Posted on: 5:08 pm, November 2, 2012, by Stephanie Moore, updated on: 10:42pm, November 2, 2012
A new take on an old weight-loss surgery is making news as an effective way to lose weight and keep it off.
The surgery not only reduces the patients stomach size, but reduces the hormone responsible for causing hunger.
Gina Henderson says shes always struggled with her weight. Her doctors told her, her health would continue to decline if she didnt do something.
My life would be shortened, my quality of life would diminish my risk of complications would gradually increase with my age, and that scared me, says Henderson six months ago.
Henderson turned to Iowa health and had a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy surgery.
The procedure removes three-fourths of your stomach, taking it from the size of a football to the width of an index finger and the length of a banana.
Dr. Teresa LaMasters performed the surgery and says it not only provides a permanent solution to portion control but reduces the hormone found in the stomach that causes hunger.
Our goal is not to make people skinny, our goal is to make people healthy, we want to improve our health, and help them live longer, and then improve their quality of life too, says Dr. LaMasters.
And thats exactly whats happened to Henderson, six months after the surgery, shes lost nearly 100 pounds.
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