Diabetes 'essentials' refer to the comprehensive health check-up and treatment paraphernalia a diabetic person can use by himself in order to maintain health and lead an active life. Diabetes essentials include blood glucose meters, insulin injections, ketone strips, correct footwear, healthy snacks and log books.

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Type 2 Diabetes Disappears With Gastric Bypass Surgery
medindia 8870 Posts Gastric bypass surgery seem to remove type 2 diabetes completely, which mere dieting cannot achieve, puzzling researchers. In a recent study, at the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center at St. Luke''s Roosevelt Hospital Center in ...Read More
Posted on : Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:36 PM

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Gastric bypass works only in one way and that is it induces injury in the abdominal wall and in the stomach, and in that way it changes the biomechanics of walking and sitting. It looks unbelievable, but before refusing out of the hand it needs to remind that conventional understanding of weight loss/weight gain is based on counting calories and energy balance. The mechanism underlining weight loss induced by WLS is explained in the article: “Weight Loss Surgeries, Weight Loss, Diabetes and the Biomechanics of Sitting and Walking”.

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