these ideas aim to help you maintain a balanced and nourishing diet after surgery. For bariatric patients seeking convenient ...

Each conversation is different.” Conflicting Nutrition Needs One of the biggest nutritional conflicts is that bariatric patients are advised to eat protein foods first, only consuming other food ...

is put around the upper part of your stomach to limit how much food you can take in. Every few months, the band is tightened by adding more saline. We rarely do gastric banding. We may consider it for ...

One of the hormones that is affected by bariatric surgery is ghrelin, a 28-amino acid peptide that is largely responsible for initiating appetite (orexigenic). In a normal patient, ghrelin ...