On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:51:38 -0400, "Janet" >
wrote:

>BlueBrooke wrote:
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>> Actually, there has been discussion in ASD about such surgery "curing"
>> T2, and there have been some interesting results.
>
>If memory serves, doesn't that have something to do with literally
>reconstructing the colon so that food reaches a different part of it first?
>
>Good luck with this, Evelyn. Glad you are feeling so well and losing weight.


Thanks.

They don't touch the colon. In bypass surgery they disconnect a part
of the stomach and reconnect to the small intestine further down, so
the procedure is not just restrictive, but also malabsorbtive.

I didn't have that surgery. In my case they only just made the
stomach itself smaller.

Evelyn