@tnp This sometimes comes with some unpleasant side effects, though. Like the oh-so-pleasant liver stones.
The docs last year initially told me they normally would not have tried the kind of surgery they were going to try on me (which has some weirdnesses to the specifics, I guess) because I am overweight, and like most others, they assumed it also meant my blood sugar was shit, my cholesterol was through the roof, etc.
...but they were doing every test under the sun for days, and saw that absolutely every one of my numbers, save for blood pressure being slightly high at the higher end sometimes, were not just OK, but really, really good.
The really, really good on the cholesterol, though, is due to the liver stones, though, they suspect, for I am a protein whore.