On Jun 18, 4:19*pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:
Dogman wrote:

http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...ariatric-surge...

"In a last ditch effort to lose weight, roughly 113,000 people subject
themselves to bariatric surgeries such as stomach banding and gastric
bypass every year in the United States. But some of those patients may
be trading pounds for an alcohol problem, according to a new study
presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society for
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in San Diego, and published by the
Journal of the American Medical Association."

I wonder at causation versus correlation. *Sugar and alcohol are both
addictive. *Ho wmany of these people, freed from sugar addiction, moved
on to the next addiction in line. *As such I do not consider this
damning news.

According to the report, the increase is only seen in the one
type of surgery:

"Almost the entire increase in AUD among bariatric surgery patients
occurred in those receiving a type called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
The biological mechanism at work has not yet been firmly established,
but it likely rests in the differences between surgeries. In the Roux-
en-Y procedure, doctors create a stomach pouch out of a small portion
of the stomach and attach it directly to the small intestine."

So it doesn't seem likely that it's due to just switching one
addiction
for another or you'd see it in all types. Curiously, this is also the
type of surgery where the permanent reversal in diabetes occurs
that is the focus of current research.