For those who are severely overweight and aren’t seeing improvements from exercise and diet alone, weight loss surgery is now the most secure and most effective method to achieve significant weight reduction. Research has demonstrated that when you rely on only exercise and diet alone almost 95 percent of overweight patients will gain the weight they lost in the next five years. In contrast long-term rates of success for weight-loss surgeries – such as the LAP-BAND procedure extremely high and allow patients to maintain the loss of 50 to 70 percent of their body weight. While there are many aspects that affect a patient’s weight loss success, weight-loss surgery is…