue that should be between the patient/parent and doctor or should these types of surgery not be allowed?
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