61% of South Africans are overweight, obese or morbidly obese.Obesity % by major city are as follows
Cape Town (72% )
Pretoria (68%),
Johannesburg (59%)
Durban (52%).
Do you need Bariatric Surgery? Don’t have Medical Aid… Losing weight isn’t easy — and for many severely overweight people, exercise and diet simply aren’t effective enough to shed significant weight. When all else has failed, many people start thinking about weight loss surgery, also called bariatric surgery. You likely have questions about…
We talk a lot about dieting and burning off fat, but we actually have a lot of misconceptions about weight loss. Some people think fat is converted into energy or heat—a violation of the law of conservation of mass—while others think that the fat is somehow excreted or even converted to muscle. I was told…
It can be said that Life is like a hiking trail. Sometimes, you are standing on firm ground, but other times you have to watch the rocks crumble beneath your feet. Sometimes, you have to climb higher to stay away from danger, just as sometimes you have to go lower to avoid falling rocks. Other…
It doesn’t matter what you choose to do: join a gym; get a pedometer and take at least 10,000 steps a day; get up every 20 minutes and stretch; or join a dance class. Get active! Living a sedentary life slows your metabolism down, it makes it more likely that you will be overweight, and it…
The Christmas Holidays are nearly upon us, and, like you, our Bariatric Surgery Support Group is looking forward to a well-deserved rest over the coming days. Before we break for festivities we would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our Members, The Support Group Committee, Dr Potgieter, Dr Swanepoel, Judy…
Mental health conditions, such as depression and binge eating disorder, are common among patients seeking and undergoing bariatric surgery, according to a study, ‘Mental Health Conditions Among Patients Seeking and Undergoing Bariatric Surgery – A Meta-analysis’, published in JAMA. Although bariatric surgery is an accepted method of promoting weight loss in…