Avoid this ‘cutting edge’ cure for diabetes
You’d have to be cracked to believe the best way to “cure” bunions is to hack off the foot. Yet the idea of chopping off part of the stomach to prevent diabetes is somehow getting big-time credibility in the medical world.
Now, I’m not saying diabetes isn’t worse than bunions. Of course it is.
But surgery makes about as much sense, since you can avoid or even cure the disease without putting your gut (or foot, for that matter) anywhere near a scalpel.
Researchers don’t want to talk about that, though. Instead, they’re yapping about the 1,658 patients who got one of three forms of stomach-shrinking surgery and how, over 15 years, they were 80 percent less likely to get diabetes than a control group.
Sounds great… until you see that the control group wasn’t a control group at all. They didn’t compare the surgery patients to a group of obese people who lost weight without surgery.
Nope.
They compared them to obese people who merely wished to lose weight.
You know how well wishing works when it comes to weight loss. OF COURSE they didn’t lose any weight, so OF COURSE they were far more likely to get diabetes.
But the only way they’d be part of a truly balanced study on gastric bypass is if researchers compared them to a group of obese people who merely wished for the procedure, but didn’t get it.
Look, forget all the headlines on this. Stomach-shrinking surgeries are far more dangerous than they’re letting on — with risks up to and including death itself.
Besides, the real problem with diabetes isn’t the size of your stomach so much as how it got that way. It’s what you put into it that counts — and if you change that now, your risk of diabetes will plunge to zero.
That even works for people who already have the disease.
And your battle is with bunions, try wearing shoes that actually fit for a change.
