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A new agreement with the Canadian Health Care system will allow Canadians to cross the boarder into the United States and have weight loss surgery performed. Canada is ill-equipped to handle bariatric weight loss surgery compared to the US. It will also help decrease the amount of time it takes for a Canadian patient to receive treatment. Currently, Canadians waiting to receive weight loss surgery are on a five year waiting list.

A recent report, published by Fox News, details the social and lifestyle changes of food portion distortion. Since the 1960′s food portions have increased by three times resulting in the average American waste size increasing almost as much thanks to aggressive marketing campaigns by the food industry. Terms like “SuperSize,” “MegaSize,” and “Jumbo” permeate the food industry and unfortunately this has resulted in a rise of morbid obesity and other health related issues in Americans today.