Can I Eat Normally After Bariatric Surgery?

This is a common question and, not unsurprisingly, often leads to a degree of anxiety either before or after weight loss surgery. Immediately after surgery we recommend building up slowly from liquids to a soft diet to ‘normal’ solids within 4-6 weeks. In the long term the ‘clinical’ answer is that we want patients to…

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What’s Better? The Gastric Bypass Or The Sleeve Gastrectomy?

Gastric Bypass vs the Sleeve Gastrectomy

The most common procedures performed for weight loss today are the sleeve gastrectomy and the gastric bypass. But which is better? This is a good question and has led to much debate over the last ten years. In terms of weight loss, although early data seemed to favour the gastric bypass, most modern data suggests…

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