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.”
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