Obesity Dallas - North Texas Bariatric & General Surgery, P.A.

America is currently experiencing an obesity epidemic. We provide surgical obesity treatment to communities throughout the greater Dallas area.

DR. FRANK VENINGA: There are three reasons why everyone in, let us say a postmodern society, is actually getting heavier. It isn't just a very small group of people who have become morbidly obese and everyone else has remained slender. If you look at old movies from the '30s and the '40s and crowd scenes in New York, what you see are large groups of relatively skinny people. Nowadays if you take a crowd scene from a mall anywhere in America or a crowd scene from New York City everyone in general has become heavier. There are generally three reasons for this, which everyone tends to agree with. The first is that food is available in our society 24/7. If I drive from where I am sitting now to my home, which is about 15 miles, I will pass within visual sight several hundred places that I can drive in or stop and get virtually unlimited amounts of food for relatively little effort. Two, the type of work that we do, the activities that we do to survive, to do our day in and day out usual activities generally don't require nearly the physical exertion that even our grandparents and our ancestors before that did. Lastly, we want to eat and that is the core issue that the lap band, and I believe the other bariatric operations, except for the duodenal switch, actually address.