All surgeons know that, thanks to popular media and the hospitals that push the concept, the lay public think that lasers are exciting miracle gadgets for any surgery.
People forget the fact that lasers are only applicable in a handful of situations across specialities, with the most use being in retinal surgery and dermatology.
Now, this article [...]
Hot off the presses, the revered New England Journal of Medicine has published this new research on American Indian children who were “assessed whether body-mass index (BMI), glucose tolerance, and blood pressure and cholesterol levels predicted premature death.”
The researchers concluded that “Obesity, glucose intolerance, and hypertension in childhood were strongly associated with increased rates of [...]
So you have had a gastric bypass and are now on the way to normal life. You have a party you need to go to. Fine. Till you realise that you can’t eat most things there, and people are staring at you — someone who is saying ‘No’ to every dish being offered. It’s not [...]
This morning, I was supposed to train with Ranadeep Moitra (the fitness coach of BMI) and a group of youths at his bootcamp (usually sprint intervals and stuff) at a local cricket ground. I was late, and reached the camp when it was on its way.
I had brought my kettlebells anticipating this, and started practicing [...]
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Babies born to mothers who have had bariatric surgery are strikingly healthier at birth and throughout childhood than siblings who were born before their mother’s surgery, according to results from a large new study from Quebec.
Even as they grow, children mirror their mother’s metabolic health at the [...]
The sleeve gastrectomy operation converts the stomach into a long tube with a capacity of around 120 ml (or whereabouts). Obviously, you cannot exceed the newly reduced capacity, and your meals are going to be small, though much bigger than after a gastric bypass.
To make matters better (and more interesting) you do not feel too [...]
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If you have decided to go for a bariatric operation, you need to do some preliminary preparation for it.
1. We tell our patients to go on a liquid diet for 15 days before the day of surgery. This does not mean you can drink ghee, condensed milk, juices and colas. You [...]
This is one of the commonest questions we face as providers of obesity care. The question may be posed by a matronly lady in her fifties, an out-of-shape PYT, or by a morbidly obese patient looking at bariatric surgery.
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The answer to that question, therefore, has to be contextual. In the more common non-surgical [...]
According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (September 1 edition), a Mediterranean diet low in carbs scored far better in diabetics than a low fat diet as recommended by the American Heart Association.
Article source here.
A summary in Medpage Today says that “Among diabetics who followed a Mediterranean-style diet, only 44% required [...]
Many patients and physicians are averse to bariatric surgery for the management of morbid obesity and its attendant evils of diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, etc. Fair enough, I say, but then how do you achieve fat loss when you are unlikely to be in the 5% who will achieve it with lifestyle changes? Clearly, people [...]