Weight loss surgery for children
Whether children should be subjected to gastric bypass surgery is a hot topic of debate – there are risks, it implies that it is OK to be fat and then use obesity surgery to lose weight, and no one has fully studied the long-term implications of obesity surgery among young people.
Despite all this, the weight loss surgery among minor has tripled from 2000 to 2003 (the last year for which data is available) and it would be no surprise that it has continued to climb during last three years as well. Scientists at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center crunched the numbers.
Obesity is a problem not just among American adults but among children as well. A separate study has found that childhood obesity is also contributing to early puberty, in some cases a girl in fourth grade could reach puberty if she is obese.
While diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes are considered to be the most effective ways to lose weight, bariatric surgery is the only alternative for people who are so overweight that normal weight loss techniques will not work for them to lose massive amounts of weight.
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