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A leading surgeon operating on obese patients says he has seen young people so overweight during his career that they have not left home in eight years.
Jonathan Barry's team at Morriston Hospital in Swansea has had 1,000 referrals in 18 months.
Dealing with obesity is costing the NHS in Wales an estimated ?73m a year.
Plaid Cymru AM Lindsay Whittle claimed some parents were "killing their own children with kindness" by not tackling their intake of food.
Up to 90 morbidly obese patients a year undergo operations at the Welsh Institute of Metabolic and Obesity Surgery at Morriston to limit the capacity of their stomachs, or receive other treatment to reduce the number of calories they absorb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-18833910
Jonathan Barry's team at Morriston Hospital in Swansea has had 1,000 referrals in 18 months.
Dealing with obesity is costing the NHS in Wales an estimated ?73m a year.
Plaid Cymru AM Lindsay Whittle claimed some parents were "killing their own children with kindness" by not tackling their intake of food.
Up to 90 morbidly obese patients a year undergo operations at the Welsh Institute of Metabolic and Obesity Surgery at Morriston to limit the capacity of their stomachs, or receive other treatment to reduce the number of calories they absorb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-18833910