Locate a Weight Loss Surgeon
Decatur, Alabama
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Location and Contact Details
LivLite
Decatur General Hospital
1201 Seventh Street, SE
Decatur, Alabama 35601
Phone: 256-565-2946
Toll Free: 1 (877) LIV-LITE
Fax: 1 (818) 346-1749
Bariatric Surgeons
Several Obesity Surgeons operating on site.
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Types of Obesity Surgery Performed
Stomach Bypass Surgery
LivLite adopts the most advanced and effective surgical technique as the
basis of its program, Gastric Bypass Surgery. The procedure reduces the
size of the stomach and shortens the intestine. The procedure reduces
food intake and the amount of food absorbed. Not a cosmetic surgical procedure,
bariatric surgery is a clinical response to a health-threatening clinical
condition morbid obesity and its results are dramatic: patients
typically lose 75% of excess weight within six to twelve months. The National
Institutes of Health has endorsed Gastric Bypass Surgery as the only proven
procedure for weight loss in severely obese patients. As a consequence,
family physicians have encouraged their most severely overweight patients
to undergo the procedure, with 40,000 Bariatric surgeries performed in
the United Sates in 2001, 63,000 in 2002 and another 100,000 projected
in 2003.
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