Weight-Loss Operations Popularity
Telegraph.co.uk, 12th August 2009
More and more people undergo weight-loss procedures. Within the last year only the numbers have risen by more than a half.
Between May 2008 and April 2009 there the health services carried out 52% more weight-loss surgeries than previous year. Most of the weigh-loss surgery patients are women.
Rising popularity of such procedures is due to its efficacy but also due to TV stars admitting undergoing weight-loss surgery.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in a publication from 2006 states that patients with BMI of 50 can be considered for weight-loss procedure. Numerous researches show that such operations can significantly improve patients’ health issues caused by obesity.
Worryingly, one-forth of the British population is overweight with the BMI of 30. BMI between 18 to 25 is considered normal, 25 to 30 – overweight, 30 – obese and over 40 – morbidly obese. As doctors highlight, the weigh-loss surgery is only the beginning of a new lifestyle.
Even though women are majority of weight-loss surgery procedures, they are not more likely to be obese than men. “But they are more likely to go to their doctor and get these things sorted out. This is a long seen phenomenon”, said Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum.
“Men are much more inclined to shrug and say so be it, and also to refuse to believe that they will develop conditions like Type 2 diabetes”, he added.
Over two million British suffer from diabetes and the numbers will grow because of our lifestyle and growing obesity.
