Overweight - Obesity
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Overweight - Obesity
NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Obesity
"Obesity is also defined as a BMI (body mass index) over 30 kg/m2. Patients with a BMI between 25 and 29.9 are considered overweight, but not obese. … Obesity increases a person's risk of illness and death due to diabetes, stroke, coronary artery disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, and kidney and gallbladder disorders. Obesity may increase the risk for some types of cancer. It is also a risk factor for the development of osteoarthritis and sleep apnea. Genetic factors play some part in the development of obesity -- children of obese parents are 10 times more likely to be obese than children with parents of normal weight."
Highlighted Article[Lifestyle intervention in the treatment of severe obesity.] (Ugeskr Laeger. 2006)
"CONCLUSION: After 15 weeks of intensive lifestyle intervention, there were significant improvements in aerobic fitness and metabolic risk parameters, and the observed weight loss was equivalent to that obtained by surgical treatment. Decisive in the choice of obesity treatment will continue to be the extent of success in permanent weight loss."
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Overweight - Obesity
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Long-Term Health Problems Linked To Bariatric Surgery “One of the most well-known procedures of this type is gastric bypass surgery, which makes the stomach smaller and allows food to bypass part of the small intestine. The operation tricks the patient into feeling full with less food than when their stomach was its original size. While gastric bypass surgery can cause rapid and dramatic weight loss, there are drawbacks. After bypassing the small intestine, food moves directly to the lower intestine which does not absorb nutrients as well as the upper part of the digestive tract. The patient eats less and derives less nutrition from the food that is consumed. Less fat is absorbed by the body, but along with that benefit, fewer essential nutrients and vitamins are absorbed. "Typically what happens is people get really excited about the weight loss, and feel healthier to the point where they feel that they don't need to go in for their routine checkups," said Nana Gletsu Miller, Ph.D, an assistant professor at the School of Public Health at Emory University. "Less than 20 percent get routinely checked after surgery, and this is what leads to complications." “
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