Obesity, its associated diseases and treatment

Summary

I advocate a hardening of the patient’s desire to attain results that are for their good. As a reward for successful weight reduction, or prevention of obesity, we may say to those patients, that by a return to normal body weight, they will delay or prevent the onset of chronic cardiovascular disease such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis in its various forms; certain diseases of the liver and gall bladder, perhaps arthritis, and above all diabetes; and, with these out of the way, they may then look forward to years of more endurable living in the second half of life.

I tell my fat ones that the gates of Heaven are narrow and those who would enter must conform to size.