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Morbid Obesity: Why surgery?
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Why, when many people see someone disfigured by burns, their feeling is of horror and compassion, and when you see a morbidly obese can barely walk or flinch and even in some occasions generates jokes or jokes?

The process of healing and rehabilitation in these cases can be lengthy, painful in the burned and may sometimes not be fully successful, but always warranted, we perceive the efforts to achieve the physical and mental acts of heroic struggle against adversity in which involved the victim and those around him.

Ee Morbid obesity a chronic condition, progressive and irreversible, producing not only damage the skin if not virtually all body organs like heart, lungs, joints and many more, producing varying degrees of physical limitation, making life difficult marital and social, marriages often undone and lost jobs. Taunts and impertinent looks are a thing of every day, bulky bodies highlighted in the middle of a hedonistic society that accuses them of not having enough willpower to stop "swallowing" and thus lose weight and solve the problem, are seen as the very image of the excess without any will to stop a process that threatens their life, they are "guilty of failure" and if they have no willpower to stop eating unconsciously assume that neither should be willing to maintain discipline in the workplace or being respected in the affective domain.
Seeing no society in general and particularly morbidly obese themselves this condition as a serious illness, will continue without understanding the importance must be given to treatment and accept the possible consequences it may bring an operation or not.
Morbid obesity has a genetic component and a sedentary lifestyle and the abundance of hyper-caloric meals have made prevalent, once installed to acquire more than 50% excess of normal weight is very difficult to treat, in 95% of the time fail attempts to change eating habits or diets, only bariatric surgery demonstrated so far to be effective in the long run.

The morbidly obese patient is entitled to be treated and respected as any patient, fun and discriminated is a despicable attitude that we should banish once and for all in our society.
People suffering from this condition should not hesitate to find a good bariatric surgeon to guide them and help control this evil once and for all with dignity and thus regain their quality of life.

Surgery for them is not the last resort is the first, nor is it an easy way out is the most difficult and desirable. Surgery is something I can be proud to face adversity with courage and valor.