What is Morbid Obesity?


Morbid obesity is a chronic disease and may linger on for entire lifetime. It is caused due to excessive storage of fats in one’s body. Ratio of fats in one’s body is calculated through BMI (Body Mass Index) calculator.

Morbid obesity is not same as being obese or overweight. Overweight and obesity conditions are reversible through medical management and intervention while morbid obesity requires surgical cure. People who suffer from morbid obesity have a tendency to gain weight extremely easily and sustaining the weight is equally tough for them.

Morbid obesity leads to many physical, psychological, social and economic let downs for the sufferer. A person suffering from morbid obesity is very much prone to high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart stroke, gallstone disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer. People who are suffering from morbid obesity are socially ridiculed and are looked down upon by others which may lead to psychological problems like depression, low self worth and inferiority complex among them. Such psychological problems and discrimination at work place may lead to further socio-economic problems for the patients.

Just like other diseases, morbid obesity also needs to be treated.  Morbid obesity needs to be identified as a major cause of many physical and mental problems. Patients have to understand the need for surgical correctives incase of morbid obesity and the fact that the disease is incurable and uncontrollable on one’s own. Trust Max Institute of Minimal Access for the best of healthcare, holistic recovery and rehabilitation after the surgical curative procedures for morbid obesity.

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