Saturday, January 5, 2008

Australia to pay for teen Gastric Bypass surgery.

This just in from The Center for the Lack of Common Sense:

OBESE people as young as 14 would get free weight-reduction surgery under a radical Australian Medical Association proposal to tackle the obesity crisis.

The Opposition and health groups have backed the scheme for publicly funded weight loss surgery, which was proposed by the association in a submission to the State Government.

The most common weight-reduction operation is lap-band surgery, in which a band is placed around the stomach to constrict it and reduce hunger.

Victorian medical experts are trialling the surgery on 25 teenagers as young as 14, with another 25 adolescents doing conventional diet and exercise programs to compare the results.

Health experts said the operation — known as bariatric surgery — worked best on younger people, and could boost life expectancy.

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Douglas Travis, the president of AMA Victoria, said: "Obesity is now classified as one of the national health priorities by the new federal minister, and it's a big problem for Australia. Once you are morbidly obese, almost all of the talking, walking magic cures don't work." In its 2008-09 budget submission, the AMA has called on the State Government to fund five public hospitals to provide 3000 obesity-related operations over the next three years, at a cost of $40.5 million.

Read the rest: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/free-surgery-plan-to-fight-obesity/2008/01/05/1198950131112.html?s_cid=rss_news

Commentary:

I have some advice for those 'down under' to ponder as they through another shrimp on the barbe; put some veggies on the grill too, and perhaps serve up some fresh veggies--but mutilate the stomachs of your youth as a way to end obesity? At a cost of $40 million dollars?! I think it may be true what they say about Aussies, they are wacky folks!

We are NOT born with stomachs that are too large and therefore become Obese simply because our stomach are too large and will therefore become healthy once our stomachs have been surgically mutated. We will become healthier when we eat diets that are what our bodies were designed to consume; fruits, vegetables, protein, whole grains, water and we get our butts up off the couch and start moving more and being more active rather than playing video games, watching TV and just being plain lazy!

Austrailia is in for a world of trouble if they start giving kids the idea that you can keep eating junk food, allowing your health to deteriorate, get your body stuffed with fat and then just let a doctor clamp your stomach shut to solve your problems.

Let's ask this, if we were talking about your home's garbage disposal and sink, and you just kept piling all you could down the drain, but then just clamped it smaller--what would happen? Same junk going in, maybe a bit less each time, but where it ends up is smaller? BIG problems, that's what!

Folks, bottom line, the lack of Gastric Bypass surgery and lap bands is not WHY we are obese at alarming rates or why our kids are; we are Obese because we drink Coca-Cola and other high fructose corn syrup laced beverages, eat McDonald's and other high fat fried fast foods and we aren't active.

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