CHUV services unite to treat obesity
A new Obesity Center will fight against this chronic disease, which affects 11% of Swiss people, by placing patients at the heart of care. Testimony.
The Obesity Center will determine with the patient which measures suit him, in the form of realistic objectives and gradually implemented.
KEYSTONE/Laurent Gillieron
“I felt like a prisoner of my body for thirty-five years. I didn’t dare to go to the swimming pool, even with my children, or simply to walk around. I had surgery, but I also had to change my way of life, my way of being and thinking. For me, it went through erasing the feeling of guilt and lifting the prohibitions that years of diets had imposed on me. Susanne*, 53, had a bypass operation six years ago, after two years of preparation with multiple specialists: dietician, psychologist, doctor, surgeon. The CHUV then followed her for six years. “The key to my long-term success,” insists the Vaudoise.