Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

The Centers for Disease Control have suggested we aim for 10,000 steps every day to see health benefits, but most Americans only get around 5,000 a day.

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.