Gastric bypass procedures (GBP) are any of a group of similar operations used to treat morbid obesity—the severe accumulation of excess weight as fatty tissue—and the health problems (comorbidities) it causes. Bariatric surgery is the term encompassing all of the surgical treatments for morbid obesity, not just gastric bypasses, which make up only one class of such operations.A gastric bypass first divides the stomach into a small upper pouch and a much larger, lower "remnant" pouch and then re-arranges the small intestine to allow both pouches to stay connected to it. Surgeons have developed several different ways to reconnect the intestine, thus leading to several different GBP names. Any GBP leads to a marked reduction in the functional volume of the stomach, accompanied by an altered physiological and psychological response to food. The resulting weight loss, typically dramatic, markedly reduces comorbidities. The death rate is reduced by up to 40%.

This blogger lists the evidence and makes a compelling case that GOP candidate Mike Huckabee's dramatic weight loss is the result of gastric bypass surgery, not diet and exercise.

Much of Huckabee's "can-do," likeability quotient rests on his remarkable weight loss story, and the book he wrote about his experience -- crediting his success to diet and exercise. But there's a compelling case to be made that Huckabee lost his weight due to gastric bypass surgery, something he has vigorously denied before.

At the age of 52, David Letterman underwent quintuple bypass surgery due to a constricted artery. Letterman frequently joked about his battle with high cholesterol; he even went on an all oat-bran diet for some time, which he complained about during his opening monologues. But, high cholesterol is no joking matter.

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