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...able to lose more than 40% of their excess weight - statistically, that's considered a successful procedure - while only 79% of diabetes patients were able to drop that much weight after one year. In both cases, doctors used the same surgical technique, which involves permanently sectioning off a small pouch from the stomach and connecting it directly to the intestines, which forces patients to eat less and allows food to bypass the rest of the stomach and the upper part of the intestines...
...largest of its kind - led by researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine, looked specifically at gastric bypass surgery, also known as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, which accounts for 80% of all bariatric surgeries in the U.S. The operation involves creating a small walnut-size pouch at the top of the stomach, which is then stapled off and connected to the small intestine lower down than usual; the result is that patients can eat only an ounce of food at a time, and the food bypasses most of the stomach and the top part of the intestine...
STATE DEPARTMENT A man in a tweed jacket walked into a heavily guarded office in 1998 and, in full view of two secretaries, looked through a pouch full of classified documents, put many of them in his briefcase and left...
...sugary sports drinks like Capri-Sun Sport are nearly as unhealthy as soda, and recommends that exercising kids opt for water instead. Kraft lists the first three ingredients as water, high fructose corn syrup and sugar, with 16 grams of sugar and 55 milligrams of sodium in every little pouch. "This is just another form of sugar water," Simon says. "Athletes in Florida running marathons may benefit from sports drinks, but for kids doing ordinary exercise, these sports drinks do more harm than good...
...17th century Madrid. It's a poor but proud city where tempers run high and everybody is ready to stab and/or shoot one another at the drop of a plumed, foppish hat and where a woman has just been found strangled in her sedan chair, along with a pouch of coins and a note that reads, "For Masses for your soul...