Gastric Bypass May Help Obese Teens

Child abuse with prior NIH support.

"'Teenager Amanda Munson has struggled with her weight all her life. It's a problem that runs in her family. At age 16, her 5-foot-2 frame had ballooned to 311 pounds.

'I really couldn't go anywhere,' says Munson. 'I wouldn't fit into the seats at movie theatres. I couldn't go running because it just hurt so bad and my heart would speed up too much.'"

And where were her law-breaking, nutritional child abusing parents, docs and teachers during this period of blimpification?

Well, the docs were champing at the bit to operate on the piglet.

"The Kentucky teenager said she received a dire warning from her doctors: "The doctors said you're not going to live to see 25, if this continues," she says. On March 12, 2007, Munson opted for the radical and controversial operation, which involves dramatically reducing the size of the stomach and rerouting the intestine."

And why do we "need" to do this operation?

"'It's a shame and a failure of our social and medical systems,' says Dr. Phil Zeitler, associate professor in pediatric endocrinology at the University of Colorado, 'that we have kids who are so obese that major abdominal surgery is required to cure them.'"

Wrong-o, s**thead doc.

It is a failure of parents and mandatory reporters, like you and the other docs complicit in child abuse.

And the surgery does not "cure" them, fool.

"Physicians, including the study authors, caution that gastric bypass surgery does not cure diabetes. If patients regain their weight, the diabetes can resurface."

Some professor, eh?

"Diabetes expert Dr. Steven Edelman a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, says the surgery should be a last resort -- after patients have tried changing their lifestyle through diet and exercise. Edelman says when someone has the surgery, they are rearranging the atomic (sic) structure of the stomach and patients need to have life-long follow-up."

But since diet and exercise recommendations are doomed to fail, the last resort is really the first resort.

The best option is no intervention, except good weight loss advice.

And if they refuse to lose the weight naturally, the next option should be allowing these fat kids and their child-abusing parents to live with the consequences of their choices.