Surgeon Becomes Weight Loss Guru
For most of
his career, Dr. Jim Mault was working to perfect the difficult surgical
procedures required in heart-lung transplantation.
Now he's turned
his attentions to helping obese people diet.
Mault says
the key to losing weight is understanding your metabolism and he's invented
a gadget to do just that. Published reports indicate Mault has perfected
a cell phone-sized unit that will soon go into full production.
The hand-held
device was first introduced into small clinics for testing. Then it was
accepted in hospitals and will soon get nationwide distribution. The unit,
called the BodyGem, helps dieters calculate the number of calories they
are burning based on activity and metabolic rate.
Mault says
this country is facing a "fat crisis." He says he is seeing more and more
obese patients. The problem is eclipsing smoking as the leading preventable
disease in the country.
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