If Your Child Or Ward Had Bariatric Surgery

If your child/ward had bariatric surgery, he/she should have first failed at dieting:

If he/she failed at dieting by following an expert's advice, it is most likely that he/she failed because the diet he/she was given was flawed.

Expert's diets are flawed in one main way - they are too extreme. So extreme, that no one can follow them.

There are several different ways in which expert diets achieve their extremeness.

To understand them, you have to look to the physiology and starvation literature and recognize that the diet literature is corrupt.

If you want to gain an understanding of the problem, read my ebooks: Why Diets Fail: The Simple Mistake That Ruins Millions Of Lives and MASSematics ^tm: How To Get Rich By Not Dieting. Both are available here.

Bariatric surgery has its own set of reasons why it should not have been performed:

1.    If he/she failed at dieting and the diet was provided to him/her by an expert, he/she had no choice but to fail since the diet was, in all probability, flawed.

This means that he/she did not have a real opportunity to avoid the knife, since the diet he/she was given was destined to fail him/her.

His/her surgeon should have first made sure that he/she was on a possible diet program, instead of an impossible one.

Since he/she was not given a real opportunity to lose weight by dieting, his/her surgery was not indicated.

Therefore, it should never have been performed.

2.    Because you were not aware that his/her diet virtually guaranteed he/she would have surgery, you could not provide an informed consent.

A surgery performed without an informed consent, except in instances where consent is impossible (e.g., coma following a car accident), is a breach of medical ethics. It may constitute a battery (an unconsented harmful contact) or negligence.

He/she may be able to recover damages if he/she had been battered, the victim of medical negligence or unethical medical conduct.

3.    If he/she was not provided a diet to follow before your surgery, he/she should not have been surgerized.

If your child or ward was on a diet first and failed, he/she may have been injured by the:

• author
• endorser (expert who endorses another's weight loss program)
• publisher
• media outlet (promoting the book or weight loss program)
• media personality (touting the book or weight loss program)
• physician
• medical organization
• nutritionist
• dietitian
• medical center
• weight loss clinic
• commercial weight loss company
• pharmaceutical company
• trainer
• food company

If the diet:

• reduced his/her daily caloric intake by 500 - 1000 Calories per day or more
• advertised a 1 -2 pounds weight loss per week or more
• had him/her eating fewer Calories per day than his/her basal metabolic rate (BMR)
• claimed that to lose one pound per week he/she had to reduce his/her caloric intake by 500 Calories per day
• claimed that to lose two pounds per week you had to reduce his/her caloric intake by 1000 Calories per day
• reduced his/her daily caloric intake and advised him/her to exercise to burn 300 or more Calories per day
• reduced his/her caloric intake and informed him/her that you can add muscle by exercising
• claimed that one pound of muscle burns 35 or more Calories per day at rest
• had a food product associated with it (e.g., bars, supplements, meals)

If before your child's or ward's surgery, he/she was either not on a diet or failed on a diet, then the following may have injured him/her:

• his/her surgeon
• the hospital
• his/her referring physician