The truth about Gastric Bypass Surgery! (Press Release)

Sunday, July 31, 2005 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: health news, Natural News, nutrition

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"With the growing popularity of Gastric Bypass comes the need for an open dialog about the risks and truth. This issue is not black and white. We can not say we are "for" or "against" Gastric Bypass Surgery, as it does benefit some people, but others it brings great heartache. We must move forward in a unified front against obesity. Obesity is the enemy, not a particular diet, a certain food or the person dealing with the problem.

Lifestyle change, permanently changing one's actions from those that support excess weight to those that support a life of health and wellness is the only answer that will work for everyone. A person can have their stomach stapled, but they still have to change their lifestyle to have any hope of losing weight and most importantly, keeping it off!"--Julia Havey

One recent bypass patient wrote that 44 days after her surgery that she experienced "dumping"--after eating 1/4 of a DQ Blizzard. At day 44, she should only be eating "full liquids or pureed and soft foods" (Mary P Mc Gowan, Gastric Bypass Surgery, Mc Graw Hill). In a time that a person can get their stomach stapled and be put on a 12 week "diet of tablespoons of liquid/semi-liquid foods" (Gastric Bypass Surgery--Mary McGowen, MD) rather of being told the tough love message that, ice-cream, chips, a liter of soft drink, 5 candy bars a day or other such "vices" are what is wrong with them, not the size of their stomachs, someone needs to step up to the plate and deliver the truth.

Who better to give the overweight and Obese Amercians the bad news that they "can't eat all they want, of whatever they want and still lose weight" or "that once you have you stomach stapled, you still have to go through a lifestyle change" than someone who has 'been there and done that'.

Julia is that person. Julia Griggs Havey lived for many years in a morbidly obese body, topping the scale at 290 pounds. She sought every weight loss gimmick offered, trying to shed the unwanted pounds, yet remained obese and growing increasingly unhappy and unhealthy. She found the strength within to go on to lose 130 pounds and has kept it off for over 9 years—even winning the title of Mrs. Missouri.

Her book “Awaken the Diet Within, From Overweight to Looking Great!” (Warner Books), has earned rave reviews and best-seller status on Amazon.com, reaching #2 on the Health rankings…just behind the renown Dr. Atkins’. Julia proves that healthy eating and motivation can change a person’s life—not through deprivation but through the realization of belief in one’s own abilities to succeed.

USA Today chose Julia’s book as one of it’s top diet books of the year, “a pound for pound must read book with heft”. Julia has appeared on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show, The Wayne Brady Show for “Weight Loss and Diet Guru Week” and on the QVC shopping channel. Discovery Health filmed an entire episode of “I Lost It!” around Julia. She has been in the pages Woman’s Own, The National Enquirer, Successful Slimming, Woman’s World, First For Women, Glamour and The Globe. Julia’s infomercial is the only weight loss product to carry the Time Life name.

In 2006 St. Martin’s Press will release Julia’s new book which has already gotten the endorsement of Dr. David L. Katz, M.D.—Oprah’s nutrition guru, author of “The Way to Eat” and Yale University School of Medicine professor: “If you could design the ideal weight loss advice, your priorities would likely include reliability, practicality, simplicity. You would want advice that makes intuitive sense, fits into your life, accommodates your family. And if you could select your advisor, you would doubtless emphasize compassion, insight, intelligence, and experience. In other words, if you could design the ideal packaging of weight loss guidance, you would wind up with something remarkably like ‘The Vice Busting Diet.’ And if you could screen and select among candidates for the ideal weight loss advisor, you would almost certainly choose someone just like Julia Havey. You are fortunate; no need to design advice, or screen advisors. There is no one more like Julia Havey than Julia herself- so the choice of advisor is clear.”