Obesity Surgery is not Just About Surgery
Bariatric Surgery provides safe and effective solutions
Canadians looking for a safe, effective and long-term solution to weight loss are turning to bariatric surgery in large numbers. Bariatric surgery is often recommended by physicians for patients who are morbidly obese.
Morbid obesity is an abnormal obesity defined as the condition of having body weight over 100 lbs over an ideal body weight or having a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or higher. A recent report from Statistics Canada on Adult body mass index, indicates that in 2008, 17.2% of Canadians aged 18 or older, roughly 4.2 million adults, reported height and weight that classified them as obese. The report also notes that from 2003 to 2008, obesity among men rose from 16.0% to 18.3%, and among women, from14.5% to 16.2%. This finding confirms the trend cited by physicians across the country that Canadians are getting fatter. Read the rest of this post
