http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16981527/
NEW YORK - As the popularity of stomach surgery has skyrocketed among obese adults, a growing number of doctors are asking, “Why not children, too?”
For decades, the number of kids trying weight-loss surgery has been tiny. The operations themselves were risky, with a death rate of about 1 in 50. Children rarely got that fat, and when they did, pediatricians hesitated to put the developing bodies under the knife. Only 350 U.S. kids had such an operation in 2004, according to federal statistics.
Read the rest from the link above...pretty sad if you ask me. I don't think kids should be getting gastric bypass...and my question is, are they educating these children's parents about proper eating when they show up at these clinics wanting the surgery? What kind of impact does this have on these kids? Is it teaching them that you can go ahead and get fat if you have 25K for the surgery later on?
I'm still pondering the issue.