Sounds reasonable to me. If expensive surgeries are going to be provided at all, they should at least be provided to those who will benefit most from them. Obviously the failing point is the one where you must become fatter to get the surgery, but you can also commit crimes to get get free healthcare, food, shelter, and water in jail.
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Anonymous2011-07-12 11:05
People who are a danger to themselves are often involuntarily commited to psychiatric hospitals, I think he should be forcibly taken to such a place where he can also be forced to eat only the healthy diet provided for him and forced to exercise.
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Anonymous2011-07-12 12:56
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But if he has liver problems and diabetes it's very difficult
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Anonymous2011-07-12 15:33
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Exercise and proper diet are primary treatments for fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes.
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Anonymous2011-07-13 3:40
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What if you're so fat you can't even get up and have hunger pains if you dont eat 6000 calories ?
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Anonymous2011-07-13 4:05
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Then you are a danger to yourself and ought to be commited.
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Anonymous2011-07-13 5:27
People who want to use tax payer money and the violence of the state to force feed fat people salads.
Makes perfect sense.
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SFBEGetsRevenge2011-07-28 22:51
Fat is fat. A fat guy gets any kind of weight-reducing surgery then he pigs himself out again. Nuff said. >:
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Anonymous2011-07-28 23:28
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Anonymous2011-07-29 4:50
>>8
Better than letting them eat themselves to death or paying for expensive surgery.
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Anonymous2011-07-29 5:34
Actually, weight loss needs not one but FOUR things:
1: Eat less. Everybody and his dog has got this. However, everybody and his dog also seems to've got stuck here. This is the main reason weight loss projects fail so often; there's more to it.
2: Eat right. The phrase "mixed diet" comes in here. Less meat, more fruit&veg. Diet experts go on about this for a reason.
3: Eat often. Seems backwards, but it's true. Keep too long between meals, and your body think there's a famine, and goes into rabid savings mode. Combat this by eating often (every 2-3 hours), but little at a time; just enough to not feel hungry.
4: Physical activity. Move! Burn calories. Doesn't matter (too much) exactly how, as long as it doesn't get too boring. The reason for that, should be obvious.
Also, fun fact: Muscle tissue burns energy, even when resting & chillaxing. Fat tissue burns zero energy, always. This makes it a good idea to train for strength to reduce weight (as well as how muscles improves your looks in a way that fat doesn't).
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Anonymous2011-07-29 5:39
Also, there's more to gastric surgery than meets the eye. I don't remember the details, but there are several different types out there, all having side-effects that depend largely on the individual. And to top it off, those are often impossible to know beforehand...