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OBESITY (Medications: (Lorcaserin (Bleviq) Selective Serotonergic 5…

- - - - Setting weight-loss goals
      - Improving diet habits: limit processed foods, decrease high caloric beverages, smaller portions, schedule/plan means in advance, eat breakfast.
      - Increasing physical activity: Daily for 30 min, swimming, walking, cycling
      - Addressing barriers to change
      - Self-monitoring and strategizing ongoing lifestyle changes aimed at a healthy weight.
  - - - Three Categories: Restrictive: stomach is reduced in size (less food is eaten) Malabsorptive: The length of the small intestine is decreased (less food absorbed) Combination of restrictive & mal absorptive: combination of both size reduction and length of intestine is reduced
        
        Sleeve Gastrectomy
        
        Gastric Banding
      - Selection factors: body weight, patient history, failure to lose weight using other means, absence of endocrine disorders, and psychological stability
        
        Surgery is preformed only after nonsurgical methods have failed
        
        Morbid obesity: persons more than two times IBW, BMI exceeds 30 kg/m2, or more than 100 pounds greater than IBW; high risk for health complications