How do you know if you are Morbidly Obese?

We used three criteria:

* You are more than 100 pounds of her "ideal weight? The weight of the calculations, as you can live longer, but it can - usually less.
* Another alternative criterion called the Body Mass Index (BMI). If you have more than 40 years in operation, should be kept. If you are over 35 years, and is accompanied by a serious co-morbidity, surgery may be necessary. You can for Body Mass Index BMI calculator search, see the bottom of the page.
* Co-morbidity obese strong? Find a known health effects caused or exacerbated severe obesity. (See the health effects of severe obesity).
* Have you tried the diet, particularly diet under medical supervision, and was able to achieve a sustainable healthy weight? Everyone knows that diets do not work is morbidly obese, and it has not already done so, studies do what they show reported, but you must have at least tried.

How can you improve your health?

* You can switch to another plan. Unfortunately, although diets work for some time to take the effects rare, and the answer to the obesity morbid life really need. Diet program, programs to eliminate or strong enough to produce appropriate long-term weight gain in the long term obesity. That's never been scientifically proven that power management is useful or effective, long-term, severe obesity was.
* You can see how their health is threatened, and now consider the risks in order to get a lasting solution: surgery to change body physiology and help to manage weight.

We think that surgery is the only effective way to achieve permanent weight loss and healthy weight.

Decide what treatment can mean losses of less than 50% overweight (loss expected 80%) and improve the health and chances of a normal size living. .