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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Organs that control the activities of other distant parts of the body are part of our nervous system or a part of the endocrine (hormone-releasing) system. While the brain clearly does a lot to spook our willpower and weaken our ‘eat not, want not’ resolve, it is not an organ we normally want to mess [...]