Would you recommend gastric bypass to someone who is severely overweight?

Would you recommend gastric bypass to someone who is severely overweight?

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There are so many variables in answering this question. If someone is obviously in a bed, and can't get up, obviously there is a time where that is a prime example when medical intervention is needed whether it is a medically supervised diet, or the gastric bypass. But I wouldn't recommend it for a person who is forty pounds overweight, and just can't lose those extra love handles, because you don't want to make a decision like this for the rest of your life because you have forty pounds to lose. You need a tool that will change your life and will add restriction to your life, and you will have to live with it every day; its not an easy fix. Because, like I said, everyday of your life it is with you. I would not recommend it to someone who is not severely overweight because there is absolutely no reason to put yourself through this much trauma, through this much risk, through this much pain, all to lose a small amount of weight. You have to be extremely overweight.