Are you talking about the subject at hand or are you talking about the media/Aus as a whole when you say "We"?
This was a more generalised comment about our cultural approach to weight, diet and health.

Sure in Australia it seems at the moment that the surgery is restricted to those who seem to really need it. The trend in the States is a bit different though, and that is a worry. Not something I would want to see happen here.

[/QUOTE]I don't believe that any Dr/fitness instructor etc uses BMI alone.[/QUOTE]

Possibly not - but people certainly use it to judge themselves. And when we have teenage girls using such a crude measure to judge the appropriateness of their body weight I personally feel that we are creating a problem. But then I have a twelve year old sister so I am probably biased about this.

RachelM I really don't think we disagree. I think there needs to be more of a focus on genuine health, which means eating healthy whole food and being active.

I personally don't feel that funding obesity surgery should be the government's first health priority given the other problems already existing in the health system. That's just my opinion.