FORMS:
More than a professional society. It’s a movement.
The foundation envisions excellence in training, research and patient care in bariatric and metabolic surgery. We strive to achieve this through education, innovation and leadership. The mission has just started and needs to be continued and promoted.
ISSUES WE CARE ABOUT
Understanding Obesity
Morbid obesity has reached epidemic proportions. Severely obese people have a great difficulty in losing weight. Multiple attempts at losing weight through dietary restriction, exercise and medicines only lead to frustration.
In cases of severe obesity, diet, exercise and medicines provide only short-term weight loss and fail to achieve any meaningful weight loss over a long period of time. Most persons regain weight and become more obese in short time. Bariatric Surgery is the standard treatment of morbid or severe obesity.
Childhood obesity A child is defined as “affected by obesity” if their body mass index-for-age (or BMI-for-age) percentile is greater than 95 percent. A child is defined as “overweight” if their BMI-for-age percentile is greater than 85 percent and less than 95 percent. Causes of childhood obesity Although the causes of childhood obesity are widespread, …
Obesity is a chronic disease in which excess body fat has accumulated to an extent that it may have a negative effect on health. People are generally considered obese when their body mass index (BMI), a measurement obtained by dividing a person’s weight by the square of the person’s height, is over 30 kg / …
