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Obesity treatments
The easiest way to treat being overweight is to reduce the intake of high-energy food by means of an adapted diet and to promote simultaneously more intense physical activity that consumes more energy from the food.
The combination of a diet with a general better lifestyle can reduce moderate overweight.
On the other hand, diets are particularly disappointing for many patients as they demand great effort and the effects stop as soon as they are interrupted.
Most of the patients concerned described it as the YO-YO effect.
Moreover, with people who suffer from severe or morbid obesity, the increase of physical activity is made impossible by the physical impediment of their weight and they end up in a vicious circle, the sedentary lifestyle brings along boredom that is pushing them even further into attaching more importance to food. | It is here that more definitive solutions can help the patients, and in particular surgery. With subjects suffering from morbid obesity the deterioration of their life expectancy justifies resorting to surgery as a therapeutic means after a thorough study of their medical file.
Obesity surgery is called bariatric surgery.
In order to benefit from a bariatric operation, you have to be morbidly obese and have either a BMI higher than 40, or higher than 35 with 2 comorbidities . |
| Patient with a BMI of 41 prepared for a bypass |
| • BMI > 40
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• 35 < BMI < 40
+ 2 comorbidities | Criteria to be met for an operation |
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