This week I saw a magazine program on TV – a program I rarely watch. It was a “good news” weight-loss story – yet it saddened me. It was about a woman who had her stomach surgically “banded” so she could lose weight.

This lady had wrestled unsuccessfully with obesity for so long, she finally decided surgery was the only way to weight-lo

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