Heights of Weight losing

How funny!

I was rolling on the floor laughing like anything after I read what it actually was all about!

I was watching some videos of different surgeries (heart operations, eye surgery etc) and came across this one video which is about what is called the Lap band surgery

The video was pretty painful to watch as any surgery would be and I wrongly guessed that it might be related to solving some serious issue in the body which required cutting open the belly like this!

After watching the video did some search on the internet to see what the surgery was all about and lo, this is what it turned out to be!

This is how Lap Band suffocates your stomach

“Lap Band Surgery is a form of restrictive weight loss surgery by placing an inflatable silicone prosthetic device (called the gastric band) around the top portion of the stomach!

The placement of the band creates a small pouch at the top of the stomach which holds approximately 50 ml. This pouch ‘fills’ with food quickly and the passage of food from the top to the bottom of the stomach is slowed. As the upper part of the stomach believes it is ‘full’, the message to the brain is that the stomach is full and this sensation helps the person to eat smaller portions and lose weight over time. The band is inflated/adjusted via a small access port placed just under the skin subcutaneously.”

Now, this for me is the sheer heights of all weight losing mechanisms! Man, if you dont want to eat more, just dont eat more, thats it. Why on earth do you need to rip open your belly for that and place some pouch inside to mislead your own brain?! For God’s sake, or atleast for your own body’s sake, dont treat the body like a dumb machine, its NOT.

After having this implant, while eating, when you feel your stomach is full, dont you then know that its actually not?! Doesnt the same brain which receives the ‘full’ message also know that its not ‘full’!

What if the person swallows a bigger portion of unchewed food? Wouldnt it lead to stomach blockade because of the narrow passage? What if the band tightens up too much? First of all why all this circus?

What if I am a person who simply loves eating for the taste of it, irrespective of whether the stomach is full or not? Then everything piles up till my throat is it? Oh man, can you imagine the digestive system becoming like a blocked sewage line!

If you are overweight, the solution is pretty simple. Consume good quality natural food and do proper exercises everyday. Its more about mind control than anything else.

Lets not have complex solutions for simple problems. The solution to obesity is NOT eating less, its eating PROPER food and doing ADEQUATE physical activities everyday. Its actually control over your mind that should be controlling the body. Oh man, do we need a surgery to compensate for our lack of self control to eat less?

I keep telling the girls, if you are fat dont ask me whether you are fat, for I wont deny the fact. Obesity is a condition which proves that the God does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and keep on helping themselves

Lap band access ports after surgery to adjust the band!

Now what if the person who has this ‘Lap band thing’ implanted loves eating junk food (which most obese people do). Prior to the surgery since he/she didnt have this ‘thing’, there were chances that the person also ate good quality food after eating the junk food. But now? after eating the junk, this ‘thing’ tells the brain, that the stomach is full (of what?). So what about the nutrients required everyday for your body?

Obesity is not all about over consumption or calories. Its actually about WRONG consumption combined with a lack of complementary expenditure (physical exercises) of the consumed energy.

Instead of eating junk food, eat normal natural healthy stuff. Eat well, exercise well. As simple as that. Come to the villages of India to see some of our farmers eating n times more than what the obese people eat. And yet these farmers are as fit as an athlete. Reason? Its not the quantity of the food, its the quality plus adequate physical activities to burn out the energy intake, that matters.

Its so funny to see human body being reduced to a set of silicon implants today.
Cosmetic evolution? Silicon in the breasts, now silicon in the belly, and God knows where all. Natural beauty has become a thing of the past, for today is an era of getting things done fast. Few people realize that there is no shortcut to any place worth going

Isnt it an irony that while on the one hand we are trying to make robots more natural and intelligent like we humans are, on the other hand we are converting our own body parts (unnecessarily) into artificial things like the robotic parts are? Its an altogether different issue when there is a medical need to do it.

But why do it just to look big? A Robot with some silicon up there and a human being with silicon in the same place. Whats the difference?

Would there be a proverb in the future like, ‘The more perfect her body, the less natural its content‘ ;)

Wouldn’t this lead to robots claiming in the future that they are more humans than humans themselves?

Isn’t it our responsibility to ensure that we dont become the tools of our tools, or have we already become?