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does he have cancer, esophageal cancer. pancreatic cancer. pancreatic cancer. these are really red flag. you want to make sure you really do all the studies, maybe get a cat scan to find out what s going on. you re right, unfortunately a lot of teenagers are using laxatives to lose weight. and that s quite dangerous. should panic, et cetera, and the medication that marked talked about, diuretics, subsequent has a high blood pressure and they lose salt and weight, you want to be careful. chron s and irritable bowel disease, i feel sorry for them, because constipation, et cetera, i feel sorry for them. don t forget, if lap bands are new coming in and the patient is
cancer. pancreatic cancer. pancreatic cancer. these are really red flag. you want to make sure you really do all the studies, maybe get a cat scan to find out what s going on. you re right, unfortunately a lot of teenagers are using laxatives to lose weight. and that s quite dangerous. so that s a question in the history of physical we do. hyperthyroid, too much thyroid it increases your metabolism, you could lose a lot of weight, you could lose hair and start panicking, et cetera. and medications mark talked about. for example, diuretics, somebody has high blood pressure, go on diuretics, lose a lot of salt and water quickly. be careful. and crohn s and constipation, diarrh diarrhea, back and forth, et cetera. but as a surgeon we see a lot of lap bands.
people are pretty desperate aren t they to do something? our whole country is desperate. it s important to understand this. there is a body mass index. a line in the sand that once you cross it you can t go back and stay back on your own. typically that s been thought to be a body mass index of 40. those are the people i operate on. those are the people that get lap bands. listen to this. just about two years ago the fda approved lap band surgery for people with a bmi of 30 or greater. and one medical problem related to their weight. think about that. so your comment earlier about half of our population in 15 years being obese and needing surgery, that s what i m looking at. operating on half of all americans. i was applauding michael bloomberg for saying, let s deal with these super-sized sodas. they re terrible for everybody. they re making people fast they re rotting their teeth. they re not good for you. clearly people can t be trusted to stop it themselves. let s do something
and it s the mindlessness that we ve sort of taken to eating that can play right into the hands of the industry. joe, i ve talked to interview chris christie several times about it. he s very honest about his weight problems. he s a brilliant politician but he has this big frame and has struggled very had over the years to do something about it. he eventually had this gastric lap band thing which appears to be having some effect for him. you have seen those and treated people with those. when it gets to that stage people are pretty desperate aren t they to do something? our whole country is desperate. it s important to understand this. there is a body mass index. a line in the sand that once you cross it you can t go back and stay back on your own. typically that s been thought to be a body mass index of 40. those are the people i operate on. those are the people that get lap bands. listen to this. just about two years ago the fda approved lap band surgery for people with a bmi of