"Toe-besity" Surgery on the Rise

[DavidDvorkin]

When patients seek out cosmetic surgery from New York-based Dr. Oliver Zong, they're often looking to remove fat, but not from their bellies or thighs.

Zong is a podiatrist, and one of his specialties is slimming down people's fat toes -- "toe-besity," he calls it.

http://news.yahoo.com/toe-besity-surgery-rise-212800408--abc-news-health.html


This is how Rome fell.

[HopeHoops]

1. That's just not right. You need proportional toes for balance. It's a symptom not a cause.

[Fumesucker]

2. The tribulations of people with more dollars than sense...

[randome]

3. Unless you have a really serious fetish!

[Initech]

5. Coincidentally I'm watching "Idiocracy" as I'm reading this thread...

[FSogol]

9. It's got electroltyes!

[Initech]

12. What plants crave!!

[thelordofhell]

10. Go away......batin'

[Initech]

17. Oh yeah give me some... cut me a piece...

[n2doc]

4. Not as bad as the ones having surgery to improve their genital's appearance n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Thank you for not posting a link

I would have felt obliged to follow it, and I would probably have regretted doing so forever.

[-..__...]

18. I humbly submit... anal bleaching...

for beautiful people bungholes.

http://www.analbleaching.com/

[DavidDvorkin]

19. Good God.

[HiPointDem]

23. both the idea and the ad copy are disgusting.

[2on2u]

26. If you just drank some bleach, wouldn't the effects be the same? Not suggesting anyone

try it, just sayin'.

[2on2u]

27. If you just drank some bleach, wouldn't the effects be the same? Not suggesting anyone

try it, just sayin'.

[woodsprite]

28. Yeah, don't do it. Even diluted it burns and makes you feel like you can't breath (from the fumes)

then you have to call poison control, and they'll tell you to eat a 1/2 stick of butter (to try to protect your gut) and you burp bleach smell for a week.

Been there, accidentally did it when I was an impatient kid.

[spanone]

7. humans are odd critters

[Odin2005]

8. More vanity shit for the 1%.

[LeftyMom]

11. If you don't like how your toes look, wear shoes.

There, I just saved you thousands of dollars, if you are beyond vain and completely lack sense. Feel free to send me a cut before you spend the rest on something moronic.

[Lint Head]

13. I'm thinking about having my middle finger permanently extended.

[malaise]

14. DUzy

a most appropriate one

[jillan]

15. And Dick Morris goes wild!! Sexy Toes everywhere!!

[Posteritatis]

16. I .... really pity people for whom that's actually important. (nt)

[cali]

20. this just makes me furious

the toes on my left foot are fat- or rather they're hideously swollen as is the whole foot and ankle due to a condition called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. And I've just had a third surgery for a multiple segmental breaks of my tibia and fibula and these assholes are actually having surgery for fat toes. If one of them dies under anesthesia, they deserve it.

[DCKit]

21. If only someone would come up with a cure for cankles. nt

[HiPointDem]

22. who are these people with so much money to spend on cosmetic surgeries?

[FrodosPet]

24. They need YogaToes!

Saw this ad next to your post:

http://www.yogapro.com/products/YogaToes.html

[jesspinto]

25. That's wrong

Woah.........That's just wrong. The concept of proportion just goes straight out the window.