Surgical Weight-Loss Patients 'Walk From Obesity'

Local patients who have undergone weight-loss surgery and their families and friends will symbolically “walk away” from a life of excessive weight gain at the fourth annual Walk From Obesity.

The three-mile local walk will begin at 9 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 29, at Winton Woods, 1024 Winton Rd., Greenhills.

Obese people are at increased risk for other illnesses, including type-2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, osteoarthritis and respiratory problems.

Bariatric weight-loss surgery (primarily gastric bypass) reduces a patient’s stomach size to limit the amount of food and bypass a portion of the digesting system. The procedure is available to obese patients who have tried traditional weight-loss strategies and failed.