Not to be a naysayer but can someone tell me where I can find negative side of WLS?

I don't want to be negative because I am interested in having one of these procedures and I truely understand where everyone is coming from when they talk about how weight has caused health, emtional and social problems. However I am now concerned after reading some sites this one specifically http://gastricbypass.netfirms.com/ about long term affects of this surgery. I notice this site has mostly positive things to say [that's not a criticism because it's what has motivated me to check into it. But I wonder do any of you know of the Negative WLS sites and what are your thoughts about the lack of long term studies and the apparent evasivness that some of these surgeons display when asked pointed questions about long term. Also I notice a lot of people are put on liquid diets after surgery - Would the same amount of weight be lost if you were on a monitored liquid diet [let's say under medical supervision - in a hostipal - if there is such a place that does that] without the surgery. Meaning is it the smaller stomach or the liquid diet / pureed foods etc that is cauing weight loss in the beginning ... the rapid 2 week 40 lb loss I hear a lot of people talking about.

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