60 Minutes today talks about gastric bypass

My neighbor just called to tell me 60 minutes is going to discuss gastric bypass tonight.   I ck'd their website and he is correct.  Just a FYI. Take care, Pam

Shoot!  I missed it!  How was it?

I watched it and it was actually really good.  They portrayed the Gastric Bypass in a positive light.  They talked about getting rid of Diabetes and other co-morbidities by having the surgery. http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/160/the_bypass_effect There is a link to the show.  Of course I don't know how to make the link clickable! Thanks Pam for telling us it was on! Kim

It was great.  One lady was taking 8 injections of insulin per day and was cured immediately following the surgery.  They said they may need rethink it as a cure for diabetes.   Also, cancer from obesity is decreased by half as the wt loss stays off.   You can read some of it on the link posted in the previous post but it was in a very positive light.  One doc also said the fatality rate is now only 1 in  thousand which is less than gallbladder surgery. Take care, Pam