61% of South Africans are overweight, obese or morbidly obese.Obesity % by major city are as follows
Cape Town (72% )
Pretoria (68%),
Johannesburg (59%)
Durban (52%).
Dumping syndrome is a problem that occurs in some patients after having gastric bypass surgery. It is the result of food passing too quickly into the small intestine. It is typically induced when the patient eats certain foods, such as sweets or certain carbohydrate sources (such as simple carbohydrates like sugar and some starches). It…
You have made the commitment to a lifestyle change. You have had bariatric surgery and now find yourself with a lot more questions than answers. In this issue we look at one of the most asked questions patients have post-surgery: I had a Gastric Bypass…so now what? To be more specific, so now what…
Bariatric surgery can results in improvements in patients’ psychiatric behaviours such as eating behaviours, mood disorders and body image, although the mechanism as to why is not clear, according to a study by Portuguese researchers. Published in the Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo), the paper ‘A psychiatric perspective view of bariatric surgery patients’, states…
By: Rhine Barnes In August 2012, I wrote about my journey to hike the Otter Trail on the Tsitsikama coast. At the time I was 15 months post-operative and my weight had gone from 169kg to 105kg. This was the first really physically challenging thing that I had done in many years due to my…
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Babies of women who have undergone bariatric surgery for obesity run a higher risk of preterm birth, according to an update from a study from the Karolinska Institutet and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. “Since obesity is associated with a higher risk of preterm delivery, we assumed that the weight-loss achieved by…