Now we’re mutilating pre-teens?
Watching Newsroom this morning, a story came on about a twelve-year-old whose mother agreed with her that WLS - the lap band - was a good idea. The child has already had liposuction and a tummy tuck (yeah, good to know it’s for health reasons). She lost “about sixty pounds, but has… regained about half of it” since the surgery. The mother’s verdict? She’s a “compulsive eater”. I also am a compulsive eater, being that I feel a compulsion to eat in order to, you know, live. I am also a compulsive breather. I wonder if they have a surgery for that?
The mother complained about how there was so much “red tape” to go through - doctors in the U.S. wanted the child to get psychological testing and sleep apnea testing, and there was “so much paperwork!” to go through. All very important things, the mother acknowledged - but they cost money. Unlike, apparently, the lap band surgery? Don’t worry though, she found a way around all those pesky precautions - she had the surgery done in Mexico.
Best quote of the clip? “This lap band will only let her eat so much, and then after that - it comes back up!” A miracle! Scientific breakthrough! No longer do kids need to get eating disorders the old-fashioned way - now you can become bulimic the healthy way!
There’s nothing up about it on the CNN website yet, but I googling around I did find this article about the lap band surgery being done on teens.
Edit: Here’s the video, and an article about the, what, atrocity? Idiocy? Madness? Whatever it is, it’s covered here. Hat-tip to Paul for finding the links.
Leave a Comment
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.
The criticisms of my students would serve as a good warning to visitors of Seeworthy: she talks too fast, she's too hard on us, she assigns too much work, and you have to be a dyke to get a good grade.
In other words, I'm a big, fat, queer, feminist meanie, and I am totally out to get you. Graaagh!
wow, that is sick and disgusting.
Pre-teens hell, did you hear about the leptin babies?
Hey, it’s a great idea… if you dose infants up so that they couldn’t store fat if their life depended on it, you won’t need to amputate their stomachs later on! Everyone wins.
I can’t wait until they start giving lap bands to babies.
How long before lap bands become mandatory for anyone deemed “too fat”, who wants to have a job, receive medical care, receive disability payments (for non-fat-related conditions, of course), or, hell, vote?
After all, if you refuse to exercise the “self control” necessary to have bulimia or anorexia the old fashioned way, how can you be trusted with something important like a job or voting?
I’m with you on the compulsive breather thing. I’m also a compulsive eye-blinker. As much as I try to out-stare my pet snakes, they just have an advantage with their lack of movable eyelids. Perhaps I should have my eyelids removed so that I am not engaging in horrific, unattractive, disgusting blinking?
There is of course such a thing as compulsive eating, it is caused or exacerbated by calorie/ food restriction, as the body fights to stop this happening, In other words, it is on the spectrum of bodily responses to induced anorexia/bulimia. A lot of people don’t get this and call it addiction to eating, also as nonsensical as you stated above. People simply refuse to join the dots here, calorie restriction causes,triggers, exacerbates disordered eating, full stop.