To treat obesity in adolescents is better to perform a surgery that exercise and diet
Obesity is becoming a disease that brings severe consequences, are increasing every day more people suffer, especially children and adolescents.
For this disease there are several treatments, the most commonly used with diet, exercise and surgery, but according to studies of surgery would be best suited to treat this disease in adolescents.
Obese, underwent surgery in order to reduce your stomach so that they ingest less food, another group was subjected to a strict diet in addition to exercise, however teenagers best results obtained were subjected to surgery.
The type of surgery performed was gastric band and the excellent results since 50% of teenagers brought down its weight to more than half, however the others who made diet and exercise only 25% achieving their goal.
The gastric banding involves placing a band that can be adjusted in the outer part of the stomach, promotes a sense of satiety to the patient when you eat small portions.
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here in Philippines, obesity is also becoming a problem. More and more children are getting obese due to a lifestyle that is not fully of physical activities. most kids just wants to watch TV, play computer games and surf the net.