TV presenters Fern Britton and Anne Diamond have both admitted having surgery to help them lose weight and the NHS is now carrying out more of the operations than ever before.

A variety of methods, known as bariatric surgery, that can be used to reduce the size of the stomach or bypass it, including inflating a balloon inside the stomach, placing a band around the top and stapling a portion of it shut.

The NHS only carries out bariatric surgery on people who morbidly obese or those who are obese and have other health problems such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

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Bariatric surgery in the UK.