![]() ![]() They had a lower body mass index - the ratio of height to weight - than expected after a year’s growth and they doubled their activity. The obese children’s changes particularly buoyed Morton. Their activity more than doubled and drinking dropped dramatically, from an average of 11 alcoholic drinks a month to one. The family members’ waists also shrank by a small but notable amount, eliminating some of the abdominal fat linked to several diseases. “If you’re able to arrest that growth and somehow make a decline, that’s a big achievement.” Obese adults typically keep gaining weight, Morton added. That’s also about the same average 12-month weight loss found in medically supervised diets such as Atkins, Ornish and Zone, the study noted. While they were still heavy, even that weight loss reduces disease risk, Morton said. One year after the patients’ surgeries, their obese adult family members had lost an average 8 pounds, or 3 percent of their weight. More than half the family members of the 35 patients in the study were obese, as were a stunning 75 percent their children. “We know it’s a family disease,” Morton said. The families learned the drastic lifestyle changes that make the surgery a long-term success, including small nutritious meals, more physical activity, TV viewing limited to two hours a day, only moderate alcohol consumption and proper amounts of sleep. Bariatric surgery is the most enduringly successful treatment for obesity, with patients on average keeping off 25 percent of their weight 10 years after the surgery, according to a 2007 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. ![]()
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