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According to my research, this is defined as someone who is 100 lbs. (or about 45 kg) in excess of the recommended weight for that individual’s body size. Let me first start by saying I am not a doctor. In my work as a freelance writer, I recently was handed a lot of assignments relating to the medical profession and observed some interesting insight into this field. An individual who is seriously overweight needs to find a way to reduce that weight to more manageable numbers to relieve the strain that this puts on the internal system and chances are they will quite possibly live longer.

One topic I was given was “lap band”. Since the other part of the assignment is to associate this with a U.S. city selected from a predetermined list, I chose New Orleans and came up with a title that said, “Lap Band is not a new Dixieland Jazz Band from Norway”. LAP- BAND® is a product now marketed by Allergan, Inc . and was originally a product of the Inamed Corporation. Allergan claims they acquired Inamed and other sources say it was a merger. No doubt, the lawsuits around silicon breast implants had something to do with Inamed’s demise.

The band is a very interesting concept and is considered minimally invasive surgery. A gastric bypass is much riskier surgery, if you believe the figures of a death rate on the operating table of 250:1 for the bypass and 2,500:1 for the band implant surgery.

Essentially, the band works like a tie-wrap that is wrapped around the oesophagus just above the stomach. Attached to the band is a tube that is connected on the other end to a “pad” that is sutured just below the skin to allow the doctor to inject a saline solution into the tube. The solution will expand the band and, therefore, restrict the flow of food into the stomach. The whole apparatus doesn’t involve a lot of stapling or removal of any part of someone’s anatomy. It can be removed if it is no longer a viable option as it was for one entertainment individual who will remain nameless.

The concept is simply this. The brain and the stomach don’t communicate very well. We tend to eat until we are full. So slowing down the intake of food into the stomach will add time to the process and may allow for less food intake. It can work, but it is also up to the patient to work with it. Otherwise, they just eat longer and don’t lose weight.

Anyone considering this surgery, should obviously discuss this with a medical professional to see if it is right for you. Fashion models might consider themselves candidates for the surgery to control weight but the surgical scar would probably deter them  from considering it because bikini modelling would likely be removed from their list.

I also discovered that the field of radiology is growing in leaps and bounds and that job opportunities are expected to grow by 15% in the United States in the next 5 years or so. There are not many careers out there in this economic environment that can talk about that kind of growth.

I am also not a financial expert, as are most writers. We don’t write for the money because it isn’t that good but save for a very few. But I would have to think that the medical health field will perform better than a lot of segments in the world market because the world population is getting older and everyone is a potential customer for some form of medical treatment.

So if you are in the category of the seriously overweight, looking for a career that will be quite stable and also looking for a place to invest your money, you might want to spend some time investigating medical websites. It is most surprising what you will learn.