{"id":1448,"date":"2008-03-05T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T21:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/weight-loss-sur-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T21:34:02","slug":"weight-loss-sur-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/weight-loss-sur-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight-loss surgery and the effect on diabetes | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Health Columnist Judy Foreman | The Dallas Morning News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely despise articles like these &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/fea\/columnists\/jforeman\/stories\/DN-nh_foreman_0304liv.ART.State.Edition1.46584cc.html\"> Weight-loss surgery and the effect on diabetes | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Health Columnist Judy Foreman | The Dallas Morning News <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\n<!--StartFragment--><br \/>\nElizabeth Soto used to say <em>no<\/em> when her husband suggested they go dancing.   &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to go,&#8221; she would say. &#8220;I felt tired and ugly.&#8221; She also was   carrying 314 pounds on her 5-7 frame and had Type 2 diabetes<br \/>\n<!--EndFragment-->\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">One of my dear friends brought this article to school for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Of course, she couldn&#8217;t answer the two most important questions about the surgery:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">a) How is the complication rate and in particular the death rate? <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">b) How much will it cost?&#160; <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Well the biggest answer is that our insurance won&#8217;t cover it, last time I looked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">And the complication rate scares the heck out of me.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Besides if my pancreatis hadn&#8217;t been damaged, going on the nuitrion protocol would probably make me not need insulin too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">None of the above was in the article at all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I absolutely despise articles like these &#8230; &#160; Weight-loss surgery and the effect on diabetes | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Health Columnist Judy Foreman | The Dallas Morning News &#160; Elizabeth Soto used to say no when her husband suggested they go dancing. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to go,&#8221; she would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}