Turia still pushing for Govt funded stomach stapling

I find all your comments incredibly insensitive. I am a diabetic and yes I am obese. I am classed as "insulin resistant" which means that I need ever increasing doses of Insulin to keep my blood sugar under control. One of the side effects of insulin is that it increases your appetite, so it is a never ending cycle. Prof Stubbs from the Wakefield Obesity Clinic has done a lot of research into insulin resistance and it was believed that obesity leads to insulin resistance but new studies indicate that the truth might be that insulin resistance leads to obesity. People that have the gastric by-pass surgery (the fobi pouch) that is done by Prof Stubbs are unable to cheat and go back to their old eating habits as your stomach actually rejects certain foods and will dump them. Diabetes is a serious disease that affects your entire body. Complications in circulation mean that you loose feeling in your feet. Unless you check them carefully you end up getting cuts and sores that you are not aware of (because you cant feel them) and these actually become gangrenous which causes a lot of diabetics to become amputees. Diabetes affects your eyes. As well as protein building up on your eyes blood vessels can actually grow in your eyes and blindness is also an outcome that diabetics have to look forward to. Do you want me to talk to you about how diabetes affects your kidneys and how my future without a gastric by-pass operation is as an obese, blind, amputee on dialysis 8 hours a day while I wait for a kidney transplant. You want to talk about how much that is going to cost the taxpayer. Whats the best alternative ... the Government to pay $35,000 to give me treatment that could CURE my diabetes and get me back into the workforce and paying taxes or for me to end up costing them $100,000 every ten years until I die? Next time you want to spew off with your anti fatty bigotry at least educate yourself on some of the facts first.

The fatties should exercise if they want to lose the weight and stop expecting everyone else to pay for their eating habits.

sterilization should be encouraged for welfare dependence so the state doesn't have to pay for on going litter generation, for some babies are a form of income generation

I object to having the government pay for or subsidise gastric surgery like this. The operation itself costs thousands of dollars itself and it only a last resort for those who desperately need to lose weight to live. While the surgery only reduces the capacity of the stomach it does not stop the individual from eating the same rubbish that possibly made them obese and unfit in the first place. Many people, particularly those from low socio-economic backgrounds, don't realise that a lifestyle change (diet and exercise in tandem) is highly necessary for this procedure to have long term health benefits as well as cosmetic benefits. The bottom line is that hundreds of people who opted for this surgery could have saved thousands of dollars simply by conventional weight loss methods.

I will support subsidized stomach stapling if Tariana will support incentivized sterilization.

To the anti-Fat-Brigade
Cmon people, there are alot of fat people who do not sit on bums or eat fat foods all the time. A bit of over generalising going on here. Some of you need to get rid of the holier than thou attitude!!!

I think the better solution is exercise and diet control. If after all that stomach staplking if they are going to stick to the diets they have now, it will be of no consequence to have gone through the expense and pain.

Is this the site to have racial vengeance and get your 2 cents worth of fame? tallica, your not from the South Island are you? coz if your not you should move there and join the National Front, even better, you could get a job with the N.Z.Police and have our children held down at gun point. What is your problem? Maori or fat people?.......biggot

Fair enough lightseed ya got me on that 1.
Sorry to Turia

Sounds like a great business venture to line 'doctors' pockets at Tax Payers expense, while distracting them from doing their real job of helping people with genuine medical problems.


End Corporate Welfare.