Obese people are gorging to qualify for gastric bypass

Kevin

Uncategorized

January 26, 2007

Perverse results of changing the qualifying BMI from 35 to 45:

Obese people are gorging themselves in order to qualify for stomach-stapling surgery on the NHS.

Overweight patients are being forced to pile on the pounds after trusts raised the level of obesity they must reach to get the treatment, a patients’ association claimed yesterday . . .

. . . Yesterday one man who has been denied treatment said: “Instead of surgery and rehabilitation my only option is McDonalds and ice cream.”