Is Surgery sometimes the only answer to fighting health problems associated with obesity or lack of fitness (or both)?
This is under contest. Some individuals feel it’s the only way. But the success rate of thousands of people who have combined a low fat nutritional program and daily exercise suggests that surgery, albeit one way, is not the only way to deal with obesity. A figure about the success rate of non surgical treatment of obesity i.e. food restriction plus exercise is often quoted as only a five percent success rate of keeping the weight off. This statistic is probably as old as some of my ideas about Weight Loss Surgery were. We do know from a survey taken in the early 1990’s that in the so called successful five percent, 95 percent exercised on a daily basis.
