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Thats pretty rude of this older brother. I am surprised your response was not one of anger and retaliation.

Obese is never cool but cool kids always drink and smoke.

I think that there is a lot of in built stigma and prejudice against fat people in our community. They are perceived as being lazy and lacking will power. These perceptions prevent funding of effective solutions for obesity. We do know that bariatric surgery is the only evidence based...

Still involves blood and gore.

Surgery is pretty barbaric

So at the moment if there is tax payer funding for diseases and illness related to grog addiction, drug addiction, tobacco addiction, high speed driving addiction, why discriminate against food addiction? Especially when food addiction is a larger group than any of the other addictions.

So maybe we should turn away all smokers and drinkers from hospitals, medical clinics, close the drug/alcohol wards and psychiatric wards - let them all go to drug/alcohol nirvana?

But our tax dollars do fund self inflicted tobacco and alcohol damage. Our hospitals and doctors are kept busy dealing with all the sequelae of smoking and alcohol addiction - lung cancers, liver cancers, emphysema, alcoholic brain damage, alcoholic liver damage, stomach ulcers.

Given that the public health system is already struggling to provide existing surgical services, hips, eyes, gallbladders, cancers, - what will happen if bariatric surgery is routinely offered in the public system? 10 year waiting lists? Separate hospitals just to do bariatric surgery? Increase...