Star Jones Admits to Gastric Bypass Surgery
Star Jones, the quintessential outspoken “big woman” on television who started out as a major network legal correspondent (she’s an attorney by trade) and worked her way to become one of the most outspoken members of the women’s show “The View”, has just now admitted after years of public speculation, that she has undergone gastric bypass surgery.
The surgery is how she dramaticlaly downsized into what looks like a current size 4 or 6 from being over 300 pounds.Gastric bypas is a very serious surgery that is only medically allowable if a patient is classified in a certain class of obesity. A doctor must recommend you for the surgery for you to even begin to go about setting it up, or you must ask the doctor for a recommendation.
Since it involves actually altering the size of your stomach, you must adhere to a specific diet and avoid excess fat. Eating too much can make you sick, and in the worst cases, has even been known to cause complications that can lead to infection, and death.
Mostly, people who have tried everything else and nothing worked for natural weight loss such as the Proactol natural but also medically proven weight loss aid, and who are at wits end about weight and naturally big appetites that is spiraling out of control are candidates for this surgery. A prudent doctor would be wise to first put his patient on a diet and try natural weight loss options before jumping the gun on this serious surgery, but as with a lot of other medical procedures, it’s just considered the easier way.
This is not to say that it truly isn’t medically necessary in some cases, but I do question the amount that I am seeing this surgery done to people, or at least that I hear about in friends and coworkers, and wonder if it’s all really medically necessary.
I also tend to question the relative safety of the surgery when I’ve heard of several incidents of infection and other complications “through the grapevine” about people who have had the gastric bypass surgery done. If you think about it, you are dramatically altering your whole digestive system, and also introducing foreign matter into the body at the same time. This type of surgery constitutes some pretty serious trauma, and it does take the body time to heal and become well again afterwards.
I believe that most gastric bypass surgeries involve the “banding off” of the stomach, making it smaller, so the patient cannot eat a lot at one sitting. Because the food intake is drastically reduced through force, the patient tends to lose weight extremely fast. Another problem is because the weight loss occurs so fast, there is sometimes excess skin that hangs that can only be removed surgically.
