Obesity: A Link To Diabetes Health experts clearly recognize that many of the diseases today are caused by obesity and these diseases are usually of a life threatening nature. One of these dreaded diseases which often plaques the obese individual is diabetes. It is very alarming that the young American population today is rapidly becoming [...]

Bariatric Surgery – A cure for Type 2 diabetes Since 1995, numerous studies have published results showing that bariatric surgery and in particular the gastric bypass procedure cures type 2 diabetes. It is thought that the cure is brought about by changes to the hormones produced by the digestive system as a result of surgery [...]

There is a lot of controversy surrounding gastric bypass surgery because it involves the stapling of the stomach in order to make it smaller. By making it smaller it is able to hold less food. It also bypasses that area of the stomach that is responsible for absorbing most of the calorie and nutrients that [...]