The number of people being admitted to hospital for obesity in the UK has risen dramatically, by 60 per cent in the last year alone, in part due to surgery now being widely available on the National Health Service (NHS).
There were 8,085 admissions for obesity in 2008/09 in England, up from 5,056 the previous year, and from 1,746 in 2003/04.
These statistics include treatment for breathing problems, type 2 diabetes, circulation or organ failure, or heart disease and also surgical procedures such as stomach stapling.
Tim Straughan, head of the NHS Information Centre, said: “The large increase in admissions for obesity reflects the growing impact that obesity has on the health of our nation as well as the demands it is placing on limited NHS resources.
“However, it also reflects the fact that overweight people are resorting to treatments such as bariatric surgery to tackle their health problems.” Bariatric surgery involves banding part of the stomach to reduce its size or even removing a portion on it.
Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum said society was after a “quick fix” for obesity. “We no longer try to use diet and exercise as a way of treating this problem. The increasing demand for bariatric surgery is going to put a lot of pressure on the NHS.”
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The only way you can manage obesity is throught Proper Diet and lots of exercise. The human body is designed for work so we should always get some form of physical exercise to stay fit.
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In the long run diets do not work. What works is to look at why people are overeating. In my professional experience, eating too much is a way of coping with ‘life’ and temporarily distracts the individual from uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Other people may choose to take drugs, drink too much, gamble, use the internet excessively, or be a ‘workaholic’, it all stems from a need to anesthetise the individual from their ‘normality’. What really works is to get to the ‘root cause’ of the behaviour, then it is possible to change it. Without a desire to change the behaviour, diets are only a short term fix.
Julie Mann Habitfixer.com