As a physician you know how important it is to counsel your patients. It becomes more so, when the problem is obesity or overweight with itinerant problems of compliance to your advices on drug, diet, and activity. Motivation is really big problem specially in patients who are at risk of developing complicating illness. As the physician you can really play a very important role of educator and mentor, where you can play active role of a promoter by making your patient understand the problem. Here is an opportunity to empower your patient with knowledge. Please watch and explain the video below. This demonstrates how higher fat in the diets can be detrimental to the patients, and may be with this background, if you want to choose Reesize explain its rationale to your patients.
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Explain Fat Digestion to the Patient with the Help of the Animation Below |
This animation explains how fat is digested in the GI tract into its components, fatty acids and triglycerides with the help of bile and pancreatic lipase. Triglycerides and fatty acids are absorbed and are transported to tissue, where they are stored to lead to fat deposits.Some of these are stored to lead to overweight and fat. Thus, there are two ways to reduce this; one, to reduce fat intake and the other, to block the enzyme that breaks fat into its components. |
If you prescribe Reesize you can download the following important documents
Download 1. Reesize Pack Insert
Download 2. Patient Handout
