South Africans are getting more overweight and obese with time, due to their genetics and their food and lifestyle choices. A lack of exercise or a sedentary lifestyle, with vehicles to take them everywhere, also contributes.
All of this increases the risk of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, and eventually cancers and death.
Patients going to a slimming clinic are often desperate and are looking for a “quick fix”, whether that entails a diet plan, medication, slimming machines, injections, surgery, or whatever it may take in the end…
Not choosing wisely or not consulting a doctor for medication, injections or slimming treatments may lead to lay people injecting pharmacological agents that are not approved by the MCC (Medicines Control Council). These can have severe side effects, causing complications and…