Improving your health through weight loss
Being overweight means more than not looking your best in a bathing suit. It can negatively impact every facet of life, affecting your ability to get around and do the things you enjoy most in life, and it can have a serious impact on your health.
Obesity is associated with more than 30 medical conditions, including America’s No. 1 killer, heart disease. As weight rises, so do health risks, including:
- Fatigue or low energy
- Shortness of breath during exertion
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol and triglycerides
- Type 2 diabetes
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- Infertility
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Hypoventilation syndrome
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- Hernia
- Joint pain and arthritis
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Gallbladder disease
- Fatty liver disease
- Skin fold rashes
- Depression
- Shortened life expectancy
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According to The Obesity Society, obese individuals may have a 50 to 100 percent increased risk of death from all causes, compared with normal-weight individuals.
But there’s hope. The weight-loss options available at Holston Valley Medical Center’s Comprehensive Weight Management Center can also affect every facet of a person’s life – positively.
Utilizing state-of-the-art medical procedures such as laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and endoscopic non-incisional therapies, we can help you get back to what’s important – living life on your own terms.
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