Severely obese people face enhanced risks of heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes and strokes and The American Heart Association, AHA, has recommended bariatric surgery, as appropriate for the extremely obese, for whom all other options have failed to aid in weight loss and subsequent reduction of cardiovascular risks. Persons with  BMI of 40 and over qualify as severely obese, while BMI of 30 indicates obesity and BMI of 25-29.9 is an indication of overweight. According to lead author, Paul... 

The findings of a new study published in The Lancet has indicated that obesity in any which way was bad and a risk factor for heart diseases and  that it did not matter whether obese people were apple-shaped or pear-shaped. Earlier obese people were told that if they had  apple-shaped bodies, when they had excess fat around their bellies, they were three times more prone to suffer heart attacks than those, who were pear-shaped and had the fat distributed around the buttocks and hips with a...