More About Surgery

Reader Midknyt alerted me to this article about an upcoming study to compare the three most common types of weight loss surgeries. It seems that the lap-band surgery is the safest, and gastric bypass more risky than previously believed. (No statistics are provided to back up these claims.)

"But regardless of which method is used, studies show an inescapable reality: No surgery gives lasting results unless people also change eating and exercising habits. 'The body just has many ways of compensating, even after something as drastic as surgery.'"

There's also a brief mention of a drug called rimonabant that "blocks a pleasure center in the brain." But I like my pleasure centers!