How Is Obesity Cured?
Gastric lap-band surgery may be able to send diabetes into remission--even for people who aren't seriously obese, a new study suggests. Researchers studied 55 people who were clinically obese, but they were not more than 100 pounds overweight. Half of the patients underwent gastric lap-band surgery and the other half were told to lose weight using diet and exercise. After two years, 22 of 30 surgery patients had lost large amounts of weight and had gone into diabetes remission, while only four...
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Obesity
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