Why Lose Weight?

Obesity can have a dramatic impact on your body. The conditions related to obesity can be detrimental to your health. However, many of these complications can be avoided or cured through weight loss.

Obesity and Its Effects on Your Body and Health

Dangers associated with being overweight or obese are related to many avoidable conditions and illnesses that link to:

Early Death
Chronic Illness
Avoidable Diseases
Risk of Cancer

According to Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were over 1000 deaths each year directly related to obesity. The possibility of the premature death increases greatly with increased weight.

Below are some benefits of losing weight.

Reduced Risk of Heart Attack

Obesity is a major risk factor for Circulatory defects, Cardiovascular disease, Heart Failure and Stroke.

Large studies show that the risk of heart disease increases with obesity, and people with severe obesity are at a higher risk for coronary artery disease.

This means they have a higher risk of heart failure or a heart attack.

Severe obesity is associated with irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias). These arrhythmias can triple the risk of cardiac arrest. However, some excess weight can protect against death from heart failure after the diagnosis is made.

End Diabetes and Related Diseases

People affected by obesity or severe obesity are 10 times more likely to have Type 2 Diabetes, which nearly doubles the risk of death.

The effective treatment Type II Diabetes by Metabolic Surgery results in 66% of sufferers become normal-glycaemic with normal fasting blood glucose, serum insulin, Hba1c levels and nearly all of them will require less medications for their diabetes.

Control Serious Comorbidities

By controlling obesity and diabetes improved health outcomes can include:

Hypertension – 59% off all medications
High cholesterol - Abnormal Lipidemia normalised
Sleep apnea – 74% no longer needed CPAP
Asthma – 1/3 no further symptoms
Reflux - Reflux oesophagitis – 89% controlled symptoms
Arthritis or Osteoarthritis
Infertility, Irregular Bleeding & Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome – 90% resolved
Fatty Liver disease - Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis >50% complete resolution

Other Health Improvements

Conditions that commonly improve include;

Nerve defects are reduced
Infections become quicker to heal with reduced risk of amputations
Impotence can be reduced
Blindness and Eye Disease risks can be reduced
Kidney disease drops

Psychological Impact of Weight Loss

Successful weight loss patients are able to engage in activities that they were not able to do before, such as travelling or riding a roller coaster.

They feel better about themselves and are happier in general, thanks to the more fulfilling life that they lead after losing weight.

So the psychological impact of effective weight loss is important and can include:

Depression – Major reductions with 75% normal
Improved Body Image and elevated self-esteem - Quality of Life – Sf-36 health questionnaire normalises
Better employment opportunity
Increased social opportunity with less social isolation

Obesity and Cancer

Obesity is believed to cause up to 90,000 cancer deaths per year. As body mass index (BMI) increases, so do the risk of cancer and death from cancer. The common cancers linked to obesity including Liver, Kidney, Thyroid, Prostate, Endometrial, Cervical, Ovarian, Postmenopausal Breast, Colorectal, Esophageal, Pancreatic, Gallbladder cancers, and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Multiple myeloma, and Leukemia.