Obese teens turn to surgery as last resort

More parental and sick care industry child abuse.

"In yet another sign of America's escalating childhood weight crisis, increasing numbers of morbidly obese teenagers have decided they will never control their eating without surgery...

Overweight adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight or obese adults...

'Most of them, if not all of them, have a parent who is morbidly obese or obese,' says Dr. Emma Patterson, medical director of the obesity institute and a surgeon with Oregon Weight Loss Surgery."

Then there are the lies justifying the sick care industry's abuse of children:

"What's more, many doctors agree, saying that if accompanied by rigorous follow-up, surgically restricting the stomach's capacity might be the only answer for America's heaviest and sickest teenagers...

It's not as if doctors "have a way that will work and these kids just aren't doing it," Washington says..."

Liar.

Fewer Calories in than out works 100% of the time.

But when diet advice is bad, no one can succeed. Including kids.

So they turn to child abuse in bigger and bigger ways:

"Laparoscopic adjustable gastric bands work by creating a small pouch above the stomach that fills quickly and empties slowly. Surgeons can adjust the band by injecting saline solution through a port in the skin. The band limits the amount of food a person can eat, and it seems to diminish patients' hunger, though doctors aren't sure why. Once the device is in place, patients will vomit if they eat too much or too quickly.

It's not a cure-all, and patients must make significant behavior changes to lose weight.

'It's a tool. You can defeat it if you try,' Patterson says. 'You can drink caramel macchiatos all day long, drink a lot of calories, sit on the couch all day long and not burn a single calorie.'

For that reason, some surgeons prefer permanent gastric bypass surgery to gastric banding, even in teens. Philip Schauer, immediate past president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, says he's performed bariatric surgery on 50 adolescents ages 12 to 19. Most have had gastric bypass, which limits stomach capacity and reroutes the digestive system to inhibit calorie and nutrient absorption.

With gastric banding, 'the one clear advantage is that it's less invasive. Everyone is nervous about the possibility of something happening to a teenager with these surgeries,' Schauer says.

But, he says, the band requires frequent adjustments, tough to fit into the schedule of busy teens and young adults. And compulsive eaters might not have the willpower to avoid liquid calories."

Bariatric surgery is a sickness of malpractice visited on a population led to failure by its experts.

Fight back, if only to help the kids.