Who's to blame for morbid obesity?

Morbid obesity not on equal opportunities action u2013% of body weight is illogical and immoral, according to the Royal College of Surgeons. If you submit a band or gastric bypass surgery depends on the lottery, "CPC", and I hope that the NHS are in line with the instructions given by NICE, while others are "Raising the Bar", which means that People are overweight (BMI over 40), weight gain is more serious means before the procedure.

It is unfair. Is it? Moral and ethical issues here are numerous and complex. Personally, I would like to use in a raffle of e-mails. The term refers to the injustice, but also other postcode lottery? It is not always flat and bike shops, rare in South Devon. What may be silly, but I try to, you can say "regional resistance" or "local flexibility" and the best. It is probably fair if each region for the same amount of money per person, doctors and managers, and funding decisions to local needs of the population, but it inevitably means that depends on what Masz% u2013 where you live, how many other things. In fact, what has David Stout NHS Primary Care Trust Network announced that Radio 4's Today show this morning.

Presenter lifted, John Humphreys, the question that someone can say that obese people who meet each other. "Why should the taxpayers pay for the people,% u2013 without treatment it something else?"

In response to many experts, of course, that the guidelines reflect the cost impact of working in obesity on the health of people. It is not good, it means that you manage to consumption, or to move. Only one out of three kilometers in order to successfully lose weight through surgical methods. You lose some of the stones, but can not overcome. Action, because they are terrible, only 5% of the rate of complications and the third work percentage risk of death.

What can we do? I have to admit that he was a fleeting thought at the beginning of the credit crisis, which means if the recession may find that all options were less and less money, we would all be happier had. That is not true. Inequality is not working and the poorest suffer the most. But it is true that the growth in our standard of living in the past 50 years we have become happier. Now they are more dissatisfied than three times richer. Epidemic of obesity and overweight in which quarter of British adults and many of them urgent surgery is one of the side effects runaway commercial success.

Simply not designed to be able to say, "I know that I like less" and to stop trying to get more. Proposal of the butter, that politicians and statisticians should begin to enjoy health and happiness that our actions do not succeed u2013% of GDP .