I had to explain to an African dude why fat hospitals exist. So I met a Senegalese dude who was alarmed at the fact how many freakishly fat people we have in Texas to the point that we have bariatric hospitals. He said that he's seen fat people eat so much food and wonder how they keep going and not stop. I asked him if he watched My 600 Pound Life and he said yes and I told him that what he sees on that is way more common than he thinks. When I explained to him how we have hospitals for the morbidly obese, he replied "Oh wow! Really?" Then I had to explain to him all the lovely problems with being that fat like beetus and kidney failure (along with OW MAH LEG). After the explanation, he then said "All this because people won't stop eating?" and I said "Yup! All because they wont eat less that's why we're in this mess today! You're not going to find one hospital in Texas that has never dealt with morbidly obese patients." I even explained to him why in America, we perform gastric bypass surgery and what it's intended to do as well as the risks involved with this. When the Senegalese dude said "Wouldn't it be easier if they just ate less?", I told him technically but when you factor in things like depression and no self-control, it's going to take more than just gastric bypass to get them to eat less. We also refer bariatric patients to psychiatric counseling to get to the source of the problems on why they eat so much. So yeah we don't just staple fatties' stomachs and warn them to eat less to avoid rupturing their stomachs, we also refer them to psychiatric help to get their minds away from overeating. First world problems are designing bariatric wards for patients because they can't stop eating. Third world success is not having to deal with lots of land whales daily. Oh and the hospital I once volunteered at has expanded (teehee) their weight loss programs by including running events too with a bigger staff with doctors dedicated to bariatric medicine. Yeah I had to explain that to the Senegalese dude too. If people ate less, think of how much grief we could have prevented from all of this!