Dealing with Diabetes2 and remembering Goldi Community Group
A support group for individuals with Type2 diabetes. Encouragement, empathy, advice, and personal experiences from members dealing with the illness. A friendly environment with compassion and support as our main objective.
Pile on the pounds to go under the Knife
Join the band and have one fitted! I don't know how long these operations have been available but no one seems to the long term results
Maybe I should join the club and start a junk eating regime to qualify?
At 20 lb a month weight gain I could be a candidate by midsummer
Obese patients are being "effectively encouraged" to pile on the pounds to qualify for weight-loss operations on the NHS, the Royal College of Surgeons warns today.
The college claims lives are being put at risk as some health trusts require patients to reach higher body mass index (BMI) levels than others before they receive surgical treatments.
The postcode lottery means that access to NHS weight-loss surgery is "inconsistent, unethical and completely dependent on geographical location", according to the college.
Last year 4,300 operations to reduce body weight were carried out on the NHS, but as many as 1 million people could meet the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) criteria for being classed as having severe obesity.
Bariatric, or weight-loss, surgery is carried out after diets, drugs and lifestyle-altering interventions are seen to have failed. It is not generally recommended for children or young people.
"Constraints on NHS funding mean that in some areas NHS decision-makers are opting to ignore professional guidelines and are denying patients' access to surgery," the college maintains. "In others, patients who already meet the [Nice] criteria are forced to wait until either they become more obese or develop life-threatening illness like diabetes or stroke."
Join the band and have one fitted! I don't know how long these operations have been available but no one seems to the long term results
Maybe I should join the club and start a junk eating regime to qualify?
At 20 lb a month weight gain I could be a candidate by midsummer
Obese patients are being "effectively encouraged" to pile on the pounds to qualify for weight-loss operations on the NHS, the Royal College of Surgeons warns today.
The college claims lives are being put at risk as some health trusts require patients to reach higher body mass index (BMI) levels than others before they receive surgical treatments.
The postcode lottery means that access to NHS weight-loss surgery is "inconsistent, unethical and completely dependent on geographical location", according to the college.
Last year 4,300 operations to reduce body weight were carried out on the NHS, but as many as 1 million people could meet the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) criteria for being classed as having severe obesity.
Bariatric, or weight-loss, surgery is carried out after diets, drugs and lifestyle-altering interventions are seen to have failed. It is not generally recommended for children or young people.
"Constraints on NHS funding mean that in some areas NHS decision-makers are opting to ignore professional guidelines and are denying patients' access to surgery," the college maintains. "In others, patients who already meet the [Nice] criteria are forced to wait until either they become more obese or develop life-threatening illness like diabetes or stroke."
and have the stomach cut out.
And maybe a little lipo suction around the bum while they're at it!
Liposuction would be great LOL.. Hey! Where is the picture of your cat? I miss him!
and like lions
But always remember
A lion wont cheat on its wife...A Tiger Wood!!
I have a cat. She is three years old now. I got her from a rescue. She was ooohhh.. such a cute kitten. Her mother was a regular housecat and her father was a black maynx. She has six toes on each foot...called polydactyl, as you probably know. She has no tail, just a stub, like the maynx. Otherwise, she looks like a seal point siamese. Now where did that come from? Somewhere back in the line I guess. We call her Willow. When I got her, I was going to Toronto to visit my mom and sister. They were looking for a kitten and had bad experience with a barn cat they got. I think a lot of it was that they had no experience with kittens or cats before.So, I took her brother too and brought him to them. Now, he was a black and white color, with EIGHT toes on each foot, nubby tail. All the other kittens looked like their mother, normal toes and long tails. He walks like a lion, so they called him Simba. LOL
Just a little tidbit :)