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Dr Samuel Baker
Bernard Green
From 213kgs to Personal Trainer Dr. Samuel Baker and North Queensland Obesity Surgery Centre help Bernard Green lose weight and transform his life. IN 2013, Bernard Green looked at a recent photograph of himself taken one evening whilst celebrating with his sister and didn’t want to acknowledge the man staring back in the photo was actually him. His weight had blown out to 213 kilograms. Bernard was unhealthy, very unhappy and in that moment of time he realised he had been fooling himself about his weight, happiness and health. “I needed to be honest with myself that it was a problem and I needed to take measures to sort it out,” says Bernard, who started calling surgeon clinics in Townsville and Brisbane. “That’s when I enlisted the help of Dr Baker and his staff at North Queensland Obesity Surgery Centre.” That was the first step in Bernard’s incredible weight loss journey. Bernard engaged the expertise of Dr. Samuel Baker and his team at North Queensland Obesity Surgery Centre (NQOSC) and his total weight lost so far has been an impressive 85kg, which has seen his life improve dramatically. Now experiencing a new career as a personal trainer, Bernard encourages others to transform their lives. He has become part of Dr. Baker’s multi-disciplinary team at North Queensland Obesity Surgery Centre
offering weight loss patients personal training programs. North Queensland Obesity Surgery Centre opened in 2007. Dr. Baker has performed weight loss surgical procedures on over 800 patients and his multidisciplinary team have guided and supported them to achieve their goals, which includes maintained weight loss, reversal of type 2 diabetes, reduction in blood pressure and cholesterol and cessation of numerous medications. You may ask, ’why do people need surgery when there is a simple formula to lose weight? Simply eat less and move more! But it is not that simple. Evidence shows few people can keep the weight off. “Unfortunately only 3% of overweight people can lose weight and maintain it for more than two years with just diet and exercise,” says Dr. Baker. “Surgery is the only scientifically proven sustainable weight loss treatment presently available. With surgery, we can reduce a person’s risk of dying from obesity related diseases by at least 30% over 20 years. We can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by 80%, fatal heart attack and stroke by 45% and cancers by 42%.” North Queensland Obesity Surgery
Centre offers a multidisciplinary weight loss program utilising nurses, bariatric physicians, dietitians, psychologists, personal trainers, exercise physiologists, and a specialist bariatric surgeon. Each potential patient has their treatment program carefully considered by both themselves and Dr. Baker. Lifelong follow up and support is offered. Current available options include intragastric balloon, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. For more information please visit www.nqobesitysurgery.com.au or call 1300 WEIGH LESS (1300 93444 5377).
March 2016 DUOMagazine
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