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Evaluating Innovative Health Care Solutions for Obesity

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The Cost of Obesity Counseling

A lot of drugs for obesity wound up killing people or by celebrating their metabolism to a point where they died. Surgery is called bariatric and it essentially reduces the stomach in one way or another. Nutritionists are cheaper but not so effective. Counseling by doctors with doctors says, look, you're just too fat. You're endangering your life. Very effective. Downside is the doctors don't want to do it. They get very poorly paid for doing it. It would take all the doctors in the US all their time to do this, to counsel their patients. So what do you think is the best in terms of a business,best in terms of society?

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