SanitationWorker wrote in message ...
Obviously it didn't work for him because he has psychological problems
like most people that much overweight. Sure it's the easy way out but
atleast it's a way out, it's like taking a drug for depression. You could
tell people to try and be happy or you can let them take a drug which
messes with the chemicals in their brain and make them happy. There is
nothing wrong with that and nothing wrong with the surgery if you don't see
yourself being able to do it without those aids.

I agree about the lap band to some extent because it is safer and
fully reversible. But for the $10,000 to $20,000 this surgery costs
one would think we would be able to devise a more cost-effective
weight loss solution. Home-gyms, engineered 2000 kcal/day diets,
personal therapy, some combination of that, something.

RNY and other irreversible WLS approaches are terribly risky, horribly
disfiguring, and permanent quasi-solutions to very temporary problems,
at least for most people. And probably not that cost-effective in the
long run, since they are (mostly) working on symptoms and not root
causes of obesity.

Most anybody committed to losing up to 1%/week of their bodyweight can
do so without undue stress, or serious hunger. I consider most WLS
surgical centers to be one rung below slime on the morality scale.
What a capital waste of our nation's medical resources.