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090: Will "Weight Loss" Surgery Make You Thin, Healthy and Live Longer?

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The Importance of Weight Loss Surgery

After more than 15 years of resistance and had a sleeve gastrectomy at the UCLA Ronald Reagan hospital in January 2018. Roxanne says her desire for weight loss has long been about satisfying other people more than myself finding a way to fit more peacefully into a world that is not interested in accommodating a body like mine. The dominant culture cultural attitude towards fatness is that the fat body is a medical problem, drain on society an ascetic blight as a fat person I am supposed to want to lose weight she writes.

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