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Mar 12, 2024
The gallbladder may seem small, but it plays a big role in our digestive system. Picture it as a pear-shaped storage unit for bile, a digestive fluid produced by the liver. Its job is to store and concentrate bile before releasing it into the small intest ...
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Jan 06, 2024
After undergoing weight loss surgery, you might be advised to avoid soda and carbonated drinks to avoid issues like bloating and belching. While the belief that carbonation stretches t ...
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Jan 04, 2024
The journey of Bariatric surgery from start to end can be a long and arduous one, but it is worth all the effort. Sometimes, our loved ones can be discouraging or hypercritical about weight loss surgery or else, they may say that it is a shortcut to ...
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Sep 23, 2022
I always ask my bariatric patients during their follow-up visit how you feel after having your meals; when, what and how you are eating, and are you complying to the suggested diet behavior advice of eating slowly, chewing ...
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Jul 05, 2022
Intermittent fasting (IF) has quickly become one of the world’s most popular approaches for weight loss. A few of my bariatric surgery patients sometimes ask “may I go ...
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Mar 01, 2022
We all have heard this dialogue ‘chhota packet bada dhamaka’. I always relate this to our micronutrients, ‘Vitamins and Minerals’, we all need them in tiny amounts in our diets for our bodies to function properly, but their insufficient intake may ...
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Jan 19, 2022
Bariatric surgery is a life-saving procedure, helping you lose weight, reduce co-morbidities, improve quality of life, look better and feel confident. Though long term success calls for c ...
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Dec 24, 2021
In the early post-bariatric surgery days protein shakes are important to be a part of patient’s diet in order to help them achieve their protein goals. As the time progresses and patients can eat more solid foods, they tend to decrease intake of protein ...
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Nov 17, 2021
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin. It enhances calcium absorption, though its own absorption takes place in the second and third part of the small intestine. Reference ranges for vitamin D concentration in blood are, <20 nmol/L is deficient, 20 – 29 ...
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Aug 06, 2021
One of the common concerns after weight loss surgery is constipation. Do you all know ‘What is constipation?’. Constipation is defined as a condition in which there is difficulty in emptying the bowels, usually due to hard stools that occur less than ...
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Jul 19, 2021
My Bariatric patients sometimes ask, why they need to exercise after bariatric surgery, if they have to do it anyway then what is the idea of getting the surgery done?? So, I always explain, bariatric surgery is a tool in overall weight loss program and ...
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Jun 22, 2021
After Bariatric surgery you are likely to lose anything between 4 and 8 kgs every month. However, day to day or even week to week, fluctuations in weight may occur due to many reasons. Sometimes patients stop losing weight for no apparent reason. Th ...
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