Weight loss surgery in demand over diet pills

September 20, 2005

Research conducted in Melbourne analyzed surgery as the best option available today to treat obesity. Professor O’Brian said, obesity is a health issue which is greatly increasing today and surgery involving an adjustable band around the stomach produces excellent weight loss results.

But people who are not privately insured or who can’t pay for surgery are finding it difficult to access the treatment. Researchers feel an Obesity discrimination which is a depressive trend. Though the surgery option is also possible with Medicare, public hospitals are not keen on the surgery as they fail to recognize its economic and health benefits. Health experts are concerned about the growing obesity epidemic as they say, it is a major problem and weight loss is achievable at the cost of a surgery and that’s the cost public hospitals are not wiling to bear.

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