morbid obesity
morbid obesity
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by Donald Saunders - 2007-06-14
It is no secret that obesity in rising rapidly in many western countries and that the United States is leading the field but what is perhaps not so well known is that the number of those people cl...
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by Donald Saunders - 2007-06-16
It is no secret that obesity in rising rapidly in many western countries and that the United States is leading the field but what is perhaps not so well known is that the number of those people ...
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by Scott Meyers - 2007-07-03
We are suffering an obesity epidemic in the United States. About 66 million people are classified as 'obese,' which means that they have a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 30%. That means that a per...
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by Caroline J. Cederquist, M.D. - 2007-07-04
With two out of three Americans overweight today, we're learning more and more about the numerous ways that carrying excess weight can really affect our health and diminish our quality of life. But yo...
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by Tony Pescatore - 2007-07-27
Although, time is of the essence for those who are morbidly obese, there are however, a few options when considering weight loss. For many individuals their past is riddled with going from one t...
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by Donald Saunders - 2008-05-06
The number of people choosing to have gastric bypass surgery has increased significantly in the past few years and continues to climb as obesity sweeps across the western world. And there is very ...
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by Erin Carraway - 2008-08-10
As a morbidly obese woman, I spent over 30 years trying to "hide" my obesity from my friends, family, and of course, myself. After all, I was athletic, I was strong, I was a P.E. teacher for goodness ...
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by Dave Stringham - 2008-09-23
With its symptoms building slowly over an extended period of time, obesity is a chronic disease that is effecting millions of American. Obesity becomes "morbid obesity" when it begins to significantl...