"The net result is that less food can fit in the stomach, and there’s much less time for that food to be turned into calories before it exits the body. The vert

"The net result is that less food can fit in the stomach, and there’s much less time for that food to be turned into calories before it exits the body. The vertical sleeve gastrectomy, the most popular surgery in recent years, only tinkers with the stomach, using staples to turn it into a small banana-shaped organ." Oh, so the "cure" was to make sure his body consumes/processes less calories? And this is considered some novel solution? Is this a joke? And then there's this technically accurate but misleading sentence - "But Benari, now 44, was a very unusual patient in one clear way: He wasn’t obese." True. He wasn't obese. But he was overweight - "Benari’s BMI before he underwent the surgery hovered around 28, which made him modestly overweight but not obese." Being overweight or obese is a textbook sign of being a diabetic, pre-diabetic, or at-risk for diabetes, as your metabolic functions are most likely comprised to at least some degree which results in the symptom of excess weight. The article tries to mislead the reader to thinking that because he wasn't technically full blown obese by clinical definitions he was somehow an exceptional outlier. Nonsense. This man was clearly consuming too much food or food other than carbs that also results in blood sugar spikes (excess protein is metabolized in much the same way), which is why the restriction of caloric intake worked for him. The part at the beginning about him being restricted from "most carbs" seems irrelevant in that context, especially when you factor in the knowledge that he was already confirmed to be compromised and a full blown diabetic.