Reply #2: We're planning to do some research on it here

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in California Kaiser Permanente - questions like long-term outcomes, how do people do who aren't accepted for it, that sort of thing. A friend in our office had it done - it wasn't easy or pleasant in any way, but she did drop the weight off big-time. She really needed to; she was getting a lot of bad health effects from her weight. Look up bariatric surgery, that's the doc-talk term.