By Emily Killinghall
24 October 2010
Lap Band Surgery in Austin Saves Lives
Lap Band Surgery in Austin Saves Lives, Honored with NSIDE MD Magazine’s Cover Story
This month’s October issue of NSIDE Magazine Austin honored Texas Bariatric Specialists on their cover for their commitment to fighting obesity in South Texas with minimally invasive surgical weight loss procedures, such as Lap Band Surgery. In the magazine Dr.’s Patel, Bell, and Jaso discuss their views on treating obesity and how it has affected the obese in Austin. When asked about obesity in south Texas Patel responded “The number of people overweight is not frustrating, but motivation to push forward”, adding that the statistics would be depressing, “if I thought we could not make a difference. And by God, are we going to make a difference.”
Usually when you think of a serious illness you don’t picture it being something we see everyday. The same was once thought of during the golden age of smoking, until advocacy and research uncovered the harmful effects of smoking. Today the elephant in the room is obesity AKA the number one cause of preventable mortality in the US.
“The Austin office has grown tremendously in the past few years,” he said today. “Its important that our state capital know the work we are doing to make a difference in the fight against obesity with Gastric Bypass Surgery, Gastric Sleeve Surgery and Lap Band Surgery in Austin.”
“Being on NSIDE Magazine’s cover is really an honor that I can appreciate and then move on because there are many things we still have to do.”
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