Lifestyles
Calculate your salt intake!
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 March 2013 05:00
- Written by DrSue.ca
Ever wonder how much sugar you take in in a day? Check out this great new online sodium calculator - you may be shocked by your results!
The calculator was developed by researchers from the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. It...
Baseline body weight does not predict success of bariatric surgery
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- Published on Monday, 18 March 2013 05:00
- Written by DrSue.ca
Currently, the critieria for who qualifies for bariatric surgery typically includes a body mass index (BMI) criterion - ie, a patient has to be at a certain body weight relative to their height to qualify for surgery.
A review of data to date on the landmark SOS trial was just published by L. Sjöstrom, which I encourage anyone interested in this...
Complications Of Obesity - New textbook
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- Published on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 05:00
- Written by DrSue.ca
For a new online textbook entitled Complications of Obesity (editors Wieland Kiess and Arya Sharma), published in Best Practice & Research, Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, I was asked to contribute a chapter about the metabolic complications of obesity. In this chapter, I focus on diabetes, prediabetes, gestational...
