TV presenter Vanessa Feltz, who also hosts a BBC London radio show, had undergone a gastric band operation in a desperate bid to lose weight after her weight ballooned to 16st 4lb. Miss Feltz, who lives in north London, said that she was sick of being labelled the ‘poster girl for fat people’.
A gastric band operation is one kind of weight loss surgery where the size of the stomach is reduced using an adjustable band so that one can only eat small meals. Then afterwards patient will be forced to live on around 1,000 calories a day for the rest of their life and won't be able to enjoy their food.
Now this gastric band or also considered as "magic band" by many suppose to reduce the body weight but somehow it is not working in the case of Ms Vanessa Feltz.
The experts are saying that having a gastric band fitted is not a 'magic bullet' and the patient must also totally change their eating habits. According to another organization called The British Obesity Surgery Patient Assocation “You need to get to grips with a healthy eating plan if you are going to get the best results from your surgery", according to them there's even the danger that if you over eat - you can even dislodge the band, causing serious complications".
This is a kind of joke as most people who went for the weight loss surgery in the first place because they could not keep up with healthy diet and now if according to the surgeons patient must change to healthy diet after operation then what is the point of dangerous and expensive surgery???
Because if the patent has the will power to stick to healthy diet then they can do it on their own, without ever going under knife, otherwise there is a big danger for the patient to come back to their original weight which is preciously happening in the case of Ms Vanessa Feltz.
As of now Vanessa Feltz is looking more or less similar as in the past despite having had a weight loss surgery (gastric band fitted) in June 2010 in addition after surgery she would be missing her food she enjoyed, for the rest of her life or face complication of weight loss surgery.
Instead of weight loss surgery one can consider natural and healthy option. All you need is a active lifestyle and healthy eating habits. Issued in the public interest by New Obesity Campaign UK.
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