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The United States is in the throes of an epidemic of morbid obesity and, parenthetically, type 2 diabetes. Recent data indicate that bariatric surgery, notably Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, is valid not only for weight loss but also for a high success rate in the amelioration and perhaps “cure” of type 2 diabetes. It clearly is not weight loss alone, because the amelioration of type 2 diabetes occurs...