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Post by ss on Apr 23, 2008 17:50:46 GMT
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Post by LaFille on Apr 24, 2008 2:46:53 GMT
Interesting... Such finding about the surgery and remission from diabetes is great. That doc's point of view (or the way it is presented, I don't know) scare me a little, though... I know that such surgery can change the life of those who suffer from morbid obesity, which is sometimes a condition that's not linked to the persons's lifestyle primarily, and for those cases I agree that it can be a very good thing; it's for the rest of the cases, where the lifestyle or a psychologic disorder are in cause that I have reserves... Because there can be other ways to get similar results; not so dramatically and it requires more effort from the patients, but it's also a less aggressive way that targets more the real cause of the problems in these cases. The stomach is a little like a sponge, in the medium-long term; the less you eat, the less you become able to eat and the less hungry you get because it shrinks, can't stretch as much and produces less as it once did when you used to eat a lot (and the inverse as well). Advocating for the massive practice of such surgery seems also dangerous to promote it as an utopic remedy, while it's not a benign thing at all (one death by thousand isn't so small, and without talking about the number of possible non-lethal complications  ). Regarding the link between the surgery and the diabetes lowering, they talk about it and weight loss, saying it isn't related, but nothing is said about the link between diabetes and fasting for that surgery plus the drastically reduced food intake after, without mentionning that in addition to that the people probably eat food of a healthier quality as well after; those are the real cause of all the other almost miraculous improvements on cancer, sleep apnea & company, which are possible to obtain without surgery necessarily. I hope they'll continue to study the link between the surgery and the incidence on diabetes to hopefully find a way to use those benefits without undergoing such surgery; that would be most awesome. |
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Post by cleglaw on Apr 24, 2008 3:33:58 GMT
Interesting.
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