Its vital that the bariatric patient keep an eye on sugar grams in food!
About 97% of all bariatric surgery patients learn to become very familiar with what is known as the dumping syndrome, which is a way the body tells you that you ate something that you really shouldnt have eaten. Dumping shows up in many forms from sudden fatigue, to nausea, to vomiting, and even diarrhea. When the dumping comes, take note of what you most recently ate, and do your best to avoid it again.
Many things can cause dumping. Foods containing too much grease, fats, carbs, and sugars CAN make you dump. But the biggest culprit in this short list (yet so many foods have these elements in them), is SUGAR and SUGAR ALCOHOLS.
What exactly are Sugar Alcohols?
Basically, Sugar Alcohols are artificial sweeteners or anything that serves as a sweetener in food but cannot be labeled as a sugar since it isnt pure sugar.
Sugar Alcohols may not add calories (as real sugar does) to your body, BUT they DO ACT like sugar in the sense they will make the bariatric patient DUMP as if they partook of real sugar. On average, the bariatric patient cannot tolerate more than 12...
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