I just wanted to defend my comments about “curing” diabetes. There was a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine 3 weeks ago that compares three groups of patients. One had gastric bypass, a second group had a different procedure known as BPD and the third used diet and exercise. 75% of patients who underwent gastric bypass had full remission of their diabetes, 95% of the group that underwent BPD also did, but none of the people who did not have surgery had remission of their diabetes. I’m sorry if I brought this possibility in with lap band procedures, I mixed up BPD and lap band. After researching it further, BPD is an even more drastic procedure than gastric bypass.
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