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Emergency first aid for gastric bypass syndrome and dumping

For gastric bypass weight loss surgery patients, an episode of dumping syndrome, or rapid gastric emptying, is physically dramatic and lifestyle disrupting. Before surgery, patients are instructed to avoid sweet processed carbohydrates, fatty fried foods, and all simple processed carbohydrates to avoid dumping syndrome. Some patients who become lactose intolerant with weight loss surgery (WLS) […]

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Starting your own aerobic boxing class

I started teaching aerobic boxing in 1988 at the local YMCA. Aerobic dancing was all the rage in those days and the instructors were, in most cases, ex-dancers. Being a physical education student with a master’s degree in exercise physiology, I always chuckled when someone told me I was an aerobics instructor. The definition of […]