“…Many physicians still believe that obesity is controllable, self-inflicted and the patients themselves are responsible for it; hence, weight could easily be reduced by dieting and exercise instead of concentrating on the benefits of WLS [18,28,29]. Again, there are calls to move away from making unsuccessful pre-operation dieting a prerequisite for candidacy for surgery [27], but rather to make a decision for or against surgery based on the patients' weight history and well-being.…”