Obesity Epidemic Means Bariatric Surgery Rates Continue to Rise, Reports Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

As long as the rest of us don't pay for it, shoot for the moon.

With rising rates of morbid obesity, the number of bariatric surgery procedures is likely to increase as well, reports a paper in...Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

But if the rest of us have to, the rates had better come down.

Get it, fatsos?