I’m pleased to announce the creation of a new section of the Bariatric Learning Center. Bariatric City will be a guide to weight loss surgery in cities across the United States. For example, here’s the city page we just completed for Dallas bariatric surgery information.

The purpose of this new site is two-fold:

First, we want to offer information about bariatric surgery that is specific to people who live in a particular city and state. In other words, these city pages are designed to be “the place to go” for weight loss surgery information in a particular city.

Secondly, we plan to use Bariatric City as sort of an online “matchmaker” between people considering bariatric surgery and the surgeons in the same city who specialize in bariatrics. In fact, we invite bariatric surgeons to sponsor their city’s page as a way of connecting with people in their community.

If you have any questions about Bariatric City, please feel free to contact us.

What are bariatric vitamins and do you need to take them after bariatric surgery?

To answer the first question, bariatric vitamins are those vitamins that many doctors and nutritionists recommend for post-surgery patients who have undergone a weight loss surgical procedure.

To answer the second question, depending on the type of surgery you have had, you may need to supplement your diet with certain vitamins that your body cannot absorb as readily (as it did before surgery). Certain types of bariatric surgery can lead to malabsorption problems, which partly means that you may not be getting the vitamins and minerals you need from your diet.

Learn more: We have recently posted a new article that discusses bariatric vitamins in more detail.

Can you imagine the concept of free weight loss surgery for the people who need it the most, the morbidly obese? If you are reading this from somewhere in the United States, this is probably a foreign concept that you cannot grasp.

And that’s exactly my point … it is a foreign concept. Many other countries who put people over profit have begun to offer free weight loss surgeries to people in desperate need of such surgery. People who would probably die without such drastic measures.

You see, in many countries outside of the U.S., there is a concept known as the “common good.” The concept is a simple one, and it is based entirely on the principles of humanity. It simply states that “we, as a country, must take care of our fellow citizens.” That’s why in Canada, Australia, Great Britain, and many European countries you have things like universal health care coverage.

And in many cases, you also have free weight loss surgery for those in desperate need. Australia was in the news recently for proposing this very thing.

Will this kind of thing ever become the norm in the U.S.? Don’t hold your breath. You see, we are much more profit-minded a nation than those I’ve mentioned previously. And nowhere is the hunger for massive profits more evident than within our nation’s health care and pharmaceutical complex. Health care is big business in the United States — huge business. And many doctors are becoming extremely wealthy as a result of the booming popularity of weight loss surgery in recent years.

So you can probably expect to find free surgery for weight loss in the U.S. about the same time pigs begin to take to the skies in graceful flight. In other words, you still have the same two options for weight loss surgery in this country — start saving your cash, or find an alternative to the surgery.