Did Huckabee Have Secret Gastric Bypass Surgery?
So apparently back in 2003-2004 Republican presidential candidate Mick Huckabee lost 105 pounds over the course of a year. Huckabee claims he lost the weight “the old fashioned way” through diet and exercise. In the national debate over obesity he got quite a bit of national news coverage and wrote a book called Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork. Here’s a video of then-governor Huckabee encouraging his fellow Arkansans to lose weight. His personal weight loss story starts at the 3:00 mark. Now a blogger is making an extensive (if sometimes overreaching) case for the weight loss being the result of gastric bypass surgery. From the summary: We’ve considered a host of clinical factors so as to determine whether each is best explained by bariatric surgery or diet/exercise. The findings are as follows: • Huckabee’s vague history of diet/exercise doesn’t adequately explain his astonishing result. • His spokeswoman gives an ambiguous denial. • Massive and persistent weight loss wi
