Two Diet Killers You Will Want to Avoid

When you decide to take control over your eating habits to lose weight and body fat, it is essential to avoid two ingredients: high-fructose corn syrup and trans-fats. These two health-robbing chemicals are present in a wide-variety of prepared foods, including baked goods, soft-drinks and salad dressings.

Weight Loss Without Surgery a Few Good Tips

Improved health and appearance is on the minds of many and one way of improving both is through weight loss. Unless you are morbidly obese, have serious health issues due to excess weight and have been unable to maintain a reasonable weight through healthy eating weight loss surgery need not be an option. You heard [...]

101 Ways to Use Zucchini and Here’s a Dieters Favorite!

Perhaps the economy is not that great but its been a bountiful year with many of us having weight loss surgery, going on diets and working on improving our health in general. Many of us planted gardens in the spring or early summer. Tending those gardens is getting us outdoors, giving us a bit of [...]

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 [...]

We Need Cholesterol in Our Diet But Why?

For many years the word ‘cholesterol’ has become a common term. However, what is it really and why all the talk about it?

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.

Thiamine 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 a broad range of foods from grains and nuts to pork and beans. [...]

Importance of Protein in Diet

Following gastric bypass surgery adequate protein is important to promote wound healing and to prevent deficiencies. Protein is a primary building block of every cell and tissue in the body. The body cannot produce protein so it is up to the weight loss surgery patient to provide for it through their diet. In the beginning [...]

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