Dr. Oz encourages you to fight obesity with surgery!!!!

Dr. Oz show on Monday January 23rd at 4pm "The Gastric Surgery You Should Be Getting!"

This surgery could help you lose weight, prevent cancer, heart disease and even reverse your diabetes. Find out if this underperformed surgery is right for you.

"I am one of the millions of people that lost the nutritional challenge and fell victim to morbid obesity. How does a surgeon reach a weight of 450 pounds with a BMI of 55, suffering from sleep apnea, and chronic back pain? With all my knowledge as a physician, I was not able to succeed in sustaining weight loss on my own." - James “Butch” Rosser, Jr. MD FACS, Professor of Surgery, Morehouse School of Medicine

"For those of you facing this problem every day, you are not alone. Over 91 million people (78 million adults and 13 million children) in the US are obese. One billion adults and 28 million children under the age of 6 are stricken with this condition around the world. Five to ten percent (50-100 million) suffer from morbid obesity as I did..

...Most of the public thinks that the face of obesity is the grotesque physical appearance of the victim brought on by deposition of layers of fatty tissue. But, obesity is not a cosmetic issue; it causes medical co-morbidities that decrease the quality of life (increased incidence of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, sleep apnea, cancer, asthma) and a patient’s ability to sustain a productive existence (reflux, infertility, low back pain, osteoarthritis).

It is not just the person with the condition that suffers; the loved ones of the nutritionally challenged are victims also. Spouses, family members and friends live in a unique and often secretive world that no one seems to want to address. As a loved one, there are so many emotions they experience, but keep secret because they are afraid or ashamed to admit their feelings for fear of hurting the one they love. Whether the issue is concern for their health, intimacy, quality of life, self-esteem or any other life situation, loved ones often tread through the issues softly and quietly. They sing a song that no one hears.."

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