A couple of years ago, a good email friend of mine mailed two of my daughters some dresses. When the box came, I opened it up and lifted one out, and was struck with the fresh clean scent of the clothes. I wrote her and asked her what made the clothes smell so good? She ...
When it comes to ensuring your children’s nutritional needs you want to make sure they are receiving the top essential vitamins for children. With many children’s vitamins on the market how do you know exactly the vitamins you are choosing will benefit your children’s overall health the best? As a parent and a nursing student ...
After a gastric bypass surgery, you’ll need to take a number of vitamin and mineral supplements for the rest of your life. That’s because part of your small intestine has been bypassed, so you no longer absorb nutrients as well as you did before the surgery. It’s vitally important to take your vitamin and mineral ...
When I had gastric bypass surgery three years ago, my surgeon and dietician recommended I do some shopping in order to prepare for surgery. Here I’d like to share not only their recommendations, but other things I found useful in the first days after surgery. At the end of this article, I’ve included a helpful ...
You may already know that gastric patients need to take vitamin and mineral supplements because they do not absorb nutrients normally after their operations. But with so many multivitamins on the market, which ones are adequate and which ones should be avoided? The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) has issued specific guidelines ...
Pregnancy can be an exciting and wonderful time, but there are also some definite problems to deal with during this time. One of the most common problems during pregnancy is nausea. This is often referred to as “morning sickness,” although it often affects women throughout the day. Morning sickness can be made even worse by ...
The duodenal switch is a form of weight loss surgery. It is usually reserved for very obese patients. It involves removing much of the stomach and then rearranging the small intestine so that patients do not absorb all of the fat and calories that they eat. Obviously, this helps patients lose weight. However, the rearranging ...
The duodenal switch (DS) is both a restrictive and a malabsorptive surgery. The smaller stomach helps patients eat less food and the rearrangement of the intestine causes them not to absorb all the calories that they do eat. The rearrangement of the intestine also causes them not to absorb vitamins and minerals well. They generally ...
Ever wonder, which multivitamin is better? Each time I run out of vitamins I always cringe because that means another trip to the pharmacy store to go through the numerous amounts of multivitamins. I guess it is the price that everyone must take though for a brighter, healthier future. So, which is better, Centrum or ...
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