Now that your weight loss surgery is over, you’ll want to know what types of foods and exercises will help to get, and keep, the excess pounds off. Your Glendora General Surgeon will work with you to develop a nutritional management and exercise plan that will help you lose weight, regain muscle strength, and avoid…
Losing 100 or more pounds after Bariatric surgery can leave you healthier on the inside, but there will be an excessive amount of loose, sagging skin remaining due to the loss of skin elasticity. Lose skin can be uncomfortable and bacteria can collect in the folds. The most common places where you might see loose…
No one intentionally sets out to be obese. Not only do you feel uncomfortable in your own body, but obesity is a contributing factor to some health problems such as diabetes, heart ailments, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and depression. Your family doctor can refer you to a general surgeon in Victorville for weight loss…
Severely obese people know that when dieting and exercising fails to produce positive results, weight loss surgery, also known as Bariatric surgery, may be their only solution. Obesity is rarely an isolated situation, it is often associated with, or contributes to, other health conditions such as sleep apnea, diabetes, heart and lung problems, and mobility…
Recently, the American Medical Association declared that obesity is a disease. However, the term obesity can be hard to define and to decipher. The condition of being obese is not caused by one particular thing, and its causes can vary based on the patient.