News media sound bites were ricocheting around the Internet last week suggesting that perhaps type 2 diabetes is an intestinal disorder that can be cured by surgery.
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Type 2 Operable
Meg Fortino
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 12:06 PMre: Type 2 Operable
Gretchen Becker
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 02:51 PMYou're very welcome, Meg. Glad I could help.
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DM 2 in Obesity: A Behavioral Disorder
Dr. Glucose
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 at 10:49 PMIt was 1968; at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Brookline, Mass. Diets were comprised of 40% fat. We were waiting in the dining room. It was snack time. 2 gram crackers (11 gms. carbohydrate) with 120 ml. whole milk. Then, reminiscent of the colonialists' offer of bread to the starving populace in the Movie "Burn," somebody brought out a tray of salad -- 3% carbohydrate -- "free food." The women (those described within the subject) then ran, like wild buffalo, toward the salad which they then consumed instantaneously -- almost without chewing.
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Gretchen Becker
Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 09:45 AMI'm afraid I'm not certain of your point. Do you mean that people eating 40% fat diets crave salad greens?
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New diabetes treatment
Vince McKune
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 10:01 AMWhile doing my taxes in April I had the news on in the background. A doctor was talking about a new diabetes treatment. He was not talking about gastric bypass surgery. He said the first foot of the small intestine controls blood sugar. The doctor passes a tube down into the stomach into the first foot of the small intestine. The food leaving the stomach does not come into contact with the first foot of small intestine. Blood sugar levels drop overnight for these people. I think it was on Fox News. Since then I haven't heard anything else about this and can find nothing about it anywhere. Does anyone know anything about this? vincemck66 @ yahoo .com
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