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A million dollar study on obesity treatments is on the cards
as BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and the University
at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions
today announced that they are going to conduct a five-year
research and treatment program for the severely obese that
will study the effects of weight-loss alternatives to gastric
bypass surgery.
The program which will cost $5 million is
going to be a landmark effort to stem the public-health obesity
crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
the annual cost of obesity in the United States is $117 billion
including health-care expenses and lost productivity. An estimated
$4.5 billion was spent on gastric bypass surgery in 2005 alone,
a 1,000 percent increase over 1995. Apart from weight loss
surgeries, the treatment of obesity is possible with diet
pills. Phentermine
diet pills are an effective means of short weight loss.
Read the complete news article here:
http://www.buffalo.edu
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