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After Weight Loss Surgery
What Will My Body Look Like After Bariatric Surgery or Medical Weight Loss?
How You Know You Need a Revision or Conversion
The Right Way to Use Your Scale After Bariatric Surgery
Are Green Powder Drinks Good for Bariatric Patients
Why You’re Probably Consuming More Calories Than You Think and Need
Why Do My Back and Joints Hurt After Bariatric Surgery?
Top 10 Hurdles After Bariatric Surgery
How to Stick To Your Bariatric Diet if You’re Traveling This Summer
Pregnancy Considerations After Bariatric Surgery
Do You Have “Responsibilities” after Weight Loss Surgery
More Information on Ghrelin, The Hunger Hormone
Walking Versus Running. Which Is Better After Bariatric Surgery?
Is It Better to Skip Meals or Eat Fast Food After Bariatric Surgery?
How You Can Use Zone 2 Training to Lose Weight After Surgery
Will I Be Able to Eat My Favorite Foods After Bariatric Surgery?
Staying Positive During Weight Plateaus
Gastric Sleeve Scars – Are They Big and Will They Go Away?
Addiction Transfer After Bariatric Surgery
Habit Stacking Helps Hit Weight Loss Goals Both Before & After Bariatric Surgery
Using Photos to Jumpstart Your Weight Loss
Caffeine’s Place in the Bariatric Diet
Having an Orthopedic Procedure After Bariatric Surgery
Best Low Impact Exercises for Bariatric Patients
What Is Dumping Syndrome? (And Why It Might not Be All Bad)
To Wait or Not To Wait – Buying Clothes After Bariatric Surgery
Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies after Bariatric Surgery
Protein Fortified Strawberry Waffles
Bariatric Surgery Tied to Lowered Risk of Colorectal Cancer
How Vitamin D Is Critical to Post Bariatric Success
What Will Eating Be Like After Bariatric Surgery?
Can Thinning the Waist Help Prevent Thinning in the Brain?
Bariatric Fashion Show
Understanding Dumping Syndrome
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Bariatric Procedures
Is The Lap-Band Still a Good Surgery?
Why Is the Gastric Band Rarely Placed any Longer?
Lap Band/Gastric Band
Bariatric Surgery FAQs with Dr. Abbas
Can the Gastric Sleeve be Performed on an Outpatient Basis?
Are You at Risk of Diabetes?
Understanding Your Bariatric Surgery Insurance Coverage
Will I Lose Weight after Bariatric Surgery?
Cutting Through the Weight Loss Hype
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Bariatric Surgery
Where Did the Lap-Band Go, And How Do We Replace One?
New Bariatric Surgery Guidelines From ASMBS and IFSO
The Limitations of BMI and the Simple Measurement You Should Do at Home
Discussing Your Decision to Have Bariatric Surgery With Family and Friends
Another Reason to Lose Weight and Get Healthier – Your Kids
Does a Water Fast Make Sense for a Bariatric Patient?
Navigating the Pre-op Bariatric Liver Shrink Diet
Getting Over the Hump of Bariatric Preop Testing
Talking To Family and Friends About Your Weight Loss Surgery Decision
What To Eat and What to Avoid for Optimal Gut Health
5 Myths About Bariatric Surgery
Eating Out After Bariatric Surgery
The Usefulness and Limitations of Body Mass Index or BMI
Emotional Eating Causes and Considerations
Dr Abbas Discusses ASMBS Statement on Bariatric Surgery
How Can Primary Care Physicians Best Manage Patients with Obesity?
Diabetes and The Risk of Severe Complications from Coronavirus
Is Weight Loss Surgery the Easy Way Out?
What Made You Have Bariatric Surgery?
Is There Evidence for a Set Point That Regulates Human Body Weight?
Bariatric Surgery Myth Number One
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Colonoscopy
Five Tips to Improving your Colon Health and Reducing the Risk of Colon Cancer
Cologuard® versus Colonoscopy. Which is Better?
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Colorectal Disease
Are We Near the Cure for Rectal Cancer? All Cancers?
Dr. Crean Featured On News 4 Jax
Humira for Crohn’s Disease
Is Supplementing With Fiber a Good Idea?
Probiotics and Their Effects, if any, On Intestinal Health
Should I Get Genetic Testing for Colon Cancer?
Recurring Polyps of the Colon – Genetic or Environmental?
When You Can Ignore Blood in Your Stool
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COVID-19
MASJAX COVID-19 Update June 2020
Dr. Crean On News4Jax Discussing Stress Effects (Hemorrhoids) During COVID-19
Please Don’t Delay Urgent or Emergency Care During These Times of Crisis
Healthy Habits for Uncertain Times
How to Avoid Stress Eating Now That You’re Spending More Time at Home
Should I Cancel My Office Appointment or Surgery Due to Coronavirus?
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Diabetes
Are Artificial Sweeteners the Answer to Your Sugar Problem?
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Diet
The Missing Link: Fiber in Post-op Bariatric Life
Revisiting Your New Year’s Resolutions and How to Adjust
Does a Low-Carb Help Burn More Fat & Drop Weight?
Fats: To Eat or Not to Eat
Forever Chemicals and Their Effect on Our Weight
Why Dieting Alone Simply Doesn’t Work
Five Food Substitutions You Can Start Tomorrow
Habit Stacking
Decoding Labels: What is the Skinny on Sugar and Fat with Jenny Hamm, MasJax Nutritionist
Are Meat Substitutes All That They Are Hyped Up to Be?
Does A Gluten-Free Diet Make Any Difference in Weight Loss?
Does Organic Food Help You Lose Additional Weight?
Fat but Fit May Not Truly Exist
Understanding Portion Sizes for Long-Term Health
Dr. Husain Abbas Discusses Nutrition
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Diverticulosis
Diverticulitis vs. Diverticulosis
Dr. Crean Featured on News4JAX
Is Diverticulosis Hereditary?
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Exercise
How to Maintain Muscle Mass During Rapid Weight Loss
How to Avoid the Exercise Blues
Does a Peloton Make Sense for Bariatric Patients?
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Expectations
Why We Regain Weight Following Gastric Sleeve
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Gastric Bypass
New Study Showing Dementia Risk in Long-Term PPI Users
Gastric Bypass for GERD
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Gastric Sleeve
How A Hiatal Hernia Can Affect the Gastric Sleeve
Why The Gastric Sleeve Can Cause Acid Reflux
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General Surgery
Is It a Hemorrhoid or Anal Fissure?
Do I Need My Large Intestine? Do I Need My Small Intestine?
Surgical GERD Treatment: LINX vs. Traditional Fundoplication
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GERD
How Sleep Can Help You Lose Weight
Why Long-term PPI Therapy May Be Hurting Our Health
What’s So Bad About Living with GERD?
The Zantac Recall and What You Can Do About GERD
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Getting Started
How Quickly Can You Have Bariatric Surgery?
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Hemorrhoids
How Long Do Hemorrhoids Last?
What is a Hemorrhoid?
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Hernia Surgery
Is Hernia Surgery Painful?
How Can I Avoid Hernia Surgery?
Hernia Mesh – Truths and Myths
What Are the Chances of a Recurrent Hernia?
Is It Dangerous to Have a Hernia Repaired At Advanced Age?
Do All Hernia Patients Require Surgery?
Can You Wait for Hernia Surgery?
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A Glimpse Into Our Fashion Show
Dr. Abbas Discusses Pancreatic Cancer
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Joints
Why Excess Weight Wreaks Such Havoc on the Joints
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Obesity
What Is Fatty Liver Disease, and Why Does It Matter?
Need to Know: Ozempic, Wegovy & Mounjaro for Weight Loss
Sleep Series Part 1: How Poor Sleep Can Cause Excess Weight
Can You Be Obese and Healthy?
Can Excess Weight Cause AFib?
Adolescent Obesity – Where We’re Headed and Why It’s So Dangerous
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Robotic Surgery
Dr. Abbas’ 500th Robotic Surgery
Is Robotic Surgery Truly Superior to Traditional Laparoscopy?
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Sleep
Sleep Series Part 2: How Excess Weight Can Cause Poor Sleep
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Support
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Weight Loss
Your Plan to Get Off Wegovy/Zepbound GLP-1 Medication
Our Innate Stress Response and How to Manage It to Achieve Weight Loss
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Weight Loss 101
The Checkered History of Weight Loss Medication in the United States
Can You Lose Weight Without Exercising?
The Most Effective Weight Loss Options for Every BMI
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