Groupe de Réflexion sur l’Obésité et le Surpoids
Association selon la loi de 1901
Obesity goes up! ***** Is sugar prohibition the solution? ***** Obesity goes up! ***** Is sugar prohibition the solution? ***** Obesity goes up! ***** Is sugar prohibition the solution? ***** Obesity goes up! ***** Is sugar prohibition the solution? ***** Obesity goes up! ***** Is sugar prohibition the solution? ***** Obesity goes up! ***** Is sugar prohibition the solution?
Our point of view on the new french governmental sugar war, the fight beetween dietetic puritanism and frenzy consumption!
How to lose weight?

Traditional methods
Lose it smart!

GROS take a stand on the French bill regarding obesity: our open letter to Jean-Marie Le Guen

GROS supports
the diet rebellion manifesto!
The Diet rebellion manifesto

Stigmatization of obese people, the hard life of overweight people and the anxiety of those who fear becoming obese. Understand and fight against this stigmatization!

ALL SORTS OF DIETS…
A very large variety of weightloss diets exist. But is all of this really sensible?
All sorts of diets

LOSING WEIGHT IS POINTLESS…
if restriction leads to gaining back the weight lost. Alternatives solutions do exist, they take into account the problem in its entire complexity.
Avoiding foolish weight loss…

Who is concerned with weight loss surgery? How to find its way among gastroplasty, lap-band or gastric bypass? What to think of liposuction?
Is it possible to lose weight permanently with surgery ?
Another link to 06/14/2003 meeting minutes of the meeting organized by Allegro Fortissimo in Paris: Weight loss surgery and plastic surgery for obesity (in French)


WHAT ABOUT MEDICATIONS? Orlistat, sibutramine and otherappetite suppressants. And how about the latest one in the limelight, rimonabant?
Is is possible to lose weight permanently with DRUGS?


We comply with the principles of the HONcode chart of the "Health On the Net" Fundation
Monthly GROS chronicles
December 2005: Coca cola makes it mea culpa!

Also to read: Gérard Apfeldorfer and Jean-Philippe Zermati chronicles from february to november 2005
modern bulimia, eating together, feeders and feedees, exercice, eating ideas, let us protect our children, a world so healthy…
Eating disorders:

Anorexia and bulimia
Cognitive restraint and diets

Avoiding foolish weight loss:

Have you ever heard of cognitive restraint?
No? If you face difficulties with your weight and your eating behavior, if you keep asking yourself why you always end up gaining back more weight that what you have lost, have a look at:
Everything you need to know about diets and cognitive restraint

To learn more: an online scientific article (english abstract): Cognitive Restraint facing Obesity. Historical Development and Clinical Description,
Article from La Presse Médicale, nov 2001. © Masson Editeur
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Other online articles (in french): articles du HORS-SÉRIE N°116 de 60 Millions de Consommateurs, avril-mai 2004 (with the kind autorization of the magazine).
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Obeses or overweight people, suffering from their weight or from their eating behavior face complex difficulties. Our site proposes a critical overview of weight loss methods, from diets, ppetite suppressants, to gastroplasty.
We review the main obesity theories based on nutrition, biology and genetics, freudian psychology or cognitive behavioral psychology.
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