Is Bariatric Surgery the Solution to America's Obesity Problem?

Sounds a bit like cheating, but as an avid watcher of My 600-lb Life I'm all for.

On a more serious note, it feels pretty messed up trying to "solve" the problem by conducting 20M surgeries. Having watched the aforementioned show one learns that there's usually a whole package of surgeries to go through (skin removal, bad knees etc), leaving people pretty severely scarred. All in all it's pretty grotesque to be honest.

On the other hand I guess you need to try to break the cycle of the next generation getting fatter than the previous one somehow...