Something just wasn’t adding up for Anthony Santangelo. What he thought were the good things in life, especially his insatiable appetite for his wife’s excellent cooking, were making him feel horrible. “I just felt terrible,” said Anthony, a safety supervisor, who was 350 pounds with a 56-inch waist. “It was getting worse and worse, I was really obese and it affected my sleep at night.”
Mather Hospital has once again earned the prestigious Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center(ANCC). The Magnet Recognition Program® recognizes health care organizations for quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice. Developed by ANCC, Magnet is the leading source of successful nursing practices and strategies worldwide. Only 471 hospitals worldwide have…
Gerald Buckley couldn’t tell you much about his prostate cancer treatments at Precision CyberKnife of New York, except that they were easy and painless. “Talk about not hurting or being invasive!” he said. “I fell asleep during four of the five treatments when they put the headsets on and played country music. I was laying…
MaryLouise and Lee Meltzer have been inseparable for more than 30 years. They share so much, from their love of swimming to rooting for the New York Yankees to finishing each other’s sentences. But one thing they never expected to share was being obese. Or having bariatric surgery.
Monica Freyberg is the living embodiment of before-and-after. “My life before the surgery was boring, uneventful and like a prison,” she said. “After the surgery I have to say I feel blessed, excited and fortunate.” Before bariatric surgery with the director at the Mather Hospital Bariatric Center of Excellence, the 38-year-old mother of two felt she “was trapped in somebody else’s body.”
Like so many people with weight problems, Gemeli Loney’s life was about limitations – the things she couldn’t do or was afraid to try because of her weight. “There were so many things I always wanted to do that I didn’t have the confidence to do, whether it was something athletic, for example, or trying something adventurous or traveling. Life before was about limitations, some conscious and some self-conscious.”
When we think of fiber we often think of digestive health. But fiber does more than just keep you regular, it is also beneficial in fostering heart health. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t get enough fiber in their diets. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, men and women under the age of 50 should…
By Barbara Broggelwirth, RDN, CDN With all of the nutrition misinformation circulating out there, soy foods have been demonized the most. The truth of the matter is this: soy is one of the most studied nutrients (it has been the subject of nearly 2,000 papers annually) and the evidence does not support the bad health…
We’ve all heard that you should get your annual flu shot, however less than half of those eligible get immunized. For those of us who are generally healthy with a normal immune system, the flu is just an inconvenience that we may or may not get. So what’s the urgency in getting vaccinated? By getting…
By The Bariatric Nutrition Team Are you Ready for some football? Super Bowl that is…. Here is a fun Super Bowl appetizer any one of your favorite football fans will love.