“Despite billions of dollars spent on weight loss treatment, the number of morbidly obese patients continues to increase. The only treatment option shown to have any type of success in this population is bariatric surgery.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15677821 Surgical procedures have shown to decrease reliance on obesity-related pharmaceutical interventions (ie: diabetes, hypertension, etc.), but they have also been shown to increase serious …