Re: randy jackson

[Guest guest]

I had Entertainment Tonight on last evening and right before a commercial they

said that American Idol judge Randy will return to the show following

his weight loss surgery.

I'm just curious if anyone knows which procedure he had????

I think he had a fobi pouch...

Marjie

[Guest guest]

> I had Entertainment Tonight on last evening and right before a

commercial they said that American Idol judge Randy will

return to the show following his weight loss surgery.

I'm just curious if anyone knows which procedure he had????<<<

Sue, here is one article I found:

" American Idol " judge Randy is recovering from gastric bypass

surgery undertaken to lose weight, Inside Edition reports

exclusively, Thursday, July 17. Sources told Inside Edition, 46-year-

old underwent the surgery a week ago at Southern California's

Center for the Surgical Treatment of Obesity. He had a form of

gastric by-pass called the Fobi Pouch.

" The patients who undergo this kind of procedure are usually morbidly

obese, " surgeon Basil Felahy told Inside Edition.

Inside Edition went into the operating room at the Center with

Felahy, who performed the same procedure on another patient and

explained how this type of surgery works: " By giving him a small

pouch which is going to be his stomach from now on, his main stomach

and bowel attached to it is bypassed. "

Patients are left with a tiny stomach so they feel full after just a

small amount of food.

" You feel full when your stomach is stretched, the wall is stretched,

and that's what they get, because the pouch is small, " Dr. Felahy

told Inside Edition.

Most patients live on a diet of pureed food for several weeks after

the surgery. In March, told " People " magazine he was

concerned about his weight. He said he lost 20 pounds by eating

smaller portions and working out three times a week.

's weight has been raised from time to time on " American

Idol. " He once even confronted a contestant over his weight, telling

him: " You take that home and work on it and you come back and show me

that you've lost probably 100 pounds and get your look together. "

Every week, 1,200 overweight Americans have their stomachs stapled.

Gastric by-pass surgery has become so popular among dieters that some

people are actually trying to gain weight to qualify, Inside Edition

reports.

Singer Carnie , weatherman Al Roker and Sharon Osbourne have

all had gastric bypass surgery as well.

Original Air Date: July 17, 2003

http://www.insideedition.com/jacksonSurgery.htm

Sheri

In Sunny Florida