speaking of diet fads. I was reading some stuff yesterday in the economist on stomach stapling in the US. You know when you're really really fat, so they cut you open and staple up your stomach so you can't eat much. Apparently they do like 120, 000 of these operations a year compared to 13,000 eight years ago. The scary thing is that about 2 percent of the people die from the operation. 2 percent of 120,000 is 2,400 a year from getting their stomachs stapled in the us alone. Obecity is set to take over from smoking in the next few years as the gretest killer.