Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in 'most severe ever' rationing in the NHS

[IAMX 3,055]

Didn't get to finish editing my post, stupid 10 minute editing time.  

 

10 minutes ago, IAMX said:

Probably lifestyle. People hardly seem to understand the consequences of diet upon their own organs (especially essential ones like the liver and heart), never mind a fetus. Obesity and metabolic syndrome are umbrella diseases that are mostly caused not only by sedentary lifestyle but even more, horrific dietary choices, most of which includes excessive consumption of carbohydrates and calories. Damages the liver causing it to create excess fat from ingested carbs -> overloads hepatocytes and rest of body (where they end up) with converted fatty causing cellular/hepatocyte death (and scarring the liver evading its specific healing function for the body's, the latter of which eventually causes permanent destruction to the liver) -> damages metabolic functions of the liver and kidneys -> blocks portal vein pathway causing hypertensive reaction -> creates high blood pressure and increases odds of kidney failure.  

 

Says a lot that there's a dramatically increased incidence of people in teens and 20s with severe (irreversible) liver damage (cirrhosis), destroyed metabolism, and transplant patients due to diet.. stuff that was typically reserved for those around retirement age. 

 

It's also why the demand for bariatric surgeries has been through the roof, to not only help fix the metabolism most people destroyed due to awful life choices, but to help restrict their intake, something they seemingly couldn't do by themselves.