The Man Couldn T Stop Eating By Atul Gawande Summary

Keep Calm and Eat

Atul Gawande, the author of “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Eating” claims that people who suffer from obesity and the complications that come with it are attracted to weight loss surgery because it appears to be an easy fix rather than the difficulties of changing their lifestyles. Gawande demonstrates how Caselli had a family depending on him for support and to provide. The problem was not just losing the weight but finding a way to keep it off permanently. The patients take pills and try to eat different things but nothing is a quick fix and they lose determination. The patients want to have surgery because it is a quick fix and they just want to return back to a everyday lifestyle where they do not have the worries of

People would rather take the easy way out than to go through the struggles needed to actually make lifestyle changes. The patients would risk the dangerous complications from surgery without hesitation. “It is the most drastic treatment we have for obesity”(Gawande 186).

The is operation dangerous to have the but they are willing to risk it. It is easier for them to have their families sitting in the waiting room at the hospital praying they make it through the surgery than to go the extra mile to make the change without an operation. They show their families how they have a negative attitude towards the process. They demonstrate how problems can be fixed by the easy way with no sacrifice.

A parent's influence can go much farther than one might want to believe. If Caselli’s children begin to eat much larger portions than one should be eating. The children feel no reason to be worried or scared because they believe being bigger is fine. If they become too big they will just simply undergo surgery and move on with their everyday lives. They too will choose the easy