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says Philip Elmer-Dewitt at Fortune. Philip says that Jobs likely had the "Whipple" procedure, which often causes significant and permanent weight loss:

Along with the digestive problems, patients often lose 5% to 10% of their body weight after the procedure. Weight stabilizes within the first year or two for the vast majority of patients, says Dr. Dilip Parekh, chief of tumor and endocrine surgery at the University of Southern California, who has performed more than 100 Whipple procedures.