Pre-Historic Gastric Bypass

Writer Mark Evanier, whose biography of Jack Kirby is imminent, is a gastric bypass surgery success story. But what did overweight, compulsive eaters do in the stone age?
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3 thoughts on “Pre-Historic Gastric Bypass”

  1. My wife is a nutritionist, and she says Evanier is an example of a gastric bypass success story. There are many bypass patients who end up putting the weight back on.

    I wouldn’t mind having a cat, but our house remains petless — except for Pet Clark records, of course.

  2. Hi! I congratulate Mark on his weight loss and his better state of health! I don’t think I could do the surgery route and I wondered why I didn’t see Al Roker as often. I read this part of Mark’s blog, then read other sections-very enjoyable! “Jackie The Cat” was so sad at the end and as a cat mom i felt the grief. My cat Midnight looks like Jackie. I love the “My Backyard” section, and have had possums share cat food and sleep in one of my 2 “cathouses” in the winter,all bundled up in a blanket. They are so ugly, they’re cute!

  3. Actually, the FA way is probably a better idea that Gastric Bypass. The problem with the surgery is that often doctors will perform the surgery without properly screening the patients. The reason people become obese is because they overeat and/or eat the wrong kinds of food, and don’t exercise. Period. Food is their drug of choice. My sister-in-law died as a direct result of her morbid obesity when she was only 50, two years younger than I turn today. While Oprah annoys me in a lot of ways, I DO admire her for refusing to opt out and have GB, because she has gone on record as saying that it’s the “easy way out” for a lot of people, and she is struggling to fight her addiction. Good for her. Al Roker of the “Today Show” had it done, and he misses a LOT of time being “under the weather” as Matt Lauer puts it. What happens is once a GB patient gets down to their goal weight, they often start to overeat again. This causes a “dump” of huge amounts of insulin into their system, leaving them weak, sweaty, and ill. What the “success” stories often don’t tell you (and Evanier DOES) is the misery they undergo learning how to eat with a new stomach only about 1/4 the size of the old one. I’m glad he lost weight, but he won’t ever be super-skinny. Sharon Osbourne is one exception I CAN think of.

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