Obesity Doctors Tips

A good way to slow your metabolism and gain weight fast is to switch your exercise routine with balanced mix of cardio, weight training & flexibility exercise.

Chronic conditions like diabetes can cap your sex life to a large extent. And this can impact your quality of life as sexual expression is an important aspect of it. When you are a diabetic, your body becomes vulnerable to multiple health complications one of them being sexual problems. It affects both genders equally.

Low libido due to diabetes on women

High blood sugar levels can cause damage to the nerves in the body. In the case of a woman, it can affect her sexual arous...more

A good healthy diet for a diabetic patient should be low in simple carbs like white rice, white bread, sugar etc instead take foods rich in complex carbs such as brown rice, multigrain atta, brown bread etc, include low to moderate glycemic index foods in daily diet. Avoid highly processed foods, red meat, egg yolks etc, do regular exercise like jogging, brisk walking etc have good fats especially polyunsaturated and monounsaturated foods rather than saturated fats like ghee, butter etc in exces...more

People who suffer from diabetes follow a strict diet and engage in strenuous exercises to stay healthy. However, most people tend to neglect a serious problem that may arise from diabetes. A condition known as diabetes foot may afflict your feet if proper care is not taken once diabetes is diagnosed. In fact, in severe cases, amputation may be the only way to treat diabetes foot.

How you can prevent diabetes foot
Here are some of the preventive measures you should adopt if you are s...more

Weight loss surgery or bariatric surgery is an effective treatment procedure for people, who are morbidly obese, i.e. a person weighing 100 pounds over his/her ideal body weight or having BMI (body mass index) higher than 40. One of the major reasons for the increasing trend of obesity is overconsumption of unhealthy food. This combined with lack of physical activity and a sedentary lifestyle leads to the accumulation of excess calories in the body.

Who Needs Bariatric Surgery?
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Diabetes is a complex group of diseases with a variety of causes. People with diabetes have high blood glucose, also called high blood sugar or hyperglycemia.

Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism, the way the body uses digested food for energy. The digestive tract breaks down carbohydrates, sugars and starches found in many food items, into glucose, a form of sugar that enters the bloodstream. Diabetes develops when the body doesn't make enough insulin or is not able to use insulin effe...more

An eating disorder, mostly appears when your food habits reach levels of extremity.

Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia are two main and the most common eating disorders found in men and women. One is the lower extreme while the other is the higher extreme in terms of food intake.

Anorexia

People who are affected with anorexia think of themselves to be very overweight in spite of actually being very slim and thin. Anorexia inflicted people consume less than a thousand calorie...more

Obesity is a condition characterized by the accumulation of large quantities of fat in the body. This condition drastically increases the risks of health problems. The most important cause for obesity is the intake of larger number of calories than what are usually burned through exercises or other routine activities. One with a BMI (Body Mass Index) more than 25 is considered obese. The primary ways of treating obesity are through exercising regularly and following a healthy diet.

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Gestational diabetes is a condition characterized by higher than normal blood sugar levels during pregnancy. The symptoms of this disorder are mild and a blood test has to be conducted as a part of the diagnosis. In all cases, the women should be administered treatment to avoid medical complications associated with it and to be on the safer side. Proper diagnosis is absolutely essential in the case of women with prediabetes or those women who had diabetes prior to pregnancy.

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Erectile Dysfunction is a disorder in males that refers the incapability to get or maintain an erection for intercourse. Many people refer to this condition as impotence. Some of the common symptoms are:
1. Difficulty in achieving an erection.
2. Inability to perform in bed as the person ejaculates way before orgasm and is not able to maintain an erection.

Causes of erectile dysfunction usually include:
1. Stress
2. Relationship Issues
3. Obesity
4. Fatiguemore