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 [...]
Sleeve gastrectomy was initially thought to be a restrictive operation in which the stomach capacity was reduced massively. In this procedure, the bladder-shaped stomach is trimmed with the use of endoscopic staplers to remove the bulk of the organ along its left border, leaving only the right border and some change. In tech- speak, the [...]
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 [...]
The Atkins Diet is one of several types of low carb/slow carb/no carb diet that have strong advocates and critics. Often the discussions in internet fora are heated and sink to name-calling and abuse, including colorful descriptions of what someone’s head would be good for. According to the low carb advocates, if you consume less [...]
Okay, as doctors we are used to saying things you don’t want to here. So let me tell you something that will hurt many of you in a most sensitive place. And that is: Sugar is white poison. Delicious. Makes life seem worth living. Addictive. So many more things. But the bottomline is that sugar [...]