Worsening obesity epidemic calls for new approach
“We’re going to have to revamp the health system to address obesity as a chronic disease,” said Sharma, who is also scientific director of the Canadian Obesity Network. “There’s no cure, there’s no quick fix. It’s going to be long-term project.”
Canadian MDs consider denying fertility treatments to obese women
Arya Sharma, a leading expert on obesity at the University of Alberta, doesn’t agree that technical risks should exclude women from access to fertility treatments since “obese people undergo surgeries and all sorts of procedures all the time.” But he does feel obese women should try to lose weight before turning to IVF to conceive, since it is a risky and costly procedure they have to pay for themselves: “Why take the risks or spend the money, if you don’t need it?”
Alberta targets obesity with surgery and education
“Let us spend our health care dollars where we can really make a difference,” said Dr. Arya Sharma, medical director of the Alberta Health Services Obesity Initiative.
South Asians at higher risk of obesity-related health problems
“This means, that for the same level of BMI, South Asians are much more likely to develop diabetes or heart disease,” Arya Sharma, director of the Canadian Obesity Network, chair of obesity research and management at the University of Alberta and study co-author said in an e-mail.
Provincial obesity rate higher than national average, says study
“This is not going to be a quick fix, where we open a bunch of exercise and diet clinics,” Dr. Arya Sharma said. “We need to sell people, including health-care professionals, on the idea that this is not just a bunch of lazy people.”
Obesity report ‘misleading’
“The notion that 15 minutes of extra activity and eating more fruits and vegetables will have any noticeable impact on this epidemic is both simplistic and misleading,” says Dr. Arya Sharma
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