Explosion prevention service for obesity

By the end of this decade, the number of overweight children worldwide will increase significantly and have a profound impact on all areas from health to economics, according to a study published in the international journal of fat. hypertrophy in children yesterday.

Dr. Philip James, president of the International Anti-Obesity Force, said obesity is becoming a global disease and affects most countries.

Nearly half of all children in North and South America will be overweight in 2010 (compared to a third of the current population). In the European Union, about 38% of children (currently 25%) will be overweight if the current trend continues. The rate of overweight children in the Middle East and Southeast Asia will also increase sharply. Children who are overweight when they grow up are more likely to get sick and will have a shorter life span.

Vittorio Campati, weighing 140kg, had slimming surgery in Rome ( Photo: TTO )

Because of that, in many developed countries, there is an outbreak of slimming surgery. In the United States there are more than 100,000 cases performed in 2003, 10 times higher than in 1998, according to a statistic of the American Medical Association magazine (JAMA). This situation is similar in Canada.

The majority of the surgery is to cut a part of the stomach, gallbladder . The results are quite impressive: the patient reduces 30-40% of the initial weight. Cases of patients with 50% - 80% excess body weight are not uncommon. Specialized physicians claim that this weight loss is sustainable compared with weight loss patients on diets.

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