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Running Head : DIET AND EXERCISE VERSUS SURGERY IN OBESE PATIENTS

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DIET AND EXERCISE VERSUS SURGERY IN OBESE PATIENTS

According to the center of disease control and prevention obesity and overweight ranges are determined by calculating body mass index ' by using height and weight . An adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29 .9 is considered overweight . While those with BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese . Morbid obesity is defined as someone with a BMI of 40

or higher . In 2009 nearly 27 percent of people in the United States were obese according to the centers for disease controls and prevention (Kuczmarski , 2010

Obesity is a life style disease which is caused increased food intake non healthy foods , physical inactivity , lack of enough sleep , use of drugs to gain weight and some diseases cause obesity like hypothyroidism , depression and some diseases which the feeding centre in the brain . Obesity can prevent by eating food and exercises

Obesity is a public health issue because it increases the risk of getting disease like diabetes type 2 , hypertension , dermatology disease reproductive or endocrinology diseases , neurology disease , urology diseases psychiatry diseases , gastrointestinal diseases respiratory diseases which are worse during sleep , joint disease and some types of cancer . The impact it creates to an individual and a nation is great The impact on individual is lowering ones productivity , life expectancy myriads of health problems and complications with while to the...