Gastric Bypass in Milan Italy
This surgery also called Bariatric Surgery , "baros" meaning weight from Greek. The idea behind this procedure is to create a smaller stomach so most of the food will bypass the stomach and only a small proportion will eventually end up entering your body. Smaller stomach volume will cause you to eat less because you'll feel full earlier and fewer calories will be absorbed. The surgery also creates a bypass to some part of the small intestine, which also contributes to less absorption. This results in weight loss. This surgery usually performed on people who have body mass index above 40 or those who have serious comorbidities resulting from their weight. Sometimes the doctors also recommend this surgery for people who haven't succeeded in losing weight with alternative methods. Some other conditions, which are considered, are: not having alcohol abuse or psychiatric disorder such as depression and you should also be between the ages of 18-65. In general most of the clinics require candidates with long term commitment to change life habits like training and diet.
This operation can be performed using several techniques, the most common one called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. In a normal digestion process the food passes from the stomach to the small intestine and then to the large intestine. In the small intestine most of the nutrients are absorbed. To create a bypass the surgeon will create a small pocket in the upper portion of the stomach using a special plastic ring or staples. Then he'll connect the "new" stomach to the middle portion of the small intestine called jejunum, that way the food will bypass the rest of the stomach and upper portion of the small intestine called duodenum.
The surgery can be performed by making a large cut on the abdomen (laparotomy) or by making few small cuts with minimally invasive technique (laparoscopy).
Common risks for this procedure include infection, peritonitis, pulmonary embolism, gallstones and nutrients deficiency such as B12, iron and calcium.
After the surgery you'll have to stay in hospital for 4-6 days after laparotomy and 2-3 days after laparoscopy. Most of the people are able to return to their daily activities after 3-5 weeks.
You'll need to drastically change your eating habits, you should eat small amount of food more often. This will help to minimize "dumping syndrome" which is due to food moves too quickly from the stomach to the intestine and may cause sweating, weakness and dizziness.
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Milan Buy
Milan is a fashion shoppers' paradise.
The main shopping area is the fashion quadrangle (quadrilatero della moda), roughly between Duomo Square (piazza Duomo), Cavour Square (Piazza Cavour) and San Babila Square (Piazza San Babila). Here, in Montenapoleone Street, Della Spiga Street, Vittorio Emanuele Street and Manzoni Street, all major labels have their main shops: Giorgio Armani, Prada, Gucci, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and so on. MM1 San Babila or MM3 Montenapoleone.
For people wanting to spend a bit less, while still buying beautiful things, other areas are better. One of these is Vercelli Avenue (MM1 Pagano), another one is Buenos Aires Avenue (MM1 Porta Venezia, MM1 Lima, MM1/MM2 Loreto).
For hipsters there's the elongated Porta Ticinese area, expecially on Saturday, when the Fiera di Senigallia takes place near Darsena (now that area is closed and Fiera di Senigallia has been moved to a place near Porta Genova MM2 and FS station).
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Milan Restaurants
At the two Osteria del Gnocco Fritto the 4.5 euro cover charge includes baskets of fried, square, hollow, hand-size pastries (similar to sopapillas) accompanied by meats, cheeses, or jams (8 to 11 euro). At Via Pestalozzi, 16 (tel. 02 8912.2631) and off the Grand Canal at Via Pasquale Paoli, 2 (tel. 02 5810.0216).
The Osteria dei Formaggi on the Grand Canal (Alzaia Naviglio Grande, 54) serves all manner of excellent cheese dishes in an intimate dining room heavily decorated with cows. (tel. 02 8940.9415)
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Gastric BypassLatest Forum Posts...
- My brother is thinking of undergoing gastric bypass surgery. He really needs to do something about his weight. I have heard though that there are medical conditions wherein people are just predisposed to becoming obese. If my brother is, since a lot of our family members (even aunts and my granpda) are overweight, will gastric bypass surgery solve his problem or is it just a waste of money?
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