(pic credit goes to this site) 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 [...]
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. (pic source: here.) The answer to that question, therefore, has to be contextual. In the more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
According to this news report, a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that people eating a large amount of polished, white rice had a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus. Conversely, dairy consumption was inversely proportional to diabetes prevalence. The study was based in Chennai at the famous ‘Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Speciality Center’. [...]
Abstract of original article is here. The study compares over 75,000 rural people and follows them up over ten years. The study has the interesting finding that the lower the BMI, the higher the mortality. This underscores once again that the problems of rural India are different from those of urban India. A similar study [...]
If you, like me, are interested in fat loss, you could do with a bit of calorie counting! If you don’t know what you are eating on a daily basis, the chances are you count yourself as one of those freaks of Nature who become fat in spite of eating ‘nothing’, someone who grows fatter [...]
From Journal Watch: The more healthy lifestyle behaviors that adults follow, the lower their risk for a number of chronic conditions, reports Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers in Germany recruited some 23,000 adults aged 35 to 65 and followed them for roughly 8 years. At baseline, four healthy lifestyle behaviors were assessed: never smoking, having a [...]
A well known person in Kolkata called me up for helping her to lose around 20 lbs of fat. “But I don’t have the time to exercise like you!”, she said. (pic source: flickr.com/photos/ geekandpoke/2231731282/) Now, she had no real way of knowing anything about my exercise regime or durations. I took it as a [...]