Obesity is defined in several different ways but we think that the best way to define it is saying that obesity is the excess acumulation of fat in the body.

Obesity is of epidemic proportions in USA today among children.

It is a chronic disease that causes more deaths than cigarretes.

There are more than 45 million overweight and 20 million obese people in the USA.

Each year more than 300,000 individuals die from cardiovascular-obesity related causes in the US. This number is second only to smoking.

98.5 % of obese patients fail to return to normal lives and normal weight when using only diets and medication.

Weight reduction and correction of medical problems associated with morbid obesity after bariatric surgery decreases death rates and improves dramatically quality of life in the morbidly obese individual.