When it comes to breakfast, most of us don’t have time to plan it well or indulge in comfort foods. Cookies, muffins, buttered toast, sugar-added packaged cereal and other quick breakfast options may be delicious but they can increase your cholesterol levels and waistline. So some of us plan breakfast meals that are more elaborate but with high calorie ingredients like chhole bhature, aloo-puri, aloo paratha with butter. Especially when you have chronic problems like fatty liver, diabetes, high cholesterol and blood pressure, you can’t afford to have either the…
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New chronic constipation guideline evaluates treatment options
A new practice guideline aims to help clinicians navigate an increasingly crowded field of over-the-counter and prescription treatment options for chronic idiopathic constipation in otherwise healthy people. The guideline, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, was jointly developed by the American Gastroenterological Association and the American College of Gastroenterology. It marks the first AGA update on chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC), also called functional constipation, in a decade. In an interview, guideline lead author Lin Chang, MD, of the University of California, Los Angeles, noted that CIC is defined as…
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