
Images for illustrative purposes
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Gastric bypass surgery helps very obese people to lose weight in large measures, significantly improve their health by returning quality of life. It is a technique in which the stomach is reduced (15 to 30 ml) and food is made to go directly from this reduced stomach to the end of the intestine. In this way the food skips a large segment of the small intestine and thereby decreases the caloric and nutrient absorption, in addition, due to the small size, the amount of food that you can eat is reduced and makes you feel full quickly; the appetite is reduced as well and thus begin to lose weight.