How about educating people?

This really pisses me off.

OBESE people as young as 14 would get free weight-reduction surgery under a radical Australian Medical Association proposal to tackle the obesity crisis.

The Opposition and health groups have backed the scheme for publicly funded weight loss surgery, which was proposed by the association in a submission to the State Government.

Full story here.

Yeah, let's allow parents to keep making their children fat, but hey, that's ok, coz they can have major surgery when they reach puberty and all will be well in the world. How about taking your kids to a park and letting them run around, instead of sitting their arses in front of a computer or tv all day every day? How about giving them a vegetable or two, instead of something out of a box, or can, or drive through? No, let's not try to avoid the problem. Let's have things become a problem, then quick fix them with lap band surgery while the kid's body is still not fully developed. Yeah, that's smart.