Wow. If this is shown to be a valid treatment, though surgery is not without risks, it could save the lives of millions and prevent severe disability.

It will be interesting to see what, it is actually revealed in their analysis.

This process severely impairs the body's ability to take in food. It is only used on people who have bona-fide food compulsions -- people for whom gastric bypass and counseling would not work or have failed.

To take an otherwise healthy diabetic and remove most of his or her duodenum would cause a serious life change. He or she would still have an impairment. The next study should be done on the implications of such a bypass in non-obese patients.