GUEST POST: Today we wanted to discuss dumping syndrome. As basic as that may sound, we’ve realized that while it may sound familiar to some people, what dumping syndrome is, which surgery it happens with, why it happens, and how to manage it, is often misunderstood. What do I do if I’m in the middle[Read More]
dumping syndrome
Be Savvy About Sugar
GUEST POST: Most of us have a ‘sweet tooth’ – but you can’t have failed to hear all of the bad press about sugar. Unfortunately, that bad press is true – sugar provides no more than empty calories and energy that you can better get from elsewhere. And yet, we are eating[Read More]
Top five ways to fight obesity
If you’re a new visitor the website and are researching the ways to combat your obesity then the guest feature below will help. It explores the ways that we can consider to reduce our weight on a practical everyday level and has some good ideas to put into practice whilst pre-op. If many of these[Read More]
What is a “Slider” Food?
To the weight loss surgery patient slider foods are the bane of good intentions and ignorance often causing dumping syndrome, weight loss plateaus, and eventually weight gain. Slider foods, to weight loss surgery patients, are soft simple processed carbohydrates of little or no nutritional value that slide right through the surgical stomach pouch[Read More]
Sugar And Its Many Guises!
Think you know how to work out if the foods you’re buying have any added sugar – and how much they contain? Think again. Sugar comes in many forms, but not to fear – you just need a little help in deciphering those sneaky sugar guises…