A new study, however, has shown that bariatric surgery trumps lifestyle changes when it comes to addressing type 2 diabetes.

Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study found that people with type 2 diabetes who undergo bariatric surgery are likelier to experience significant improvements in their diabetes within three years compared to those who manage the condition using lifestyle changes.

"One of the most important things to take away is that there is durability of remission over time," stated Dr. Anita Courcoulas from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the research lead for the study.

Previous studies have shown that weight loss surgery has the potential to improve the condition of people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes but they have not been able to establish if the procedure are better on the overall than lifestyle changes when it comes to treating the condition. Not to mention that few studies actually focused on examining how effective weight loss surgery can be for people with diabetes and class 1 or 2 obesity.