{"id":2643,"date":"2011-07-04T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T13:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2011-07-04T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T13:13:01","slug":"dangers-of-gastric-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/articles\/dangers-of-gastric-bands.htm","title":{"rendered":"Dangers Of Gastric Bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Are Gastric Bands Safe<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2644\" title=\"GastricBand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GastricBand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GastricBand.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GastricBand-150x140.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/>One the most deliberated weight loss methods available today is the Gastric Band.<\/p>\n<p>It seems this piece of rather <em>barbaric <\/em>looking equipement is very much in demand even with the latest wave of horror stories emerging from the press.<\/p>\n<p>Both Vanessa Feltz and Ferne Britton have admitted to having the surgery with varying degrees of success.<\/p>\n<p>Recently a young British woman nearly died after her gastric band turned septic.<\/p>\n<p>Obese patients are usually well aware of the risks before surgery but often the benefits of the stomach shrinking surgery out weigh the risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-2011047\/Gastric-band-agony-25-year-old-womans-stomach-explodes-lost-14-stone.html\">Read The full story in the Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Are Gastric Bands Safe One the most deliberated weight loss methods available today is the Gastric Band. It seems this piece of rather barbaric looking equipement is very much in demand even with the latest <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/articles\/dangers-of-gastric-bands.htm\" title=\"Dangers Of Gastric Bands\">[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[785,786,784],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GastricBand.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5SuqL-GD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowfatliving.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}