[The potentials for the balneotherapy of obesity using arsenic-containing mineral water]

Arsenic mineral water from the Sinegorsk springs was tried in the treatment of experimental alimentary obesity in rat Wistar males and patients with exogenous-constitutional obesity. Body mass, blood lipids, hepatic neutral lipids, glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase were measured. Arsenic mineral water proved able to reduce excessive body mass, correct blood lipid spectrum, normalize metabolic processes in the liver. Thus, arsenic mineral water can be used in balneotherapy of obesity.