SMGH: Anonymous Webinar for Coping After Covid By JLNJ Staff | May 20, 2021
(Courtesy of SMGH) “This past Shabbat, the conversation at kiddush in shul was our usual topic our mental health issues,” said George Matyjewicz, PhD, community liaison at St. Mary’s General Hospital. “Moshe told how he broke up the kitchen in his house when his wife snapped at him; Gershon said he copes with all this stress very easily a half-gallon of rum every day; Abe said drugs are quicker; Dovid said he’s going to try drugs so that those people will stop saying those things; Yossi thought they were all nuts, as he finished off his ninth pastry.”
(Courtesy of SMGH) Bariatric surgery is surgery to modify your stomach and/or intestines to induce weight loss and change your body’s metabolism. Bariatric surgery has been around since the 1950s and is the most effective method for long-term weight loss.
Medical problems and quality of life significantly improve with weight loss. “One of the major benefits of weight-loss surgery is that after surgery many patients are able to either stop taking or decrease their daily medications,” said Dr. Cynthia Weber. Studies have shown that bariatric surgery patients will live an average of seven to eight years longer after successful weight loss.