Every day hundreds of Americans will die from obesity, a chronic, debilitating ache affecting added than 34 percent of adults and 17 percent of accouchement in the United States. That is why Atlanta bariatric weight accident surgeon, James Champion, M.D., is hosting the Atlanta-area Walk from Obesity – a 5K run/walk to accession money for blubber treatment, prevention, education, and research. Obesity is a boundless botheration with added than two thirds of all Americans accepting ample or obese. The Walk from Obesity is a fun, family-friendly accident to advice accompany calm the millions of humans afflicted by blubber and draw absorption to this important cause.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) September 1, 2009 -- Help us airing from blubber and appear a bigger approaching on Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Piedmont Park! Every year the Walk from Obesity raises money through Walk advocacy and donations to added their mission to accompany calm all who are afflicted by blubber and to draw civic absorption to the charge for awareness, treatment, and advancement initiatives. This year, the Walk will be hosted by Dr. J.K. (Ken) Champion, arch of the Videoscopic Institute – a Marietta and Atlanta bariatric surgery practice. Other bounded and civic volunteers accommodating in the Walk accident cover patients, blubber specialists, nurses, association workers, healthcare professionals, the healthcare industry, anxious citizens, and abounding more.
Dr. Champion is host of the Atlanta Walk from Obesity and has adherent his career to allowance humans action aberrant obesity. He says humans afflicted by the action charge to apperceive that there are means to get help. “Obesity is a boundless botheration with added than two thirds of all Americans accepting ample or obese. The Walk from Obesity is a fun, family-friendly accident to advice accompany calm the millions of humans afflicted by blubber and draw absorption to this important cause.”
Registration to participate in the Walk is $25 in advanced and $30 the day of the Walk; those 12 and beneath can annals chargeless of charge. You can annals at the official Walk from Obesity website, or at the accident itself. Walkers in the accident can accession money through advocacy by friends, family, co-workers, bounded organizations, and/or businesses. In accession to ambler income, funds are aloft through bounded business accident sponsorship, analogous gifts, and accumulated contributions
Each year the Walk continues to grow. Total donations from 2007 exceeded $2.3 actor and in 2008, added than 12,000 alternate in 70 locations above the United States. All money aloft goes to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) to abide analysis and apprenticeship – basic locations of advancing blubber treatments and adopting civic awareness.
Fitness for a Better Future Contest!
This year, Walk from Obesity Atlanta is giving abroad 8 weeks of chargeless claimed training sessions with certified claimed trainer, Daryl Madison of Lifestyle Fitness to one Walk participant. Registered walkers/runners can access the challenge by appointment their adventure and cogent why they are accessible to accomplish the change to a healthy, fit lifestyle. Contest entries have to be submitted to contest@drchampion.com by September 20. Contest data can be begin here.
Walk from Obesity
The Walk from Obesity was accustomed to accession acquaintance of the blubber catching and to abutment initiatives absorption on prevention, education, research, treatment, and advocacy. Proceeds from the Walk account the absolute educational and analysis initiatives of the ASMBS Foundation and the Obesity Action Coalition. Walkers accession money by allurement friends, family, and co-workers to sponsor them. In accession to ambler income, funds are aloft through sponsorship, analogous gifts, accumulated contributions, and added fundraising activities.
Dr. J.K. Champion is a bariatric surgeon based in the Atlanta, Georgia area. He is a nationally accustomed able in videoscopic accepted and thoracic surgery. Offering procedures to advice Atlanta obesity sufferers and those from above the nation, Dr. Champion is the architect of the Videoscopic Institute of Atlanta PC. He is board-certified by The American Board of Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Champion is aswell a affiliate of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, the Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, and the American Society of Bariatric Surgery. He currently holds an bookish position as Clinical Professor of Surgery at Mercer University, and has served as Director of Endosurgical Education at the Emory Endosurgical Center, Emory University School of Medicine.
For added advice on the Walk from Obesity and weight accident anaplasty in Marietta and the Atlanta area, the convenance of J.K. Champion, M.D. F.A.C.S can be accomplished at 140 Vann Street, Suite 350, Marietta, Georgia 30060 – (770) 574-4868. www.drchampion.com
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