When We Lose a Patient
The advantage of doing weight loss surgery is we get to know our patients. Yesterday we heard that one of our favorite patients had died – and we will be missing her in our support group.
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Steak- Sous Vide
Sous Vide. If you think you’ve had the perfect medium-rare steak, and it wasn’t Sous Vide- then wait until you try Sous Vide steak. Short video and recipe for Sous Vide rub.
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Eyeglass, Cell Phones, Anorexia, Strokes: MD News
FDA recommends people get sunglasses with 100% UVA/UVB protection – so I have to buy more sunglasses. Latest study about cellphones and kids: no link to brain cancer. Disturbing increase in pregnancy and stroke- again related to obesity.
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Eat More With Less Calories
It takes 15 minutes to run through a fast food drive through and 1500 calories! Why not make a meal in less than 15 minutes, and 350 calories… with more helpings than a burger? Want the recipe? Watch this!
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Weight Loss Surgery: How the Lapband Works
The Lap-Band weight loss surgery is explained by Dr. Terry Simpson, FACS. Dr. Simpson is the leading weight loss surgeon in the greater Phoenix area.
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How The LAP-BAND Works
Diets don’t work. Diets are based on a simple formula – eat less and you lose weight, but when you get off the diet, more often than not, you regain the weight and even more.
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The LAP-BAND and Sexual Function
Weight loss is the best investment a person can make. It is the only investment that allows you to improve the quality of life as well as the quantity of life.
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It Doesn’t Restrict Your Appetite
Some people think that the LAP-BAND works by “restricting” the amount you can eat. They ask, “How big is that little pouch above the stomach?” That is not how the LAP-BAND works. The pouch is small, but that is just a transition zone – food stays in that upper pouch only a couple of minutes, then passes through to the rest of the stomach.
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