Reply #20: The article is talking about a bariatric surgery [View All]

[dropkickpa]

using a lap band. No some new-fangled amazing cure-all for diabetes. The way it gets rid of type 2 obesity caused diabetes is the excess weight is lost, allowing the the body to function more normally. The results seen with the lap band are the same as with any other bariatric surgery, and commom knowlege. Lose the excess weight and your blood pressure, diabetes, and other obesity related disorders resolve.

from the article

In almost three-quarters of those who had surgery, all signs of diabetes disappeared. Only 13 percent of those given conventional therapy had complete remissions. The difference was because of weight loss. Patients in the medically treated group lost only 1.7 percent of their weight, on average. Those in the surgically treated group lost 20.7 percent.