Why surgery?????

Now in the city of York we have a food addict who wants to have surgery on the NHS. He was booked in for a gastric band operation, then told he couldn't have it. So what does he do? He goes on a fitness regime. He has lost a stone in the last year. He eats salads now, he doesn't take beer any more, he does a very vigorous job, he walks 2 miles a day with the dog. Hes doing really well. But he sees the operation as giving him 15-20 years longer to live. Thats 15-20 years of not being able to eat more than two tablespoons of food at any one time, and then you die. Theres no remission unless of course you take the band off again. He has shown he can lose weight and he is active and working. Why change that?

Now he is to get that op. and we all pay. Taxpayers money wasted on a man who is afraid that if he loses the weight he will gain it again. He is a food addict and knows it but a gastric band wont help that one bit. Why must we all pay the cost of addictions and just let addicts go on as they are, without offering them appropriate help? It would be like a smoker only being able to smoke a 10th of a fag at once. He may smoke just a teeny bit but he'll still be an addict. Stupid.