Bariatric Advantage Announces Vitamin Assistance Program
Bariatric surgery and the continuing maintenance program that follows usually requires the use of a number of vitamins and supplements. During these difficult times many individuals are experiencing hardships and one of the last things a bariatric surgery patient wants to skip on is the supplement that are going to help with recovery and a successful maintenance program. Our sponsor Bariatric Advantage has announced the Bariatric Advantage "Recover" Program which will become official August 1, 2009. This program is directed to the many bariatric surgical programs that are helping less fortunate patients "Recover" from obesity through surgical intervention, and or ...
Acid Reflux Disease – GERD and Weight Loss Surgery
While you do not need to be overweight to have GERD often referred to a acid reflux it is quite common in the overweight person. Following weight loss surgery acid reflux is no longer a problem in many weight loss surgery patients.
Loneliness and Isolation Feed Overeating
Have you been trying to lose weight and you feel like you're on a roller coaster with food? Do you start off strong every morning feeling like today you will not overeat only to find yourself stressed out at the end of the day and turning to food once again for comfort? For many folks that struggle with overeating, food has become their best friend. Food is always there for them no matter what their day has been like. Eating has become many people's main pleasure in life. Like any bad habit it is hard to shake when you have created a ...
Healthy Foods Aren’t Always Healthy
Healthy foods from those fat free muffins to many products labeled health foods aren't always as healthy as the makers would want you to believe. In fact man of them are just plain unhealthy. This is not only true for those that have had bariatric weight loss surgery, it is true for everyone.
Weight Loss Success Comes in Many Forms
This story of weight loss success was shared with us. While this person was not a weight loss surgery patient their attitude is applicable to all of us. Traditional dieter, gastric band patient, gastric bypass patient it really makes little difference. I hope you get as much out of this readers success story as I did. Weight loss success stories can be great motivation to lose weight. The inspiring stories of personal or observed triumphs can prompt others to change and change for the better. The most personal are our own success stories, and they may mean more to us than ...
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Bariatric Advantage Announces Vitamin Assistance Program
Bariatric surgery and the continuing maintenance program that follows usually requires the use of a number of vitamins and supplements. During these difficult times many individuals are experiencing hardships and one of the last...
Read more of this articleAcid Reflux Disease – GERD and Weight Loss Surgery
While you do not need to be overweight to have GERD often referred to a acid reflux it is quite common in the overweight person. Following weight loss surgery acid reflux is no longer a problem in many weight loss surgery patients....
Read more of this articleThiamine Deficiency After Bariatric Surgery
Thiamine (also thiamin or vitamin B-1) is part of the B complex vitamins. It was the very first compound identified as a vitamin, and thus retains its historical numerical place in the B vitamin family. Thiamine is found in...
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