The Worst Diet in the World Part 2

Back in May, I wrote a post about how I think weight loss surgery is the worst diet in the world. 

Allergan the creaters of  "lap-band"  has been losing money on the procedure. They had previously removed another stomach band the "Easyband".  Allergen blamed the government (How convenient!) However it might have something to do with killing people.

Two doctors and the ad company who created the ads for 1(800) Get-Thin are being sued for wrongful death.

Tamara Walter died Dec. 26, three days after she had a Lap-Band device surgically implanted at an outpatient clinic at 9001 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills, which has used several names including Beverly Hills Surgery Center, according to the lawsuit. Walter, 52, is one of four patients to die in the days after Lap-Band procedures at clinics that are connected to the advertising campaign, according to lawsuits and coroner reports.

The deaths were apparently caused by a bad anesiologist and poor care, which is why if you are thinking about getting the surgery or any cosmetic surgery, anesthesia is no joke.

To me, these weight loss clinics that promote Weight loss surgery as something easy and simple feed off people's desparation in this fat hating world. They see fat people as less than human, to experiment on and make money off. 

Early this year Allergan the markers of the lap-band has been trying to distance themselves from (800) Get-thin.

And so Allergan ceo David Pyott, who was making the rounds yesterday to chat about a recent earnings report, is now scrambling to disassociate the company from the not-so-subtle message on the billboards that "Diets fail! The Lap-Band works!" To wit, he tells the paper "that isn't the wording I would use. We put patients' welfare and safety at the top, so I wouldn't support it."

Meanwhile National Geographic has postively covered Health at Every Size.

Bacon (Linda Bacon) writes, "What no one needs, at any size, is to feel bad about how they look or what they weigh. People who live by Health at Every Size ideas tend to feel better about themselves, and that can lead to better health, too, with less stress and disordered eating."

Hmmm... on one hand, death and the other hand enjoying movement and normal eating.

I see the problem, there is no money to be made with the second choice.