All patients having weight loss surgery have special nutritional needs. It’s important to come to your weight loss surgery nutrition appointments prepared so you can learn about the lifestyle changes you need to make before you have weight loss surgery. It is equally important to come to your nutrition appointments AFTER your
Creepy Calories! It is important to be aware of creepy calories because they are the enemy of your weight loss surgery, perilous to your pouch, and the true nemesis of all your efforts to lose and maintain weight loss after bariatric surgery. What is this frightening foe that I call
Have you ever wondered why the power of protein is so important for weight management, weight loss surgery, and plastic surgery? First of all, protein increases satiety (the feeling of fullness and satisfaction), which helps decrease physical hunger and snacking between meals! Secondly, your body actually burns more calories when
Recently I went to a holiday party and had a big "duh" moment. Just because I focus on healthy ingredients when I cook doesn't mean that everyone does. The host couple are very health conscious and run marathons. So I assumed their holiday dishes would be healthy. As I found
"Most of us are not very good at estimating how much food we are eating unless we are measuring in some way. Influences such as the color of a plate, the size of a plate and even whether a plate has a rim can alter how much food we perceive is on
Forty years ago, congressional hearings were held to bring attention to the possible links between diet and disease. Senator George McGovern summoned two expert witnesses, one who believed that diet changes could reverse heart disease, and another who touted harmfulness of the over consumption of fat. At the time, evidence existed that
Nutrition is Key for Pre-ops! There’s a difference between feeding yourself and nourishing yourself. At times, the more you feed yourself, the less nourished you actually become. There are a lot of moving pieces to the puzzle such as your lifestyle, stress level, and your sleeping patterns. But, in order
Now that the warmer weather is here, it's time to fire up your grill. Grilled foods are a method for healthy cooking and delectable flavors unique to grilling. You can grill your favorite meats and vegetables for healthy meals. Tips for a Healthy Barbecue 1. Skip the buns: Swap out
Imagine this: It's the birthday of your coworker. Hooray! Someone brought in a cake. What you say aloud: Awesome! What you feel inside: Sigh. If only you had something else to nosh on that would make avoiding that cake so much easier! Or perhaps this is this more like you:
Alia Crum, a clinical psychologist, conducted a milkshake study to see how information on nutrition labels affects the body's physiological processing of nutrients consumed. For the study, Crum mixed up a large batch of vanilla milkshakes and poured the mixture into bottles with very different nutrition labels. One group of bottles
