I am very much opposed to the idea that fat children 'should be taken from parents and given stomach-stapling surgery'.

Exclusive: Fat children 'should be taken from parents and given stomach-stapling surgery'
Article in the Telegraph

Extract:

"Tam Fry, a member of the National Obesity Forum's board, will tell a key conference that young people who are overfed by their parents should be treated as victims of abuse, just as malnourished children are.

He will argue that authorities should take obese children away from their families and into care, and that those whose health is at risk should then undergo stomach-stapling operations.

Mr Fry said parents should be allowed to visit their overweight children in hospital, but they must first be "frisked" to ensure they are not trying to smuggle them junk food or fizzy drinks.

He admits his ideas are radical and that he will likely lose a debate on whether child obesity should be treated as a form of abuse, to be held at the forum's annual conference on Tuesday.

But Mr Fry insists Britain's obesity epidemic poses such a risk to public health, with the overweight likely to suffer from heart disease and diabetes, that drastic action must be taken."

This guy is so dangerously ignorant of the facts about weight gain and weight loss, especially with regard to child obesity, that I believe he poses a threat to the health of overweight children and should at the very least be removed from the board of the National Obesity Forum. - If his suggestion were to be acted upon, this would be very harmful to the children chosen to endure the stomach-stapling operations.

Here are some FACTS about obesity:

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Children and Obesity

vulnerable groups

See Sodium in foods

A new pill is being developed. It is claimed it can help dieters lose an average of a 21 pounds over six months - but of course it isn't safe...)o:

Diet pill hailed an alternative to obesity surgery
Telegraph article

Extract:

"Tesofensine, which alters the brain chemicals controlling appetite making a patient feel full, has been hailed as a possible alternative to gastric banding, surgery or stomach stapling in the fight against obesity.

But there are some concerns about the drug, which could be on the market, in three years time. Side-effects include nausea, diarrhoea, constipation, insomnia and an increased heart-rate, which could cause problems for the obese, who are already at risk of cardiac disease.

Professor Arne Astrup, the International Association for the Study of Obesity president, said: “You could easily come up to 20 per cent weight loss which could offer an alternative to the surgical treatment of obesity which has become the only real cure or effective treatment that can provide a weight loss of that size.”

The professor is not telling the truth. - The most reliable, effective, easy, quick way to lose excess weight is to stop eating salt and salty food. - By giving up salt and salty food - and giving up dieting and counting calories - an obese person can EASILY AND SAFELY lose up to 14 pounds (a stone) in a month. One person, Joyce Barnard, easily lost 70 pounds (5 stones) in a year by giving up dieting and simply avoiding salt and salty food.

Read my Mensa article Obesity and the Salt Connection

All that is necessary to curb the growing incidence of obesity is to tell the truth about what causes it! - Obesity is NOT caused by overeating. It is caused by fluid retention, frequently because of taking prescribed medications, especially steroids such as prednisolone, prednisone and HRT, and anti-depressants such as amitriptyline. (When doctors prescribe drugs that cause sodium retention and water retention they should warn the patient not to eat salt, or food containing salt, while taking the medication. When they do not give this warning, the inevitable consequence is considerable weight gain.)

Read here about the groups of people who are vulnerable to salt: vulnerable groups

Obesity can be easily reduced by seriously reducing your salt/sodium intake and eating plenty of fruit and fresh vegetables. - It is important not to restrict calories. - 'Slimming' or 'dieting' is unnecessary, ineffective and often harmful.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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'Primary school children could soon be undergoing stomach-stapling surgery as Britain's obesity epidemic worsens, a senior medical director has warned

Obesity crisis 'will lead to children having their stomachs stapled'

It is a crime and a sin, and above all a dreadful tragedy, that the 'experts' - the medical profession and the nutritionists - are STILL not telling the truth about how obesity is caused and how it is best prevented/reduced. - See my notes that appear after this extract from the Telegraph:

"Steve Ryan, of Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, said "significant numbers" of children aged two and three were being classed as obese. Conditions normally seen in middle age, such as Type 2 diabetes and sleep apnoea, were increasingly common among teenagers, he warned.

Mr Ryan said it is was "almost certain" that surgeons will have to staple children's stomachs within a few years.

At present, weight-loss surgery is only performed on adults when all other methods have failed. Although the procedure can lead to complications, Dr Ryan believes that for some children it will prove the best option."

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

Children and Obesity

vulnerable groups

See Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions

amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

See FAT RETENTION

advice for pregnant mothers

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - social and economic considerations

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.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
How to Lose weight!

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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods and

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http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - social and economic considerations

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A lovely bride has died of starvation after years of unsuccessful dieting led her to try obesity surgery - with catastrophic results.

Bride who had stomach stapled died of starvation - Daily Mail

Extract:

"A bride desperate to be slim for her wedding day died of starvation after stomach stapling surgery went wrong. Emma Favell, 32, paid a Belgian clinic £7,000 to carry out the radical procedure and within six months her weight dropped from 23 stones to 15 stones.

By the time she married in March, she weighed around eight-and-a-half stones and was able to slip into a size 8 wedding dress.

But an inquest has heard how a mistake in the operation meant she was not able to give her body the nutrition she needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle and she died a month later.

South Staffordshire Coroner's Court was told that Mrs Favell had suffered years of depression over her size.

The nurse, from Burton upon Trent, spent months researching the treatment before picking out a Sint Blasius clinic in Belgium, where the procedure is carried out for half the £14,000 price tag in the UK.

During stomach stapling, surgeons usually close off some of the patient's small intestine, leaving a smaller area where food and gastric juices can mix."

Such a sad story. Dieting does not reduce obesity, as this unfortunate young lady found out, and obesity surgery carries a high degree of risk. She has been poorly served by doctors.

The safe way to lose excess weight is to give up dieting, eat good healthy meals, low in salt, and eat plenty of fruit and fresh vegetables.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
How to Lose weight!

See my website http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/.html
(The site does not sell anything and has no banners or sponsors or adverts - just helpful information.)

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods and

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html - my 'political' page

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - social and economic considerations

I can be contacted via my website if you need my further help. My help is free.