I believe that surgery should not be a cure for obesity. The simple truth is that it is not healthy. If you change the brain's reaction to obesity, and not the factors that lead to it, you are bound to end up with the same situation. I also agree with the notion that it is not a good idea to assume that the surgery is safe in the long term. The fact that America is more focused on the solution to a problem, not the prevention is first of all a statement of greed, but also a sad state of affairs. It costs so much money to have these surgeries. I watched a program the other day that talked about how much obesity costs America as a whole. The amount is ridiculous!!!! To spend even more on surgery is a proposterous idea that I deem to be repulsive.
Obesity is a disease. It will not be cured through doctors in lab coats yielding surgical knives. Obesity is caused by many factors, some may blame it on family history, while others may blame it on environmental factors, especially in minority communities. The last time I checked, the fast-food restaurants within five mile radii of each other are still in these communities instead of healthier alternatives. I think we should be worried about implanting healthier restauraunts into minority communitites before we result to surgery. Plus, odds are even after the insurance does or doesn't pay for the many dollars that actually go into the surgery, and the obese person is indeed "under the knife", it will not change the mentality that has been rooted within. Unlike an amount of pounds, poor eating habits and lack of a good diet are not as easily reversed .
Surgery is definitely not a cure for obesity. Everyone's out looking for a quick fix to their problem and obesity is just another example of the trend. It's sad and scary that people are turning to psychosurgery in order to fix their psychological problems. People who are obese need to look into getting long term treatment in psychotherapy, tapping and getting to the roots of their problems. Surgery just seems like an extreme that people should not go into when trying to tackle obesity. When doctors tamper with a persons brain they could be liable to cause major damage that is irreversible. People need to start learning and promoting prevention instead of letting the epidemic of obesity to occur and then just creating unsafe and unproven solutions.
Surgery is not a cure for obesity, considering that there are many different psychological and emotional factors that causes obesity. Obesity can only be controlled by the person who is obese, by developing better eating habits or increasing levels of exercise. There are many ways obesity can be treated, surgery is just not one of them.
If psychiatrists and medical ethicists say, that doctors still do not know much about the circuits they are tampering with, and results are unpredicatable, this should be a red flag and warning sign to people contemplating surgery. People who are in desperate need of surgery are even denied due to the health risks and things that could go wrong as a result of these surgeries. They can make the difference between life and death.
Although I am strongly against surgery for obesity, I do believe it is essential when the person is so obese that their life is at stake. -Lorina Kegler
I don't think surgery is a cure for obesity because there are many ways to control your weight. People who are obese use surgery as a way to get out of eating healthy and exercising when in fact the surgery isn't making them any healthier than they are. It may be different for those people who have their lives at stake and need the surgery to survive but for most people they are just lazy. Exercise and healthy eating are which cause people to live well and the fact is that Americans are lazy. We try to come up with solutions to fix the problem when we need to find a way to prevent obesity from happening, maybe by not having fast food restaurants on every other block and heaving healthier alternatives for people. People need to focus more on how to prevent a problem from happening rather than letting it happen and finding solutions later. -Adia Brady
I believe that surgery is a cure for obesity, however it should be used as a last resort. There is no such thing as a "victim of obesity," simply because these people bring this unhealthy lifestyle upon themselves. When overweight people decide that they have exhausted all other options of weight loss, or are simply lazy, they have the right to resort to surgery. Patients are usually aware that the risks are very high, like the 20% complications rate for gastric bypass surgery. Therefore, as unfair and dangerous surgery may be, it is still a cure for obesity.
After reading all of the comments from my fellow peers, I can do nothing but simply say you have to put yourself in the shoes of an obese person in America. Constantly being told you are unhealthy,your weight is a problem, and even sometimes that you're physically unattractive can cause someone to be depressed, and im most cases cause the obese individual to eat even more. Obesity is a problem, but why make those who are obeste seem more depressed about their weight by simply "looking out for" their health.
Just like any other insecurity, obesity can cause an individual unhappiness and discomfort. I wouldn't necessarilly say surgery is a cure, it is more of a second chance. For the children whose parents fed them several meals and grew up obese, surgery can lead them to that gateway of a "healthier" life. Surgery should completely be an option for obese people. If Lil' Kim can make her boobs bigger just because she wants to, or The Jackson Family get a nose job because they didn't like how big their noses are, why can't someone grossly overweight alter their "problem?"
Surgery should not be used as a cure for people suffering from obesity to take the easy way out of losing weight. Surgery is simply an alternative, not a solution, and should not be used as a full blown cure. Surgery should only be used to fix or alter something that that physically is not under one's control. Personal weight, however, is under control of the patient, and therefore should be no doctor's responsibility to 'cure'. Losing weight is not just something that can happen overnight, but the process is an entire lifestyle change. If people are simply offered this easy alternative, who is to say that they won't just become obese again, just because surgery is readily available. People suffering from obesity should 'learn their lesson' by being forced to lose the excess weight they let themselves gain on their own in order to truly understand the severity of their condition.
Surgery is definately not a cure for obesity. It is simply an alternative excuse for those who dont want to exercise to lose weight. Surgery is irrelevant for those who are obese because they eat fast food everyday and love junk food. I agree with Ayrica's argument that obesity is a problem and obese people are likely to be depressed, which is true but I dont fully agree with her position, due to the fact that people arent forced to eat and they can say no. If the person had a dissability which enabled them to be able to exercise daily and was unable to manage their weight, then yes I would be sympathetic to their situation. Oppose to someone who's lazy and won't take the responsibility for being obese and in return they want surgery.
I don't agree with the idea of surgery for people with obesity. I don't agree with surgery for several reasons, but most importantly, I don't agree with surgery to cure obesity because it simply is not healthy. Having surgery to cure obesity can cause many life threatening effects such as a heart attack or even death. I believe too many people use surgery to cure obesity as their first and only choice to get healthy. I believe that eating right and living a healthy life should be your first choice of curing obesity. I feel that people today in the generation want to take the easy way out instead of doing the hard work to achieve a goal such as a healthy life.
Obesity is a sign of mistake. The people who are obese carelessly don't workout enough and don't keep their body in a healthy condition. Obesity usually occurs when you have a higher amount of fat than your muscle mass. Obesity is a serious health issue and should be handled quickly. But I think surgery is just a lazy way of losing your fat. Obesity should be lost by setting a healthy diet and having a daily workout. Surgery is the easy way out of it, working off your fat is the best way to handle your situation.
With so many other safer options, I don't think surgery is a cure for Obesity. Yes fast food purveyors not properly warning their consumers what effects fast food has on the human body is adding to the growing rate of obesity, but I believe that each person needs to take responsibility for their own weight. Surgery is percieved to be the quick and easy way to lose weight but the riskes assosiated with surgery are still not fully comprehensible. Plus, any procedure from the lap band to brain operations only change the person's weight, not the mind set of having a health diet and exercising to stay in shape. The true solution is in a proper diet and exercise because it allows peoples body's to properly adjust to the new weight and shows them how to maintaine a healthy life style.
I for one would be hesitant to promote surgery as a cure for obesity. First, obesity is not just a condition but a lifestyle. A series of habits and choices prelude becoming obese, so it follows that it is those behaviors that would require modification in order to truly cure obesity, anything less, including surgery, would merely serve a temporary fix, if even that. Secondly, whenever I ponder a potential solution to a problem, I’m always careful to consider the risks implicit in that solution. I mean, is losing weight worth risking brain surgery. Acknowledging that obesity can indeed be lethal, it still can’t possibly kill me any faster than a botched, highly-invasive, experimental surgical procedure.
I do not believe that brain surgery should be used as a cure for people suffering from obesity who have total control over fixing their situation; it should not become a quick fix because people will quickly abuse it. However I do believe that brain surgery should be used as a necessary alternative for those who have chronic conditions or have exhausted all other potential solutions to their physical state. Take gastric bypass patients for instance, they use the surgery as a last solution because they have no other options, but with their decision to go under the knife, comes repercussions; they have to change their whole lifestyle. They have to eat much smaller, healthier portions for the rest of their life because their stomachs are smaller.
These same conditions do not follow those who have brain surgery, and that is why I believe people will come to abuse it if easily offered. Becoming healthy comes with changing your entire lifestyle. If we allow people to rely on the surgery it will become like an oil tune-up for the obese. If you are not grossly obese, or do not have a chronic condition hindering your goal, then I do not believe the surgery should be available because you still have other means of losing the weight available to you. This Surgery should only be used to fix something that is not under one's control to alter.
I don't think that surgery should be a cure for obesity due to the obvious health risks. Having surgery is only dealing with the physical aspect but there are other factors that conclude with being obese such as the emotional aspect. The safest and more logical way of curing obesity is to just create and maintain a balanced diet and regular excersise. Surgery is taking the easy way out and I don't think that it should be used as an alternative considering all the complications that are brought about. It doesn't solve the emotional problems that are brought upon by obesity. Although the unhealthy food that is produced by the numerous fast food purveyors may be tempting it is necessary that one is able to maintain a healthy diet which would lead to the decrease of obesity.
I believe surgery can not completely cure obesity. However surgery, in certain cases, can be used as a last resort in life threatening situations, when it is extremely necessary for the person to lose the extra weight. It comes along with many risk, would be considered taking the easy way out and is not a solution to the problem but when it gets extremely out of control there should be an option for a quick fix. Although the logical solution would be to change your diet and exercise daily. Even if one gets surgery on their brain to “fix” their obesity issues, I do not believe their obesity problem is truly over. They still need to exercise, if they do not maintain the proper balanced diet then they can become obese again. People should be aware of the risk they are taking when they eat the food the fast food purveyors are supplying and they must take control of their eating habits, surgery can not be the cure to obesity.
I believe that surgery should not be a cure for obesity. The simple truth is that it is not healthy. If you change the brain's reaction to obesity, and not the factors that lead to it, you are bound to end up with the same situation. I also agree with the notion that it is not a good idea to assume that the surgery is safe in the long term. The fact that America is more focused on the solution to a problem, not the prevention is first of all a statement of greed, but also a sad state of affairs. It costs so much money to have these surgeries. I watched a program the other day that talked about how much obesity costs America as a whole. The amount is ridiculous!!!! To spend even more on surgery is a proposterous idea that I deem to be repulsive.
ReplyDelete-Talayne
Obesity is a disease. It will not be cured through doctors in lab coats yielding surgical knives. Obesity is caused by many factors, some may blame it on family history, while others may blame it on environmental factors, especially in minority communities. The last time I checked, the fast-food restaurants within five mile radii of each other are still in these communities instead of healthier alternatives. I think we should be worried about implanting healthier restauraunts into minority communitites before we result to surgery. Plus, odds are even after the insurance does or doesn't pay for the many dollars that actually go into the surgery, and the obese person is indeed "under the knife", it will not change the mentality that has been rooted within. Unlike an amount of pounds, poor eating habits and lack of a good diet are not as easily reversed .
ReplyDeleteSurgery is definitely not a cure for obesity. Everyone's out looking for a quick fix to their problem and obesity is just another example of the trend. It's sad and scary that people are turning to psychosurgery in order to fix their psychological problems. People who are obese need to look into getting long term treatment in psychotherapy, tapping and getting to the roots of their problems. Surgery just seems like an extreme that people should not go into when trying to tackle obesity. When doctors tamper with a persons brain they could be liable to cause major damage that is irreversible. People need to start learning and promoting prevention instead of letting the epidemic of obesity to occur and then just creating unsafe and unproven solutions.
ReplyDeleteSurgery is not a cure for obesity, considering that there are many different psychological and emotional factors that causes obesity. Obesity can only be controlled by the person who is obese, by developing better eating habits or increasing levels of exercise. There are many ways obesity can be treated, surgery is just not one of them.
ReplyDeleteIf psychiatrists and medical ethicists say, that doctors still do not know much about the circuits they are tampering with, and results are unpredicatable, this should be a red flag and warning sign to people contemplating surgery. People who are in desperate need of surgery are even denied due to the health risks and things that could go wrong as a result of these surgeries. They can make the difference between life and death.
Although I am strongly against surgery for obesity, I do believe it is essential when the person is so obese that their life is at stake.
-Lorina Kegler
I don't think surgery is a cure for obesity because there are many ways to control your weight. People who are obese use surgery as a way to get out of eating healthy and exercising when in fact the surgery isn't making them any healthier than they are. It may be different for those people who have their lives at stake and need the surgery to survive but for most people they are just lazy. Exercise and healthy eating are which cause people to live well and the fact is that Americans are lazy. We try to come up with solutions to fix the problem when we need to find a way to prevent obesity from happening, maybe by not having fast food restaurants on every other block and heaving healthier alternatives for people. People need to focus more on how to prevent a problem from happening rather than letting it happen and finding solutions later.
ReplyDelete-Adia Brady
I believe that surgery is a cure for obesity, however it should be used as a last resort. There is no such thing as a "victim of obesity," simply because these people bring this unhealthy lifestyle upon themselves. When overweight people decide that they have exhausted all other options of weight loss, or are simply lazy, they have the right to resort to surgery. Patients are usually aware that the risks are very high, like the 20% complications rate for gastric bypass surgery. Therefore, as unfair and dangerous surgery may be, it is still a cure for obesity.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading all of the comments from my fellow peers, I can do nothing but simply say you have to put yourself in the shoes of an obese person in America. Constantly being told you are unhealthy,your weight is a problem, and even sometimes that you're physically unattractive can cause someone to be depressed, and im most cases cause the obese individual to eat even more. Obesity is a problem, but why make those who are obeste seem more depressed about their weight by simply "looking out for" their health.
ReplyDeleteJust like any other insecurity, obesity can cause an individual unhappiness and discomfort. I wouldn't necessarilly say surgery is a cure, it is more of a second chance. For the children whose parents fed them several meals and grew up obese, surgery can lead them to that gateway of a "healthier" life. Surgery should completely be an option for obese people. If Lil' Kim can make her boobs bigger just because she wants to, or The Jackson Family get a nose job because they didn't like how big their noses are, why can't someone grossly overweight alter their "problem?"
-Ayrica Sawyer
Surgery should not be used as a cure for people suffering from obesity to take the easy way out of losing weight. Surgery is simply an alternative, not a solution, and should not be used as a full blown cure. Surgery should only be used to fix or alter something that that physically is not under one's control. Personal weight, however, is under control of the patient, and therefore should be no doctor's responsibility to 'cure'. Losing weight is not just something that can happen overnight, but the process is an entire lifestyle change. If people are simply offered this easy alternative, who is to say that they won't just become obese again, just because surgery is readily available. People suffering from obesity should 'learn their lesson' by being forced to lose the excess weight they let themselves gain on their own in order to truly understand the severity of their condition.
ReplyDeleteSurgery is definately not a cure for obesity. It is simply an alternative excuse for those who dont want to exercise to lose weight. Surgery is irrelevant for those who are obese because they eat fast food everyday and love junk food.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ayrica's argument that obesity is a problem and obese people are likely to be depressed, which is true but I dont fully agree with her position, due to the fact that people arent forced to eat and they can say no. If the person had a dissability which enabled them to be able to exercise daily and was unable to manage their weight, then yes I would be sympathetic to their situation. Oppose to someone who's lazy and won't take the responsibility for being obese and in return they want surgery.
I don't agree with the idea of surgery for people with obesity. I don't agree with surgery for several reasons, but most importantly, I don't agree with surgery to cure obesity because it simply is not healthy. Having surgery to cure obesity can cause many life threatening effects such as a heart attack or even death. I believe too many people use surgery to cure obesity as their first and only choice to get healthy. I believe that eating right and living a healthy life should be your first choice of curing obesity. I feel that people today in the generation want to take the easy way out instead of doing the hard work to achieve a goal such as a healthy life.
ReplyDeleteObesity is a sign of mistake. The people who are obese carelessly don't workout enough and don't keep their body in a healthy condition. Obesity usually occurs when you have a higher amount of fat than your muscle mass. Obesity is a serious health issue and should be handled quickly. But I think surgery is just a lazy way of losing your fat. Obesity should be lost by setting a healthy diet and having a daily workout. Surgery is the easy way out of it, working off your fat is the best way to handle your situation.
ReplyDelete-Tara Harris.
With so many other safer options, I don't think surgery is a cure for Obesity. Yes fast food purveyors not properly warning their consumers what effects fast food has on the human body is adding to the growing rate of obesity, but I believe that each person needs to take responsibility for their own weight. Surgery is percieved to be the quick and easy way to lose weight but the riskes assosiated with surgery are still not fully comprehensible. Plus, any procedure from the lap band to brain operations only change the person's weight, not the mind set of having a health diet and exercising to stay in shape. The true solution is in a proper diet and exercise because it allows peoples body's to properly adjust to the new weight and shows them how to maintaine a healthy life style.
ReplyDeleteI for one would be hesitant to promote surgery as a cure for obesity. First, obesity is not just a condition but a lifestyle. A series of habits and choices prelude becoming obese, so it follows that it is those behaviors that would require modification in order to truly cure obesity, anything less, including surgery, would merely serve a temporary fix, if even that. Secondly, whenever I ponder a potential solution to a problem, I’m always careful to consider the risks implicit in that solution. I mean, is losing weight worth risking brain surgery. Acknowledging that obesity can indeed be lethal, it still can’t possibly kill me any faster than a botched, highly-invasive, experimental surgical procedure.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that brain surgery should be used as a cure for people suffering from obesity who have total control over fixing their situation; it should not become a quick fix because people will quickly abuse it. However I do believe that brain surgery should be used as a necessary alternative for those who have chronic conditions or have exhausted all other potential solutions to their physical state. Take gastric bypass patients for instance, they use the surgery as a last solution because they have no other options, but with their decision to go under the knife, comes repercussions; they have to change their whole lifestyle. They have to eat much smaller, healthier portions for the rest of their life because their stomachs are smaller.
ReplyDeleteThese same conditions do not follow those who have brain surgery, and that is why I believe people will come to abuse it if easily offered. Becoming healthy comes with changing your entire lifestyle. If we allow people to rely on the surgery it will become like an oil tune-up for the obese. If you are not grossly obese, or do not have a chronic condition hindering your goal, then I do not believe the surgery should be available because you still have other means of losing the weight available to you. This Surgery should only be used to fix something that is not under one's control to alter.
-Joseph Fiddmont
I don't think that surgery should be a cure for obesity due to the obvious health risks. Having surgery is only dealing with the physical aspect but there are other factors that conclude with being obese such as the emotional aspect. The safest and more logical way of curing obesity is to just create and maintain a balanced diet and regular excersise. Surgery is taking the easy way out and I don't think that it should be used as an alternative considering all the complications that are brought about. It doesn't solve the emotional problems that are brought upon by obesity. Although the unhealthy food that is produced by the numerous fast food purveyors may be tempting it is necessary that one is able to maintain a healthy diet which would lead to the decrease of obesity.
ReplyDelete-Re'Nada Smith
I believe surgery can not completely cure obesity. However surgery, in certain cases, can be used as a last resort in life threatening situations, when it is extremely necessary for the person to lose the extra weight. It comes along with many risk, would be considered taking the easy way out and is not a solution to the problem but when it gets extremely out of control there should be an option for a quick fix. Although the logical solution would be to change your diet and exercise daily. Even if one gets surgery on their brain to “fix” their obesity issues, I do not believe their obesity problem is truly over. They still need to exercise, if they do not maintain the proper balanced diet then they can become obese again. People should be aware of the risk they are taking when they eat the food the fast food purveyors are supplying and they must take control of their eating habits, surgery can not be the cure to obesity.
ReplyDelete-Blake Le Dent