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Fat-reduction operations on the rise

A new report is showing that there has been a huge rise in the number of fat-reducing operations on the NHS.

The figures, from the NHS's Health and Social Care Information Centre, showed a 70% rise in the number of Gastric band and gastric bypass operations taking place on the NHS between 2008/9 and 2009/10. In the same period there was also a 30% rise in the number of people admitted to hospital, mainly due to obesity with the figure having risen ten-fold in the last decade.

Tam Fry, from the National Obesity Forum, said that he would not be surprised if there was a further 30% rise in the number of operations taking place in 2011/12. He added that the new figures will prove to those looking to undermine the severity of obesity in the country how serious the situation is. He said: "The present government cannot be held to account for obesity as it exists today but it must be held to account if its policies are not better-focused to tackle it from now on."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8345168/Obesity-operations-rise-70pc-in-a-year.html

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