Obesity

Mild cases of overweight can be addressed in normal life by changing eating habits, becoming more active and reducing stress. Clinical obesity, however, is much more complex and involves many comorbidities. These patients’ lives have often been dominated by years of self-recrimination and unsuccessful dieting. An optimised treatment plan is devised with professional support from an interdisciplinary team of internists, psychologists, physiotherapists, surgeons and many other specialists. Bariatric surgery accompanied by dietary advice is often the most useful and successful route in the long term. This reduces the patient’s distorted sense of appetite and alleviates existing diabetes. The resulting weight loss greatly enhances their quality of life.

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