Diet, exercise, medication less effective for obese patients with Type 2 diabetes
(NEWSER) - It almost sounds too good to be true: You're obese, and suffering from Type 2 diabetes—how to best control your blood sugar? You can get on a strict regimen of diet, exercise, and medicine ... or just undergo weight-loss surgery. If surgery seems like the slightly easier solution, it turns out it's also the more effective one. Two new studies, one out of Italy, the other conducted in the US, studied the effects of the two routes, and found that reducing the size, and in some cases the placement, of the stomach allowed many subjects to get off their medication—within weeks. More»
