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Quote by: Trotsky  You're thoughts? What do you think is the best approach? Medical intervention such as gastric-band surgery/gastric bypass and drugs such as CB-1 antagonists, Lipase inhibitors and 5-HT reup inhibs or proper education regarding diet.
Obesity is getting seriously out of hand. The loss of productivity to the world economy is huge, the cost of state healthcare (such as the NHS) and private medical insurance is going through the roof, mostly being funded by non-obese people. The pressure obesity and obesity cause illnesses are putting state and private medical care under is becoming too much to deal with.
If you go down the route of medical intervention, what do you do about patient compliance (the biggest hurdle in all anti-obesity drugs going through clinical trials)? If you go through the education route, again what do you do about patient compliance? |
Why should obesity be tackled at all? If people want to consume more calories than they burn, that's their business. Now, for those who gain weight because of other issues, e.g. hypothyroidism or medications, then deal with those.