700,000 obese Britons need stomach stapling: - like a hole in the head they need stomach stapling!

700,000 obese Britons need stomach stapling - Sunday Telegraph

Extract:

"Almost 700,000 people are so fat that they need drastic surgery to tackle their weight problems, the Government's health watchdog has found.

Despite the scale of the obesity crisis, primary care trusts (PCTs), fearful that the £3 billion cost of the operations would cripple the NHS, are restricting surgery to the most desperate cases. Last year, fewer than 5,000 such operations were performed.

Analysis of the guidance drawn up by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) reveals that 688,000 people in England, classified as "morbidly obese", are entitled to be fitted with gastric bands or to have stomach stapling operations to reduce the amount of food they consume.

Nice says that anyone with a body mass index (BMI) above 40 should be offered surgery if other attempts to lose weight fail after six months, and those with a BMI above 50 should go under the knife immediately. A BMI of 40 equates to a man of 5ft 9in weighing 19 stone and a woman of 5ft 4in weighing almost 17 stone."

Obesity is not caused by overeating, as evidenced by the many slim 'gannets' around, so risky surgery designed to reduce the amount that a fat person eats is inappropriate and undesirable. - Obviously a fat person requires more calories to carry a heavier body around and so needs more food than a slim person. - Unfortunately most overweight people are dieting/restricting calorie intake most of the time and this is counterproductive because it increases their tendency to fluid retention, the real cause of their excess weight. Fluid retention/obesity can easily, safely and rapidly be reduced by cutting down on salt and salty food.

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