Article 1: Weight Loss Surgery is NOT for Kids!!!

            Many people have seen the weight loss surgery commercials on TV. All of them show adults explaining how much they love their body after having a weight loss surgery with a certain doctor, but never in any of those commercials have they shown a small child saying how happy he or she was in going through that procedure as well. A morbidly obese two-year-old from Saudi Arabia is the youngest person EVER to have gastric bypass surgery. In my opinion, this is wrong; a small child shouldn’t be put through this. They are small and their bodies are still growing and adapting. To have a child as small as him to have a surgery as huge as this one, can be very dangerous. There are many chances of the surgery to not work or even cause death.

According to the Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) in Gainesville, Florida, their research shows gastric-bypass surgery’s death rate at between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 200. Then in an AHRQ study, 4 in 10 patients developed complications within the first six months. Not only have that, along with the complications being diarrhea, infections, and up to a 40% chanced of nutrition deficiency and other extreme cases. Kelvin Higa, M.D., immediate past president of ASMBS says, “This is a serious lifelong commitment.” It’s an adjustment so profound that patients are screened to make sure they’re psychologically up to the task — tests that, according to a recent study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, one-fifth of would-be patients fail.(- http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26076054/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/t/miracle-weight-loss-isnt/#.UkDShtKkr6Y -)

Although in this certain situation the bypass surgery came out to be a success, it still doesn't prove that it is safe. The doctors had tried to have the child on a diet, but due to the parent’s lack of control and care for the child, said on Yahoo Health, his situation worsened. I don’t have any proof of the parents of this child not enforcing healthy eating habits, but just having a bypass surgery won’t just end the obesity.

In my opinion, this bypass surgery wasn't necessary. All of these facts about how the bypass surgery could go wrong is towards adults. There has only been one child other than this 2-year-old that has gone through this procedure, except he was 7 years-old. Even then 7 year-old and  2 year-old children shouldn't go through this surgery. These two children are the only ones that have gone through this so how can people derive that nothing will go wrong. If so many adults have these side effects, imagine what little children would go through.

http://health.yahoo.net/articles/obesity/obese-2-year-old-gets-weight-loss-surgery 

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Many people have a hobby. They either run, play chess, hike, and maybe even keep a rock       collection! I don’t know, but what I do know is that my hobby is to dance.

Dancing isn't just ballet or hip-hop. There are tons and tons of other types of dances all around      the world. My personal favorite is Hip-hop, reggaetón, bachata, cumbia, norteñas, and many others I can’t think of at the moment. I love them, actually. The way you dance them makes me feel alive, free, sexy even, and not have a care in the world. I love the type of music that goes along with it, the passion within the lyrics. All just combine and become a whole other world, a world I am proud to be a part of. I dance because there’s no greater feeling in the world than moving to a piece of music and letting the rest of the world disappear.

My mother was a dancer when she was in high school at R.L. Turner. She was even on this               newspaper I found in one of my mom’s things. My thought at first was be, “Maybe dancing is in my blood?”, because I started dancing when I was 2 years old, but as I got older my dancing got more intense. I had never taken a dance class in my life! So, when I walked into dance class in my freshman year of high school, I knew that something good was going to come out of this. During that year, two professional dancers walked into our class and taught us some moves (hip-hop to be exact), and till this day I still remember the routine. At the end of class my dance teacher and the two professionals asked me to stay behind to talk to me. I thought I was in trouble at first for some reason, but as I closed the door after everyone had left and walked towards them and saw their smiling faces, I knew that it I was good. I sat in front of them on the dance floor, looking up at them and them looking down at me, like tall skyscrapers.  One of the dancers kneels down next to me and says, “Heidy, you really impressed me today. You are a great dancer and I can see that you really love it”. I nod. “How would you like to be a  member at our dance academy?” I breathed in those words and felt it fill me up with excitement. I jumped up and screamed my head off thanking them for giving me that opportunity and telling them that I’d get back to them as I ran out the door to get to my next class.

I didn't join the academy (mom didn't let me), but I still keep that in the back of my head all the time. The way the words came out were like music to my ears. Now every time I dance, her voice is in the back of my head reminding me that I am a good dancer and that I have good potential in my dancing, that it can becoming something more than just a hobby.

Triple T

What I LOVE about school:

1.       The amazing teachers. They’re really cool.

2.       The spirit within the school. We go all out!

3.       The freedom to express ourselves in our clothing and hair.

4.       Being able to see my friends. That would be hard not to do.

5.       The use of new technology. I honestly have never used an iPad or an Apple computer till now that I am in high school and the school provides that.

6.       New relationships made every day. I’m a very social person.

7.       Learning new things. The number one reason I’m at school in the first place.

8.       The variety of choices to take in our high school journey.

9.       The AMAT academy!! I’m in that by the way.

10.   Our mascot and the color blue, one of my favorite colors.

What I HATE about school:

1.       The lunch food. It tastes gross.

2.       The small narrow hallways. There is not enough room to get by.

3.       The different colleges. Now, I can’t be in cosmetology because then I have to decide on staying in one college or going to another.

4.       How only seniors get to leave off campus. Why can’t we all go out to eat?

5.       The waste of paper!!! I am pretty sure that all of the papers given to us goes straight to the trashcan.

6.       Having to get good grades to get into college. Okay yeah, I have good grades now how am I supposed to pay for it?

7.       The snotty stuck up people. No, you are not better than anyone else in this school so swerve.

8.       The little crowd of people in the middle of the hallway. The hallways are already small enough!

9.       The 5 minutes to get to class. I also have to use the restroom and 5 minutes isn’t going to be enough for me to do my business and get to class on time.

10.   How early it begins.  Can we all just sleep in?

-The Fault in Our Stars