Are Weight Loss Surgery & Plastic Surgery Going To Become The Norm? (514 hits)

A couple years ago, I was on a business trip to Los Angeles. I was driving with a friend and we were sitting in traffic. The commercials on the radio were for plastic surgery and gastric bypass surgery. Commercials like those weren't very common in the Mid-Atlantic and North Eastern part of the country at the time.
Are people just giving up and resorting to weight loss surgery? What do you think is going on? Do you think exercise and diet work for most people? Why is the average American waistline increasing?
I've seen shows like Extreme Makeover and The Swan. Some of the women looked like they could have used make up and a salon visit, but not all of that surgery. Are the standards of beauty becoming so unreal that real people cannot achieve them? What I found out today is that for the "before" video on The Swan, they tell these women not to stand up straight, wear frumpy clothes, and they even rubbed vitamin E into one woman's hair to make is look greasy and limp. They also tell them not to wear make-up. These surgeries are pretty serious. Do the benefits outweigh the risks?What are your thoughts on plastic surgery and weight loss surgery? Posted By:
Monday, September 22nd 2008 at 2:50AM
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