Diets don’t come with warning labels that educate us about the potential risks of our ventures. No one rattles off, even quickly or quietly, what may happen if we aggressively restrict our food intake.
Obesity is a pandemic of 21st Century. It brings along with it co-morbidities such as Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Both of these directly affect Kidney function.
Bariatric Surgery (weight loss surgery) is known to help in giving effective, predictable and long-term weight loss in obese patients. It causes significant improvements in Type 2 Diabetes with long-term control of sugar levels using fewer or no medications.
10 years ago if someone said that a balloon can help you lose weight, you’d think that they’re crazy. But, as we now know, in fact, it’s true! Balloons for weight loss are a reality. Medical science has been able to design a simple, nonsurgical technique to achieve weight loss.
Bariatric Surgeries are surgeries done in the stomach and intestine for weight loss. They are two types:
Restrictive: where the quantity of food that a person can eat is restricted
Malabsorptive: where changes are made in the intestine to change the digestive process causing less...