| The problem of obesity has been with us since the | | | | many items of food, not least that of sugar syrup and |
| dawn of time and for many sufferers the condition is | | | | sugar. In turn this means that we are now consuming a |
| the result of genetic or medical problems. At present, | | | | lot more than we used to.4. The past twenty five |
| however, the alarming growth in the rate of obesity is | | | | years have seen big changes in working practices |
| very much a man-made problem, assisted in part | | | | with significantly fewer people employed today in |
| perhaps by the availability, and popularity, of the gastric | | | | manual work and with more and more of us sitting |
| bypass.Advances in surgery, not least the introduction | | | | back and letting machines do the work which we used |
| of laparoscopic procedures, have made the gastric | | | | to do or sitting all day behind a desk or at a |
| bypass a far easier and more acceptable solution to | | | | computer.5. Marketing has become very sophisticated, |
| the problem of obesity. In addition, the profile of the | | | | if not subliminal, and this is especially true in the area of |
| gastric bypass has been raised very much in recent | | | | convenience and fast foods. Additionally, many |
| years helped along in no small way by the number of | | | | restrictions were removed on advertisements aimed |
| household names picking this form of weight loss.The | | | | at children during the Reagan administration and many |
| list of well known personalities taking this route is long | | | | of these dealt with such things as convenience foods |
| and includes the best selling author Anne Rice, the | | | | and sweets.6. Perhaps strangest of all is the effect |
| musician and harmonica virtuoso John Popper, the | | | | that the craze for exercise and diet has had on the |
| footballer Diego Maradona and the music promoter | | | | increase in obesity. As a society we have become |
| and TV personality Sharon Osbourne to name just a | | | | obsessed with dieting and many people diet as often |
| few.But just why is obesity growing and is it really a | | | | as they change their underwear. However it's a fact |
| problem of our own making?While there was a small | | | | that virtually all diets fail and, following a diet, it is not |
| rise in the rate of obesity in the years following the | | | | uncommon for your weight to rise to a level even |
| Second World War, the past twenty five years have | | | | higher than it was before the diet. This pattern of rising |
| seen a significant growth in obesity, especially in the | | | | and falling weight over time many times results in a |
| US. The exact reason for this is unknown and there is | | | | gradual increase in weight towards obesity.Each of the |
| reasonably wide disagreement on the cause, but here | | | | factors observed here not only add to the rise in |
| are just a few reasons over which there is general | | | | obesity but is also plainly made-made.Certainly gastric |
| agreement.1. Notwithstanding the current talk about oil | | | | bypass provides one solution. All the same, even |
| prices, motoring is no longer a luxury and the two car | | | | though the procedure is a lot easier than it used to be |
| family is becoming commonplace. Today we don't | | | | and is growing in popularity, it is still far from a pleasant |
| think twice about getting into the car for even the | | | | experience and is certainly not risk free.For those |
| shortest of journeys and many of us would not even | | | | people who are suffering from obesity today gastric |
| contemplate walking to the corner shop.2. We have | | | | bypass constitutes an excellent solution to their |
| become a nation of two income households and this | | | | problem. For our children and grandchildren however |
| means that people are doing far less cooking at home. | | | | maybe the answer is to be found in preventing obesity |
| The number of people enjoying restaurant meals or | | | | and not sitting back and waiting for the problem to |
| opting for fast food take out or home delivery meals | | | | present itself before resorting to gastric bypass |
| has risen significantly in recent years.3. A number of | | | | surgery.For more information about gastric bypass |
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| years have significantly lowered the relative cost of | | | | |