European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                8 2007 s tars and stripes Page 13 More asians addressing with operations doctors Effort to get people to exercise eat right failing the associated press Kuala Bumpur Malaysia More asians Are turning to surgery to counter obesity As health authorities efforts to get people to exercise and eat health Ier Are apparently failing experts said thursday More than 1300 weightless surgeries have been performed in Hong Kong India Japan Malaysia South Korea and Taiwan since the Start of 2006 said Lee weiwei president of the Asia Pacific Bari Atric surgical society we expect there will be More and More in the future Lee said in Kuala Bumpur malay Sias largest City at the launch of an anti obesity conference involving 200 surgeons and medi Cal experts from 12 Asi Pacific countries popular procedures include laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding which involves wrap Ping a silicone band around the upper stomach to create a Pouch that restricts food intake Lee said he said Only about 30 surgeons in Asia can currently per form Bari Atric or obesity sur Gery sometimes recommended for morbid obesity a body mass Index or weight height measurement or 375 or higher for asians Lee said a person with a body mass Index of 25 and above is consid ered overweight surgeons Are taking Steps to improve the safety of weightless operations Lee said he said he did not have Statis tics for the number of obesity surgery complications reported in Asia conference delegates said Obe sity is rising in Many parts of Asia despite campaigns to Dis courage people from junk food and sedentary lifestyles it is becoming More apparent that the traditional approach appears to have failed in producing the desired effect judging from the increasing trend in prevalence of obesity Mohamad Ismail Noor a nutritionist at the National University of malay Sia wrote in a paper presented at the conference malaysian health minister Chua Soi Lek said at least 6 Mil lion adults were overweight or obese in Malaysia which has a population of 26 million adult obesity has tripled in the past 10 years and Only 14 percent of malaysian adults get adequate exer Cise Chua said at the forum other countries reported Simi Lar problems a 2005 Survey of 268 schools in Thailand showed that 5 per cent of children were Over weight and 12 percent were obese said Kaumaya Kyoon Choo a nutritionist at Thailand Mah idol University got a question ask Send your questions to com debuts april 1 with your weekly scene stars stripes hundreds evacuate As bomb is recovered Warsaw Poland explosive experts worked on saturday to remove an unexploded world War nera bomb from a construction site in a Western polish town and hundreds of people were evacuated from the area police said the bomb was discovered on Friday at a construction site for a new school in to Surzyn on the Border with Germany police spokesman Andrzej Kulesza said Kulesza said that up to 1500 people were evacuated from the area and that soldiers were work ing to remove the 440pound bomb and take it to a nearby Mili tary base to be defused Vatican Pope wrote for release of British troops Vatican City Pope Bene dict Xvi wrote to Iran supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to intercede for the re lease of 15 British sail ors and marines who were Cap tured in the persian Gulf n n last month Pope Benedict Xvi me Vatican said Satur Day the britons flew out of Tehran on thursday Vatican officials declined to give details about the letters the Vatican said the Pope intervened for humanitarian reasons indonesian train derails killing baby injuring 23 crowded indonesian passenger train jumped its tracks and skid ded into a Rice Field saturday kill ing a baby and injuring nearly two dozen other people a railway official said the train carrying 400 people was heading to the Central Java City of semarang when it derailed in nearby regal 185 Miles East of the capital Jakarta at am local time he said the cause is being investigated Acapulco correspondent shot to death after show Acapulco Mexico the Acapulco correspondent for mexi cos top television news network was shot to death after his radio show the latest in a wave of journalist killings that have made Mexico the most dangerous coun try for reporters in the Western hemisphere Tel visas Amado Ramirez was shot late Friday by two gunmen who were waiting for him at his car state Security official Felipe Flores said televise confirmed the death on their nightly Broad cast the gunmen escaped and the motive for the killing was not immediately Clear us Diplomat pushes for peace in Somalia Mogadishu Somalia the top us Diplomat for Africa visited Somalia on saturday to meet with the transitional government and help Shore up a ceasefire after the worst violence in the Cap ital in 15 years left hundreds dead us assistant Secretary of state for african affairs Jendayi Frazer said Somalia must forget its bloody past and focus on National reconciliation to end 16 years of conflict that has allowed the nation to become a terrorist Haven semarang Indonesia a from the associated press