A pregnant woman has died of complications related to gastric bypass surgery. Her death occurred 18 months after she underwent the surgical procedure, and was apparently due to a tear in her small intestine that resulted from the gastric bypass surgical procedure. Here's how it happened -- when she was 8 months pregnant, she suddenly began suffering from stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting. She was admitted to the emergency room, where doctors discovered that her fetus had died and that her small intestine had herniated.
This is the first known incident of this type, but it is raising questions about the safety of gastric bypass surgery -- and more importantly, whether women who intend to get pregnant should be undergoing the procedure. This gastric bypass surgical procedure does involve, of course, removing parts of internal organs. This is something that is unnatural to the human body and a procedure that I have often described as barbaric. Now it turns out it may be a risk to unborn children as well as to the mother.
As many as 110,000 people are going to undergo gastric bypass surgery this year in the United States, and as it turns out, most of those patients are women. This procedure has seen a sudden rise in popularity due to positive publicity about how easy it is to lose weight by undergoing this radical procedure. Myself and many others have remained outspoken opponents of this procedure, not only because it involves a very risky operation that kills a reported 1% of all patients right on the operating table, but also because it maims the person for life. It removes important components of their digestive tract. It is similar to receiving a lobotomy for your stomach. And besides, there are much better ways to lose weight and reverse even morbid obesity.
Cutting into a patient with scalpels and surgical tools is not a method for lifetime weight loss. In fact, I believe that one day the procedure will be outlawed, and it will be looked upon as one of the last barbaric vestiges of conventional medicine and a society desperate to lose weight.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher, author and award-winning journalist with a passion for sharing empowering information to help improve personal and planetary health He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In mid 2010, Adams produced NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He's also the CEO of a highly successful email newsletter software company that develops software used to send permission email campaigns to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located at www.HealthRanger.org
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