| Health Tip: Eating After Weight-Loss Surgery
(HealthDay News) - It's crucial to eat right after you've had bariatric or other types of weight-loss surgery. The MetroHealth System offers these suggestions: Because your stomach is smaller, eat small meals regularly throughout the day instead of a few large meals. Eat slowly and chew thoroughly -- it may take about an hour to eat your meals. About 30 minutes after meals, drink fluids in small sips -- do not drink beverages with meals. Avoid eating sweets. -- Diana Kohnle Copyright 2007 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved. .
Medical tourism
Affordable health care has become an oxymoron in the U.S. over the past 20 years or so. While the rate of inflation has remained in check for most of the U.S. economy, it has been increasing at double-digit numbers for health-related goods and services. While some progress has been made recently, it still outpaces the general inflation figures by 200% to 300%. As a result, employers, both large and small, have struggled to maintain cost-effective health coverage. The sad reality is that America now has over 45 million uninsured people. Although a number of strategies have been employed to keep health care costs in check, little progress has been made. Despite innovative ideas such as consumer-driven health plans and wellness efforts, most employers at best are doing little but treading water.
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell opens new section of general surgery called Gastrointestinal Metabolic Surgery
Opening the doors to one of the first academic medical program dedicated to surgical treatment of type 2 diabetes, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center has created a new section of General Surgery called Gastrointestinal Metabolic Surgery. The program will be led by the newly appointed Dr. Francesco Rubino, a pioneering authority in the emerging specialty. Dr. Rubino, who was appointed associate professor of surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and director of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, has advanced diabetes surgery as an entirely new surgical field-one in which gastrointestinal operations can be performed to directly treat diabetes-not just as a byproduct of weight-loss surgery. He is the proponent of a novel procedure specifically designed to treat type 2 diabetes.
Tai chi classes are free in Fremont
Through the Fremont Adult School, instructor Sifu May Chen offers ongoing tai chi classes for adults of all skill levels. Great Outdoor Tai Chi classes are from 8 to 10:45 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Senior Center, 40086 Paseo Padre Parkway, Fremont. 510-790-6602. Other classes at 4700 Calaveras Ave., Fremont: -Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Routine No. 24, 1 to 3 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. No class Nov. 19, 21; Dec. 24, 26 and 31. -Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan No. 42, 5:15 to 7:15 p.m. Mondays. -Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan, 5:15 to 7:15 p.m. Wednesdays. Call 510-793-6465. Elephant Pharm Homeopath Myra Nissen gives tips on how to care for winter colds and flu from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday. All classes are free.
Experts say obese women should be refused fertility treatment
A fertility organisation in Britain is saying that severely obese women should be barred from having National Health Service fertility treatment until they have lost weight. According to new guidelines from the British Fertility Society (BFS), obesity reduces the chances that a woman will conceive naturally and decreases the possibility that fertility treatment will be successful. The society says that those who are judged obese rather than severely obese should be "encouraged" to slim if they want fertility treatment and obese women could be banned from IVF until they lose weight. The BFS says obesity increases the risk of complications during fertility treatment and pregnancy and endangers the health and welfare of both mother and child. The society says it aims to work with patients to improve their chances of becoming pregnant with minimum risk to their health and that of their child and wants to see more resources for supporting and helping women to lose weight to improve their chances of conceiving.
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