But I think that the trusts would be better off treating obesity or getting people to lose weight rather than introducing a blanket ban,

Each individual factor for weight gain is serious enough but put them all together and you can get a significant increase,

There really isn't an organ in the body that is safe from the effects of obesity - and the liver is a vital organ.

People who say obesity has been hyped are wrong.

Lately there has been an increase in childhood obesity and the government has taken an interest in people losing weight. Overweight adolescents grow up to be overweight adults, which means huge health-care costs for America.

That is significantly higher than most people expect when they think of obesity surgery. Patients are at higher risk for having bad things happen after surgery because of their advanced age or other conditions.