When the knife fails
The Washington Post Posted: Nov 01, 2008

For the first time in my life I felt like a normal person,” says Josh Thayer, who dropped from 367 pounds to 230 within a year of undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 1998.

The best part, he says, was not having to “think about food. I ate when I was hungry, stopped when I was full. I didn’t feel like I was fighting an uphill battle.”

Until five years later, when the weight started creeping back on.

When the 6-foot Thayer edged up to 310 earlier this year at age 45, he decided to go for a second operation.
Second surgeries to combat obesity are on the rise. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery doesn’t keep statistics on repeat customers, but obesity surgeons are reporting upticks.

Dennis Halmi, a member of the Bluepoint Surgical Group in Woodbridge, says in 2002, they did nearly six second operations on obesity patients. “This year we are doing probably 30”.

Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes cases

By MIKE STOBBE – Nov. 1, 2008

ATLANTA (AP) — The nation's obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government said Thursday.

Nationally, the rate of new cases climbed from about 5 per 1,000 in the mid-1990s to 9 per 1,000 in the middle of this decade.

Roughly 90 percent of cases are Type 2 diabetes, the form linked to obesity.

The findings dovetail with trends seen in obesity and lack of exercise.

Diabetes was the nation's seventh-leading cause of death in 2006, according to the CDC. More than 23 million Americans have diabetes, and the number is rapidly growing. About 1.6 million new cases were diagnosed among adults last year.

In Type 2 diabetes, cells do not properly use insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar into energy, and the pancreas gradually loses its ability to produce it. The illness can cause sugar to build up in the body, leading to complications such as heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and poor circulation that leads to foot amputations.

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