Gastric Bypass Surgery or Lap Band surgery in children?
I was watching an old rerun of Oprah just then and I had to pass it since I was getting so mad.
They were talking about giving the operation to children and the parents were saying that there kids need it, and they were talking to the kids about how it changed them and they were saying how they couldn’t keep two cheeseburgers with fries down anymore, they could only eat one with fries.
I swear to you I SCREAMED at my television.
It seemed so ridiculous to me that a parent would put there child through an invasive surgery to stop them from over eating rather then controlling what they ate.
I am slightly prejudiced on this because I am vegan but a healthy well balanced vegan lifestyle cuts out all saturated fats and trans fats out of your diet as well as processed sugars.
Eating a diet of fresh fruit, veg, grains, nuts, and seeds seems so much less drastic then surgery.
Even when asked about their eating habits now they were saying they just bought lower calorie foods.
So, that sounds just like a whole lot of processed foods rather then the fresh stuff.
Gosh, one of the kids put on 50 pounds in a month! How is that possible, yet they are advocating that the surgery helped them and that they tried all these diets…
It wasn’t diabetes since they were checked for all that, these kids just over ate all the wrong foods.
Am I the only one who thinks that this represents a serious problem in Western culture (I’m in Australia but I KNOW this is a problem in most Western countries)??
THANKS
I KNOW you can be overweight eating vegan, I said CAN be.
There is HEAPS of vegan junk food out there that’s why I noted the good ones.
It’s the mothers fault we have overweight children.
If they get off their butts and do some home cooking instead
of feeding the kids McDonalds we wouldnt have kids in this shape.
Shut the TV off get rid of the video games, and for God’s sake
let the kids go to the park and play and burn calories.
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September 24th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Then you should meet my overweight vegan daughter.
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September 24th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Yeah, i think it’s bad too. Teach your kids what to eat and how much! Plus your stomach stretches back out if you don’t change your eating habits.
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September 24th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
i have an aunt who will fix her children’s plates. she puts enough food on there that it could feed an army and they have to finish their plates. not allowed to get out of their seat until the plate is completely clean. both of her kids are very over weight her daughter is half my age and height and weighs more than i do. i am a 20 year old woman i am 5′4 and 125lbs. her son who is in his teens is around 6′0 but weighs nearly 300lbs. and to top it all off they meals like that every few hours. and by few i mean 4-5 hours!!! talk about unhealthy life style. that kinda surgery shouldn’t be used on children they should be taught how to eat properly. from an early age and still today i snack on salads or carrots. i eat meat with a veggie and a starch and try to avoid places like McDonald’s. i love fresh fruit and don’t eat alot of chips. but however i love sweets. i love veggies. esp. spinach!! i just don’t understand how parents could do this to their kids.
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September 24th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
I seen that episode and was just mortified. How do Parents get their kids so fat in the first place? I think it is neglect, if you seen an anorexic child they would certainly get reported by some school teacher/neighbour or whatever, but a fat child doesnt. It has the same health risks.
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September 24th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
It’s the mothers fault we have overweight children.
If they get off their butts and do some home cooking instead
of feeding the kids McDonalds we wouldnt have kids in this shape.
Shut the TV off get rid of the video games, and for God’s sake
let the kids go to the park and play and burn calories.
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