Severe obesity is not a problem of willpower.

Severely overweight people are often made to feel like their problem is self-control. Research shows that the causes of obesity are more complex than a simple struggle with willpower. Genetics, medical problems, environment, learned behavior, and psychology all contribute to severe obesity. Today, medical professionals recognize obesity as a chronic disorder - not a personal failure to control weight.

The National Institutes of Health have shown that diet programs, individual or commercial, medically supervised or not, have a greater than 95% failure rate in the long run.

The vast majority of Barix Clinics' patients have tried multiple diet programs... diet pills, prescription diet aids, nutrition programs, exercise programs, dietary supplements, meal replacements, high-protein diets, carbohydrate diets, and more.

People often lose weight - only to gain it back, sometimes gaining even more. This yo-yo effect is discouraging and may bring added health risks. This fact is recognized by an increasing number of healthcare professionals and scientific publications.