The American Society Of Bariatric Plastic Surgeons Website Expands

ASBPS.org continues to expand with more information about procedures available and photographs of patients before and after undergoing face and body contouring operations. Obesity has achieved epidemic proportions in the United States. "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the prevalence of obesity in America has increased from 40% to 70% in the past 20 years.Bariatric gastric bypass surgery is becoming an acceptable and effective means of weight loss and of alleviating its associated medical issues like diabetes, blood pressure and cardiac problems. According to the American Society of Bariatric & Metabolic Surgery, 220,000 people with morbid obesity in the U.S. had bariatric surgery in 2009 which has increased

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