A 2-year-old boy had weight loss surgery!

A 2-year-old Saudi Arabian boy is the youngest person ever to get a bariatric surgery. 

         He got his stomach stapled because he was too obese at 73 pounds and had health complications as a result.  The boy's parents had already tried to keep his weight down. He was 47 pounds at 14 months old. Earlier attempts to control his weight had proven futile.  The boy was suffering from sleep apnea and bowing of the legs. Doctors decided on an irreversible surgery in which they removed the outer part of his stomach.  The boy lost about 15% of his body weight two months after the surgery. He eventually got down to a normal BMI. However, some doctors think this might result in vitamin deficiencies later on.  

       Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Interesting/A-2-year-old-Boy-Had-Weight-Loss-Surgery/58917#WO6seuOqalz5bPUC.99

A 2-year-old Saudi Arabian boy is the youngest person ever to get a bariatric surgery. He got his stomach stapled because he was too obese at 73 pounds and had health complications as a result.
The boy's parents had already tried to keep his weight down. He was 47 pounds at 14 months old. Earlier attempts to control his weight had proven futile.
The boy was suffering from sleep apnea and bowing of the legs. Doctors decided on an irreversible surgery in which they removed the outer part of his stomach.
The boy lost about 15% of his body weight two months after the surgery. He eventually got down to a normal BMI. However, some doctors think this might result in vitamin deficiencies later on.

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Interesting/A-2-year-old-Boy-Had-Weight-Loss-Surgery/58917#WO6seuOqalz5bPUC.99

A 2-year-old Saudi Arabian boy is the youngest person ever to get a bariatric surgery. He got his stomach stapled because he was too obese at 73 pounds and had health complications as a result.
The boy's parents had already tried to keep his weight down. He was 47 pounds at 14 months old. Earlier attempts to control his weight had proven futile.
The boy was suffering from sleep apnea and bowing of the legs. Doctors decided on an irreversible surgery in which they removed the outer part of his stomach.
The boy lost about 15% of his body weight two months after the surgery. He eventually got down to a normal BMI. However, some doctors think this might result in vitamin deficiencies later on.

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Interesting/A-2-year-old-Boy-Had-Weight-Loss-Surgery/58917#WO6seuOqalz5bPUC.99

Diseases from dirty water kill more people than war each year.

A third of the world’s population lack sufficient access to safe drinking water and sanitation to meet their basic needs. This means that a third of the world’s population is at high risk for arsenicosis, cholera, fluorosis, malaria, and a plethora of other diseases.

          Dirty water causes the death of over 170 million people each year. This can be compared to 10 jumbo jets crashing each year. This death toll is greater than that of all forms of violence, including wars. In fact, unclean water and poor sanitation are the second largest cause of death for children.

There's a SPA in Japan where you can bathe in coffee, tea and wine!

          Although you probably don't wanna drink any of them, a Japanese hotspring in Hakone, Japan lets you get into what is basically a giant cup of coffee, green tea or wine.

Since the park is mostly natural hotsprings, they have to brew the coffee and pour it in the pools. The spa also has a giant teapot and a giant wine bottle from where those liquids come from.

  Check out some more pics of this awesome place. http://en.ilovecoffee.jp/posts/view/38