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- Obesity
is defined in several different ways but we think that the best way
to define it is saying that obesity is the excess acumulation of fat
in the body
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Obesity is of epidemic proportions in USA today among children
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It is a chronic disease that causes more deaths than cigarrets
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There are more than 45 million overweight and 20 million obese people
in the USA
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Each year more than 300,000 individuals die from cardiovascular-obesity
related causes in the US. This number is second only to smoking.
- 98.5
% of obese patients fail to return to normal lives and normal weight
when using only diets and medication
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Weight reduction and correction of medical problems associated with
morbid obesity after bariatric surgery decreases death rates and improves
dramatically quality of life in the morbidly obese individual.
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