Study: People Who Have Weight Surgery are 50% More Likely to Suicide

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
October 8, 2015

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Better to never get fat in the first place.

Start young on the paleo diet and never get fat.

Market Business:

People who undergo surgery for weight loss are 50% more likely to attempt suicide after the operation than before it, according to a large Canadian study published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery.

The popular procedures, which were performed nearly 200,000 times in the U.S. last year, result in significant weight loss for most patients and often bring about reductions in Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and sleep apnea as well. Many patients also report improved mood and self-esteem. But a small group experience a worsening of depression, substance abuse and eating disorders, past studies have found.

Earlier studies have also noted that suicides are several times more common among bariatric-surgery patients than in the general population, but whether that was due to the operation or high rates of mental-health issues associated with obesity hasn’t been clear.

The new study, from the Sunnybrook Research Institute at the University of Toronto, addressed that issue by comparing suicide attempts in the same group of patients, before and after surgery.

The researchers studied hospital records for 8,815 Ontario residents who had bariatric surgery between 2006 and 2011 for three years before and after the procedures. Of the group, 111 were treated for 158 “self-harm emergencies” at hospitals during those years. One-third of those suicide attempts occurred before the patients had the surgery; two-thirds occurred afterward. Overall, the rate of self-harm attempts was 2.3 per 1,000 before the surgery and 3.6 per 1,000 afterward, compared with fewer than 1 per 1,000 in the general population.

It could be that fatties are just depressed generally, I suppose. But I also think that the drastic nature of removing this much weight at once could have serious consequences on the endocrine system.

Speaking of the endocrine system, Steve Sailer has an interesting piece over at Takimag about steroids and testosterone.