'Obesity surgery 'should be last resort' for children.' - The first and by far the safest resort should be reducing the amount of salt they eat.

Obesity surgery 'should be last resort' for children

I believe this is more likely to prove to be a harmful, dangerous procedure rather than a therapeutic measure...)o:

All that is normally necessary to lose excess weight is to eat less salt, i.e. to reduce one's sodium intake, and to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. It is particularly important for children to have a low salt intake, because salt is more harmful to children than it is to adults, and high salt intake is actually the cause of child obesity. See http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/children.html