| Anyone who is awake knows that fried food is | | | | ingested foods bypass the stomach too rapidly |
| not a healthy dietary choice. A high fat diet is | | | | and enter the small intestine largely undigested. |
| believed to be a contributing cause of diabetes, | | | | The syndrome is most often associated with |
| heart disease, overweight and obesity. But | | | | malabsorptive gastric surgery, specifically gastric |
| Americans continue to load their plates with fried | | | | bypass surgery. Symptoms of dumping syndrome |
| food because we have developed a taste for it | | | | may manifest immediately after eating or within |
| and because food producers make products that | | | | three hours of eating. Symptoms may include |
| taste good and are affordable. | | | | nausea, vomiting, bloating, cramping, diarrhea, |
| Overweight people who have undergone bariatric | | | | dizziness and fatigue. Symptoms do subside as |
| weight loss surgery to control their weight are | | | | insulin levels return to normal. Many patients |
| encouraged to follow a diet high in protein and low | | | | experiencing dumping find comfort in lying down |
| in fat and carbohydrate. This has been shown to | | | | or sipping on fortified water or energy drinks |
| effectively work with the weight loss surgery to | | | | served at room temperature. |
| reduce weight and control weight over long | | | | Not only is dumping syndrome physically |
| periods of time. Living in a world where high fat | | | | uncomfortable it can be unpredictable and |
| food is ever present, the surgical weight loss | | | | embarrassing. Many patients experience profuse |
| patient is often tempted to indulge in fried food | | | | sweating which can be embarrassing and difficult |
| often thinking that small amounts of fried food will | | | | to explain to those unaware of the condition. At |
| not negatively affect their diet or health. | | | | other times a patient may suffer from confusion |
| However, eating fried food, even in small | | | | and become disoriented which may appear to be |
| amounts, can have catastrophic consequences for | | | | intoxication or diabetic distress to someone |
| gastric surgery patients. | | | | unacquainted with the signs and symptoms of |
| In general fried food is bad for us simply by the | | | | dumping syndrome. |
| nature of its nutritional composition. Consider this: | | | | So the consequences of eating fried food after a |
| A 6-piece serving of fried chicken tenders | | | | gastric weight reduction surgery are twofold: |
| contains 401 Calories; 16 grams Protein; 8 grams | | | | immediate risk of dumping syndrome and long |
| Fat; 57 grams Carbohydrate. The FDA calculates | | | | term risk of weight gain and the diseases |
| this at 3 1/2 starch/bread servings and 1 lean | | | | associated with a high-fat diet. |
| meat serving. Its easy to figure out how we | | | | Gastric surgery patients, specifically gastric bypass |
| have become "obese nation" when you consider | | | | patients, may successfully avoid dumping |
| many children are weaned from the bottle right | | | | syndrome by eating a diet of carefully chosen |
| to the fast food fried chicken pieces. | | | | lean protein combined with low glycemic fresh |
| This nutritional data indicates the fried chicken | | | | fruits and vegetables. Patients are instructed to |
| tenders are a high fat carbohydrate. When a | | | | avoid simple sugars, simple carbohydrates and |
| person who has undergone a malabsorptive | | | | high-fat carbohydrates and to avoid drinking liquids |
| gastric surgery such as gastric bypass eats high | | | | with meals. At the onset weight loss surgery |
| fat carbohydrates they are at imminent risk of | | | | patients are instructed to eat a high protein diet |
| dumping syndrome. Gastric Dumping Syndrome, | | | | following surgery. |
| or rapid gastric emptying, is a condition where | | | | |