Nearly 1,500 donors have pledged more than $62,000 to help pay for surgery for a 12-year-old Texas girl diagnosed as morbidly obese due to a brain disease that is causing her to gain about two pounds a week. Alexis Shapiro suffered damage to her pituitary gland, which helps regulate weight, as a result of the brain disease. Her extreme excess of body fat is clinically defined as morbid obesity. She cannot do the things she used to love," Jennifer Shapiro, her mother, said on the fundraising site GoFundMe. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
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