Gastric band surgery is an abomination! Cutting up your stomach and risking terrible health issues, even death, is the ultimate in alienation from the body and its natural beauty. But performing gastric banding on kids is beyond contemptible.
Among adults, there were 12,775 to 70,256 surgeries in the U.S. from 1998 to 2002, according to the monthly Archives of Surgery Journal. Recently, that number has increased to more than 120,000 a year.
In 2004 there were 350 gastric band surgeries performed on kids. Doctors have been hesitant to do the surgeries for more than one reason: for one, most stomach surgeries cut the stomach to make it operate as smaller pouch, which has unknown health risks to a developing child - the death rate among kids who do the surgery is around 1 in 50, which is twice the death rate than among adults who have bariatric surgery.
According to a federal government body, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 40% of all surgery patients develop complications within a mere six months! Further, this maiming costs an average of $29,000 !
Subjecting our kids to this kind of barbaric cruelty is astonishing. Heaven forbid we should take the vending machines and pizza bars out of school and invest the time and energy to teach our kids good eating habits. Play after school? Run around, chase a ball and scream with sheer exuberance?
Nonsense! Plop them in front of the TV or computer.
Simply unbelievable.
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