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A Medieval Medical View on Obesity
1Section of Cell Biology and Experimental Pathology, Haddow Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG UK.
Obesity Surgery
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
Medieval medical views on obesity are presented from Avicenna's Canon of Medicine. Health risks associated with obesity were appreciated, including respiratory and cardiovascular problems, infertility and even sudden death.