MORBID OBESITY

MORBID OBESITY: WILL YOU ALLOW IT TO KILL YOU? <br> <br> Following the style of his previous books Sex and the Cardiac Patient and AnsweringYour Questions About Heart Disease and Sex informative educational entertaining andbold Dr. Eduardo Chapunoff takes us this time into the complex world of the morbidlyobese.<br> <br> This work describes how and why the cardiovascular and other systems become affectedby excessive weights. His own simple schematic illustrations will help you to understandhow morbid obesity leads to heart attacks heart failure strokes sleep apnea and manyother conditions including sudden death.<br> <br> Major treatment decisions are facilitated by Dr. Chapunoff's down-to-earth explanations.Also addressed here is the unfairness and ineffectiveness of some insurance corporations incovering the costs of weight-loss surgery. For many of those who read this book -patients aswell as health care practitioners and undergraduates- the concepts and the understandingof what morbid obesity is all about will never be the same.<br> <br>