Although you will have to do the free registration to read it, I found this quite interesting and in the Business section of the very well known New York Times: "One Alternative: A Ring That Squeezes the Stomach"

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/business/27band.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/business/27bariatric.html?8hpib

Thanks for the great articles, they were very interesting.

Sounds like their info is outdated. We don't expect to lose 1/2 our excess weight, we can lose it all. It may just take us longer than bypass patients! According to Dr. Ortiz, data now supports that we lose just as much after 2 years.

Anyone, who has any (or no) bariatric surgery CAN lose all of his or her excess weight. But there is NO DATA supporting the concept that any surgery will cause us to lose ALL of our excess weight. The best outlook appears to be the DS at about 75-80%, then the RnY and the AGB at about 65%.

We can all STRIVE to lose all of our excess weight, but to EXPECT to do so would leave an awful lot of people very, very disappointed.

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