These kids seem to have a problem, both medically as well as being raised by poor parents. These kids are 100% dependant upon their parents for every meal, every snack, every desert.
Gastric surgery is only attacking the symptom, the problem appears to be a parent who apparently enjoys placing their children in a set of circumstances in which their weight is completely out of control. I’ve been fighting my weight my entire life; but while I was growing up, my parents took an active role in monitoring my food intake, and making certain that my chores were strenuous enough to keep me trim.
I have to wonder how much of this obesity comes from having to keep kids inside because of all the demented criminals running around that snatch up kids and kill them. So they have to keep their kids smothered inside and avoid the loonies that are allowed to run around the streets.