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Surgically slim: a cure for obesity, and why it's risky.(Start the year right)
Medical science has yet to come up with a diet, exercise, or drug guaranteed to make fat people thin, but there is one reliable solution: surgery, in the form of gastric bypass or banding. It can take weight off immediately, can cure type 2 diabetes practically overnight, and can lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
Not surprisingly, weight-loss surgery is being performed on more and more Americans--a projected record high of 171,200 in 2005, says the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Doctors won't run out of customers anytime soon. At least 10 million Americans are heavy enough to be eligible for the surgery, meaning they're usually at least 100 pounds ...
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