Published September 29, 2014

If you're diabetic, you should eat a low-fat diet, right? Not so fast....

Last week a patient with diabetes and coronary artery disease came into the clinic to see me. A nutritionist had put her on a low-fat, vegetarian type of diet to treat her diabetes and reduce her blood fats. The problem was that she didn't like the diet – no meat and very little fat. She felt hungry all the time. And she was gaining weight.

 

 

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Published September 26, 2014

Can bariatric surgery actually extend your life?

As an astute reader of Second Opinion, you are probably aware of telomeres. They are the ends of our chromosomes. Every time a cell divides, the telomeres in that cell become shorter. The more often your cells divide, the shorter your telomeres are.

 

 

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Published September 24, 2014

If you need a lumpectomy to remove a breast cancer tumor, you must read this first

Here's an outrageous statistic. Did you know that when a woman goes in to have a breast cancer lump removed there is a 15-40% chance that the surgeons will miss part of it? That means that they will have to go in a second time to get the job done completely. The good news is a new procedure developed at Mayo Clinic might be able to dramatically reduce the chance of a re-do to 3%.

 

 

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