Alcohol has been in the center of research in the past few decades for a lot of reasons. While nobody with a sane mind questions the vices of smoking, sensible drinkers have hotly contested the alcohol debate. We know that alcohol is very high in calories, and it also can affect the way the body [...]
Hair loss is one of the commonest laments in female patients after gastric bypass surgery (whether for weight loss or surgical cure of Type II Diabetes Mellitus), and is at once one of the least heralded topics in the subject. This is but natural: after all, surgeons are more bothered by complications that are life-threatening [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]