More Dangers of WLS

"... Weight Loss Surgery and diet support groups, 

message boards, forums and chat rooms, 

are often supported, 

hosted and/or moderated by weight loss, 

pharmacerutical and bariatric industry interests...

 

...The members-only groups are more vulnerable 

to manipulation, 

as these intimate groups 

are less publicly visible or accountable...

 

...In some instances, the hosts and moderators 

may be true converts who believe in what they are promoting 

and may or may not be even aware of their own biases; 

other times the moderators 

are marketing professionals...

 

...Not surprisingly, the focus for many of the bariatric sites 

are to keep prospective patients motivated 

and help them get insurance approval 

for bariatric surgeries. 

They sell false hope, 

and the exclusion of nonbelievers 

and contrary information 

leads to cult-like devotion 

among the members...

 

...The information at many of these online portals

is largely provided by the bariatric and weight loss companies 

and paint overly optimistic pictures 

of successes 

of whatever they’re selling and downplay risks. 

... just like the disease blogs 

that Dr. Oransky mentioned.”

- Sandy Szwarc in

Googling, Blogging and Flogging 

I remember getting kicked off an online forum for not towing the "party line".
One moderator even asked, "Do you think you're going to turn the whole bariatric community on it's head?"

Yes.
I thought so back then and I think so now.
WLS is not the "tool" it's cracked up to be.
It's surgery.
It screws up what nature did perfectly already.

The whole WLS system is based on the belief that without the "tool" of surgery
we'd be left to our own will
and since we're admitting that our will is weak by seeking surgical help
we need to turn over our lives to a system.
The system just happens to be a multi million (is it billion by now?)
industry that profits off of folks who have been convinced that there is no where else to turn.

Once we're surgically altered the system proceeds to convince us that the only suitable foods
are those de-natured, manufactured products made especially for the "bariatric community".
The very people who need real nourishment the most are being duped
into believing that industrial shakes and overly processed protein bars
are the only foods we should be eating,
cuz after all they're made for our "special needs".

Ugh.
It's such crap I can't even begin to tear it apart.
Well, I CAN  begin to tear it apart but right now I need to get back to work.
Like work work.

Class tonight.
Do I even have my slides ready??
Ah!!!

To be continued!!

*Lisa's Video Pick of the Day*
I can tell you from having been INSIDE a few cults in my lifetime
that the WLS Bariatric Community is very, very cultish.
How do you know you're involved in something cultish cult like or an outright cult?
If some, many or all of the following apply
you might be in a cult or something cultlike.
click here or click below