Gastric bypass diet & exercise 8.31.05

Here is an article about post-surgery fitness for gastric bypass patients. This article details several important factors which must be dealt with following the surgery. For example, because of the low calorie diet low energy levels make patients very tired after exercising.

As we have discussed under gastric bypass diet, nutrition following surgery is very important to ensure a safe and successful recovery.

"With the number of obese Americans on the rise, more and more people are turning to surgical options to help them lose weight. The number of bariatric, or gastric bypass, surgeries has increased dramatically over the last 10 years. Those procedures, like duodenal switch and the Roux-en-Y bypass, now number over 100,000 annually."

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