Many obese people think that by having surgery on their stomachs to correct its size they will automatically lose weight and their problem will be solved for good. That is far from the case as stomach surgery for the super obese is very dangerous and requires will power and dedication after the surgery to keep healthy and to shed weight. Many obese people have very large stomachs that need a lot of food to fill them. The stomach surgery involves the surgeon cutting out a large section of the stomach so that the person is not able to fill up his or her stomach with food like before and thus can only eat smaller amounts.

Recently a UK surgeon warned of the risks involved and highlighted the fact with information on an obese patient of his who had died following stomach surgery. The surgery itself was not the problem he said as the procedure had gone well but the woman passed away a few months after the operation from the effects of her continued obesity, malnutrition from not eating the corrects foods after the surgery and also from cardiac arrest which is much more prevalent in obese people.

Doctors always warn patients that the surgery is a last chance attempt to survive from obesity and it is only done if there is serious danger to health and a possibility of death if nothing is done. After the surgery people have to consume a special diet that does not allow them to eat more than 1000 calories a day and this diet can put the body under strain and stress. Some patients even lose their hair following the operation as their body tries to adjust to the sudden change. The statistics are clear in that there is a 1% chance of the patient dying during or following the surgery and so the odds have to be weighed up carefully.