Seeking Help For Obesity

There are over 180 million Americans who are overweight and almost 90 million of them are severely overweight, or obese. That means 30% of adults in the United States are so overweight that they are at an increased risk for at least 30 medical conditions, some deadly, including heart disease, cancer of the breast, colon, uterus and esophagus, hypertension, glaucoma, gallbladder disease, sleep apnea, and osteoarthritis. And there's a significant chance that any random American citizen reading this article also wishes they could shed a few pounds. Obesity has recently been dubbed a serious, chronic medical condition by the medical and scientific community. Only in the past few decades have experts taken notice of the problem, but that's not

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