When will bariatric surgery be really supported?
There are more than600 million people affected by obesity worldwide. In France some 6.5 million people suffer from this disease of civilization. Whether through an increased sedentary lifestyle, a diet too rich, too industrialized, the addition of endocrine disruptors, GMOs or other atmospheric fallout, the extra pounds settle insidiously.
The alarm signal launched by the WHO (World Health Organization) recently, echoes within the population, public health organizations, the associative fabric.
It is clear that to fight against this global scourge, some common sense actions would be welcome, including that of holistic care forbariatric surgery patients.
A pathology still on the rise
According to Dr. Patrick Bergeron, overweight is not always perceived as obvious for those who suffer from it. These people do not see themselves as they are because they do not reason in terms of logic but more of drive. Today it is the latter that are put on the spot. Indeed, how can the subject victim of his pounds get out of it if he is, permanently, pulled by sudden cravings for foods, often high in calories, such as chocolate, fries, cold cuts, pizza or sodas?
These irrational behaviors have their origins in the mode of consumption of our contemporary society withsustained pressures on aesthetics, youth, dynamism, thinness, etc. Sometimes it is violence that goes back to childhood with an education “too much or not enough” that specialists expose to argue this devastating epidemic.
For psychoanalyst Catherine Grangeard, however, there is an effective solution for obese subjects who have tried everything: bariatric surgery. The problem raised is that, following the intervention, the care is not sufficiently supervised,especially from the psychological point of view.
Is effective management before and after the intervention possible?
Losing dozens of pounds in the space of a few hours is the beautiful promise of bariatric surgery, a kind of waking dream. It is logical that the upheavals following this intervention should be profound. To better understand it, it would be desirable that the patient can be followed more or less, three months before and two years after the act of surgery. Benefiting from an operation is therefore not enough! These are actionsoriented towards nutrition, physical activity, modification of psychological thought patterns, lifestyle that must be supervised, monitored and encouraged.
But, at present, this monitoring is not appropriate. It may not be profitable enough. And yet, without this care, bariatric surgery is doomed to failure for some obese.
It is clear that being overweight is often a result of bad habits acquired. The subject has no other model to develop to ensure his health. In fact, he does not know how to do otherwise.
Additional information to provide
However, explanatory data with figures, supported protocols and expert reports are published (2)tag. Everything is detailed, listed, planned but in fact little is materialized.
Catherine Grandgeard puts her heart into the work and, like some colleagues, also publishes a book entitled “Understanding obesity”. On her blog she informs, lists, announces all the data relating to real support for the obese person.
In the meantime, the overweight subject mustbe more curious. The collection of relevant information makes it possible to avoid the multiple hazards of which other overweight people have been victims.
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.