| Bariatric Nutrition and Diet Bariatric nutrition and diet are important to obtaining long lasting results after any of the bariatric procedures to treat obesity, although shortly after your surgery, common intolerance to certain foods may occur, including bread, pasta, rice, red meat, chicken meat, dry foods and fruits and vegetables with skin.
Bariatric procedures include restrictive surgeries to reduce excess weight causing obesity using an adjustable gastric banding (AGB) and vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG), or malabsorptive operations, which are the most common of the surgeries for weight loss, restricting the intake of food, nutrients and calories your body absorbs.
Gastrointestinal surgeries are the preliminary part of weight loss procedures, which are accompanied by bariatric nutrition and diet, specially designed with the bariatric patient in mind. This means that all the nutrients the body cannot absorb or cannot get due to the small portions of food are supplemented with vitamins, minerals, fiber and other dietary complements.
Vitamins are organic compounds acting as metabolic regulators in the body. They are water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins, but your body needs both as a part of the bariatric nutrition and diet. Because the body cannot elaborate its own vitamins, people must get them from food, otherwise from supplements and natural medications.
All people should consider the intake of supplementary vitamins, particularly those individuals with poor diets, but when it comes to patients after a bariatric procedure, the prescription of multi-vitamins and mineral supplements during the second phase of your bariatric diet is essential. Vitamin supplements for bariatric patients are for the rest of your life.
On the other hand, minerals are substances required for the nourishment processes, and usually found in most plants and animals. In bariatric nutrition and diet planning, minerals are inseparable companions for vitamins'. However, calcium and iron are particularly needed after gastric bypass surgery, which interfere with the digestive system absorption.
Gastric bypass is the most common and successful of all the bariatric procedures, reducing the stomach in size to create a small stomach pouch, while restricting the intake of food effectively. Bariatric nutrition and diet includes 1000-1500 mg of calcium every day to develop strong bones and teeth, particular needed after bariatric procedures.
The body uses iron to carry oxygen to your cells, and to avoid the development of anemia, a condition that makes individuals feel tired, weak, and short of breath. Iron plus vitamin B12 to keep nerve functioning correctly, avoiding severe damage, because bariatric procedures, and particularly gastric bypass surgery, decreases drastically the absorption of this vitamin. |
