The Coalition against Morbid Obesity has launched a social media campaign to combat morbid obesity in an attempt to break the isolation of people who are morbidly obese, raise their awareness of the dangerous effects of their disease on their health and quality of life, and inform them about the existence of an effective treatment. In two video testimonies that can be found on YouTube and the Coalition’s Website (www.lepoidsquitue. com) and Facebook page, women speak about their experiences with this condition. In the first video, a woman talks about becoming aware of the fact that she could not fight this disease alone and about the help she sought out. In the second video, another woman talks about her decision to undergo bariatric surgery in 2004, which was a choice she made to improve her quality of life. In the campaign’s second stage, people with morbid obesity will be invited to create their own video message. The Coalition hopes that this campaign will go viral to encourage people with morbid obesity to learn more about the disease, about the dangers it presents to their health and quality of life, and about bariatric surgery.
