On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Lynnet Bannion wrote:

> IMHO someone like that girl, enormously overweight even at 2 years old,
> has something really serious wrong genetically; cases like this might
> require "heroic" means, but not something as totally lamebrained as reducing
> the stomach's capacity to 1 oz.

I wondered about this myself.  Even if no alternative to this
stomach bypass procedure could be found, is it really necessary
to reduce the stomach capacity to a single ounce?  That's
virtually no stomach at all.

Todd Moody
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