The woman in the story I was reading, WAS eating up to 40 bars of chocolate a day!! Now I,m sorry but there is only one word for someone like that.... PIG.
That is just plain simple greed. Ultimately you control what food goes in your mouth. You don,t have to eat a whole packet of biscuits or a family sized pizza, or family sized bars of chocolate do you? She was just plain greedy. Yes maybe she did have an addiction, in that case it should have been treated before she resorted to such a drastic measure, because as you rightly said, the health risks are enormous. More so I would think the bigger you are.I just think that maybe people should do more to help themselves before they resort to surgery. I mean 40 bars of chocolate? It,s a wonder she wasn,t sick. I can eat about 2 squares maximum and that,s it. Any more and I,d be sick. I read about another woman who was also clinically obese, ie she weighed well over 25 stone. She was on a flight to somewhere, and the pilot actually had to stop the plane and make her sit at the back because she weighed the front of the plane down and they couldn,t take off!! I,d have been mortified. It stopped her stuffing her face though and she went on to loose weight normally.