Costa Ricans
Prefer Quick Lose Weight
Methods Instead of
Exercise and Diet
A recent study shows
that almost half of all
Costa Ricans suffer from
obesity and the reason
why many Costa Ricans
should try to lose a few
pounds.
Overweight and obesity
are considered a global
epidemic, affecting some
300.000 million adults
and 22 million children
under the age of 5
around the world. In
Costa Rica, more than
1.5 million are included
in those numbers.
And that is the reason
why the losing of weight
has passed from a fad to
one of importance to
maintain health and the
reason for the recent
growth in lose weight
fast options.
Costa Ricans generally
do not want to put in
the effort and the time
it takes to lose weight
through exercise and
diet, preferring the
quick methods to losing
weight.
Liposuction is among the
quick methods preferred
by Costa Ricans. The
main reason is that this
method offers results
quickly.
Other lose weight quick
methods include
acupuncture and
mesotherapy treatment.
Mesotherary, pioneered
by the French physician
Dr. Michel Pistor in
1952, is a minimally
invasive procedure that
is widely used in Europe
and elsewhere with
microinjections of
conventional or
homeopathic medicines,
vitamins, minerals and
amino acids. Tiny
"medicinal bullets" are
delivered directly into
the mesoderm (middle
layer of skin) that are
highly specific to the
condition being treated.
Mesotherapy can take up
to two or three months
and can cost up to
¢30.000 colones (us$58)
per session.
Gastric by-pass surgery
is another choice
preferred by Costa
Ricans, whereby the
surgery makes the
stomach smaller and
allows food to bypass
part of the small
intestine. One feels
full more quickly than
when the stomach was its
original size, which
reduces the amount of
food eaten and thus the
calories consumed.
Bypassing part of the
intestine also results
in fewer calories being
absorbed. This leads to
weight loss.
The surgery to reduce
obesity or promote
weight loss is performed
at CCSS (state)
hospitals Calderón and
México and also at
private hospital and
clinics. The state
hospitals have long
waiting list while the
is no waiting at the
private clinics, the
cost can be more than ¢6
million colones
(us$11.600).
In contract to natural
weight loss through
exercise and diet, the
medical treatments imply
risks for each procedure
through complications
than can include
infections and death. |
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