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• While effective, surgery is last option

  April 24, 2012 in Features on Page C1 Two bariatric-surgery studies published last month supported what many doctors and patients already knew: Weight-loss surgery works better than medicine alone to put type 2 diabetes in remission, or at … 3

• Beating obesity

  April 24, 2012 in Features on Page C1 Barb Beck wrote a list of 1,703 things she couldn’t do – things she “lost,” she said – because she was too fat. They were measures of obesity’s toll on … 1

• Type 2 diabetes-cognition link studied

  September 14, 2010 in Features on Page C3 Type 2 diabetes is linked with a number of health problems, but a new study finds that older diabetics may be at higher risk for cognitive problems. Researchers looked at …

• Obesity puts kids at risk for adult problems

  August 31, 2010 in Features on Page C1 Not long ago I diagnosed type 2 diabetes, once called “adult-onset diabetes,” in an 11-year-old boy. This sounds unusual, but unfortunately it is becoming more common. As obesity increases in …