by James N. Lau, MD, FACS; and Myriam J. Curet, MD, FACS Both are with Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University

INTRODUCTION

Obesity is a well recognized public health epidemic affecting not only the United States, but the world. “This insidious, creeping pandemic of obesity is now engulfing the entire world,” Australia’s Monash University professor Paul Zimmet, Chair of the 10th International Congress on Obesity, said on the opening day of the conference. Mounting evidence now rates obesity, with its multiple comorbid diseases, as the second most preventable cause of death next to smoking in the US.

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