Lasting & Highly Beneficial

Great news in the world of health: A major study reported that bariatric surgery can have an immediate, lasting, and highly beneficial impact on those with diabetes.  In fact, the report had it that the surgery improved or completely eliminated the disease in well over half of the patients studied. Obesity is a main risk factor in type 2 diabetes, with over 90% of patients overweight or obese, and diet and exercise have long been prescribed as a way to curb the effects of the disease.

Meanwhile, bariatric patients lose weight the way other people do, by eating less and following a good diet, though the surgery makes it very uncomfortable to eat large amounts of food. Still, they must commit to a different diet for the rest of their lives and often attend support group meetings to help them deal with the consequences of the surgery. Studying the effects of bariatric surgery was an intuitive stroke of genius, hence, it appears that by completely and surgically removing the obesity risk factor, the diabetes managed to resolve itself.  This does also lend evidence to the suspicion that type 2 diabetes is directly related to obesity and inactivity.