| Often when a new weight loss patient comes into | | | | fatigue, depression among others. In 2005, obesity |
| my office, their top objective for starting the | | | | surpassed tobacco use as the number one |
| Serotonin-Plus Weight Loss Program is to look | | | | preventable form of death facing Americans. Diet |
| good for beach season, or fit into an old dress, or | | | | and physical inactivity accounted for 400,000 |
| to look attractive again to their partner. Many | | | | deaths in 2000, or about 16.6% of total deaths. |
| patients overlook the most important reason to | | | | Tobacco, with 435,000 deaths, was 18.1% of the |
| lose weight, which is to reduce the serious health | | | | total, says research in today's Journal of the |
| risks associated with obesity. | | | | American Medical Association. According to |
| There are many serious health factors associated | | | | Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human |
| with obesity - diabetes, high blood pressure, | | | | Nutrition at Washington University School of |
| cholesterol issues, sleep apnea, chronic pain, | | | | Medicine in St. |