Bariatric surgery for T2DM

The death rate from obesity surgery, tracked over a ten year period, is much higher than the predicted death rate from obesity or diabetes would be. Slow-developing complications can lead to severe malnutrition, like that which killed Elliott Yamin's mother several years after her "successful" bypass.

Read this before you have the surgery: <a href="http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/jfs-special-latest-research-on-actual.html">Junk Food Science: The Latest Research on Deaths from Bariatric Surgery</a>.

This surgery is "studied" almost entirely by the people who profit from it--a lot. It is an expensive surgery.

A supervised low carbohydrate diet is equally effective for many people and without the risk of death or nutritional disability.

I see that Jenny beat me to it, but here's another link to the same blog: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/08/was-this-really-proof-that-bariatric.html

BTW, the lady who writes that blog is not afraid to question conventional wisdom. Here are some other examples: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-do-healthy-eating-and-lifestyles.html 

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/11/null-series-healthy-eating-for.html

I learned that patients must follow a strict low carb diet after surgery. It would be great to compare one group using the same diet without surgery and one with surgery. I believe it would show the impact of the diet is a large component of the resolution of diabetes type 2 symptoms.