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• How to conquer the Plateau after Lap Band?
  Lap Band surgery is a restrictive bariatric operation, which reduces the size of the stomach, thus reducing the calorie intake with no malabsorptive element.The basic thumb rules to conquer the plateau after Lap Band are really very simple. Make sure you follow your diet and exercise programs completely, remain in constant contact with your weight loss team, have a positive outlook, and celebrate your beautiful new body.
  Published 15Jan2010, viewed 79 times

• Colorectal Cancer and Weight Loss surgery
  Epidemiological data have consistently demonstrated that there is an increasing evidence of a positive correlation between increased body weight and malignancies of the breast, pancreas, ovaries, esophagus and the colon. In fact, oncologists even suggest a more aggressive screening for cancers in the obese: especially for breast, uterine, and colorectal cancers.
  Published 11Jan2010, viewed 257 times

• Alcohol after Bariatric Surgery
  Patients are often discouraged from consuming alcohol for up to a year following bariatric surgery for several reasons. Not only is alcohol a source of empty calories, increasing your overall calorie intake, thereby jeopardizing your ultimate weight loss goals, but it also decreases the absorption of many vitamins and minerals, contributing to deficiency syndromes.
  Published 07Jan2010, viewed 252 times

• Is Your Gastric Bypass Making You Malnourished?
  The basic aim of a gastric bypass is to help you lose weight in order to avoid the co-morbidities of obesity. Postoperative dietary patterns need to be greatly modified. But if it makes you malnourished, do discuss it with your nutritionist in consultation with your surgeon.
  Published 26Dec2009, viewed 97 times

• Has your Obesity Affected your Heart?
  Obesity is a metabolic disorder with an increasing prevalence, and is associated with several serious co-morbidities including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, sleep apnea, arthritis and polycystic ovarian syndrome. It has been shown to be causative as far as coronary atherosclerosis and arterial disease, as well as left ventricular hypertrophy are concerned.
  Published 20Dec2009, viewed 63 times

• Obesity in Teenagers and Surgery Options
  Obese teenagers have an increased risk of health as well as social problems due to their weight. These include serious conditions like arthritis, obstructive lung diseases like asthma, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, polycystic ovarian disease and diabetes mellitus (type2). Depression is especially common in this subgroup, as they are often subjected to social isolation and often, humiliation, by their peers.
  Published 15Dec2009, viewed 89 times

• Post WLS Plastic Surgery: Is It Mandatory?
  Plastic surgery for body contouring following weight loss surgery not only improves the shape and tone of the body, but also removes excess sagging fat and skin. The result is a more normal appearance of the body, with smoother, more harmonious contours. This results in a positive body image commensurate with the initial expectations of the patient.
  Published 06Dec2009, viewed 125 times

• Are Your Eligible for Gastric Bypass?
  Patients who are morbidly or severely obese are at increased risk for health problems, tend to have a shortened life span and are at an added potential risk from continued weight increase. The risk of severe obesity, however, has to be weighed against that of the surgical treatment, and the benefits derived from it.
  Published 03Dec2009, viewed 154 times

• Revision Surgery- Is it Lifestyle Failure?
  A single bariatric surgery procedure is usually sufficient for most patients, providing adequate long term weight loss. In some patients, the first weight loss surgery procedure may not result in the desired effects, and a second surgical procedure may be required, which brings the concept of 'revision surgery'.
  Published 01Dec2009, viewed 403 times

• Can Bariatric Surgery cure Sleep Apnea?
  The symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, OSA, include sleepiness during the day (hypersomnia); snoring; episodes of choking, or breathing cessation, during sleep; awakening with a dry mouth or sore throat; and morning headaches. Sleep apnea is one of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and also causes snoring.
  Published 30Nov2009, viewed 137 times

• Gastric Bypass and Pregnancy
  Obesity in an expectant mother negatively affects her pregnancy, even affecting conception, since infertility is a frequent problem associated with excess weight. In addition, pregnancy in an obese woman tends to increase the risk for problems such as gestational diabetes, high blood pressure and mobility limitations.
  Published 21Nov2009, viewed 339 times

• Gastric Bypass Supplements
  The aim of gastric bypass surgery is to make the patient lose weight and avoid the morbidities associated with obesity. The post-surgery diet is therefore designed to achieve that goal, without forgetting the essential role that nutritional education has on the learning of new dietary habits leading to maintenance of the weight loss over time.
  Published 19Nov2009, viewed 114 times

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