Posted by: Curt | Under: Diet and Weight Loss, General Fitness | (0) Comments
I saw this over at Reuters this morning. Kinda good news, bad news in my mind.
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BOSTON (Reuters) – Gastric bypass surgery not only helps obese people drop weight and look better, it also helps them live significantly longer, according to two reports published on Wednesday.
The studies in the New England Journal of Medicine confirm what doctors had long suspected but never proved.
The years gained are significant, with lifespan prolonged by up to 40 percent and rates of diabetes, cancer and heart disease all lower.
“The question as to whether intentional weight loss improves life span has been answered, and the answer appears to be a resounding yes,” Dr. George Bray of Louisiana State University wrote in a commentary.
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One of the big problems with this is the simple fact that it forces a change in someones lifestyle when in fact they really didn’t want to change. Like I’ve said before “people change when they want to”. I don’t know the statistics, but a fair number of people who get this surgery lose a lot of weight initially and then start to gain it back since they can slowly stretch out their stomach again. On top of that, nothing is keeping them from eating all the wrong kinds of food. So they tend to eat high calorie, low nutritional value junk. I know of a couple of cases like this. I don’t know what the answer is, but America will soon be the land of fat people, gastric bypass and heart bypass surgery. Somehow we have to teach our next generation that it is better to go out and do things rather than sit in front of a TV playing video games and eating junk food. With the natural bent of man towards laziness, I wonder if it is possible in an extremely affluent society like ours.
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