World Digestive Health Day: what does Digestive Health mean in 2016?

Next Sunday, May 29 is World Digestive Health Day. Dr. Mearin Manrique, Digestive System specialist, director of this service at Centro Medico Teknon and member of Top Doctors, talks to us about what digestive health currently means. Health and Digestive Health The concept of health has changed significantly in recent decades. For a long time … Read more

World Digestive Health Day: which foods to have and which to avoid

We should start by making a healthy shopping list. Buying only quality products will greatly reduce the likelihood of eating poorly at home. A balanced shopping list means that we will have the right foods both in the fridge and in the pantry to compose the most appropriate menus in our daily lives. On the … Read more

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: the evolution of new therapies for an evolving disease

The World Gastroenterology Organization proclaimed May 29, 2004 as World Digestive Health Day. Since then, every year an attempt is made to raise awareness about some of the health problems related to the Digestive System. This year it is dedicated to Inflammatory Bowel Disease, an increasingly frequent pathology in the population living in developed countries, … Read more

Rectal cancer: more than 400 successful cases

The revolutionary TaTME technique reduces intervention time by up to 50%. The Spanish medical team of Dr. Antonio de Lacy, inventor of the TaTME technique for rectal cancer, has operated on more cases than all the surgeons in this area in the United States. The difficulty of the technique means that it can only be … Read more

World Digestive Health Day 2018: Viral Hepatitis: B and C

In 2018 World Digestive Health Day is dedicated to Viral Hepatitis. Every May 29 is celebrated this day in which the intention is to increase and encourage the population to practice a healthy and wholesome diet for the human body, and thereby avoid suffering from digestive diseases. Among the diseases of the digestive system include … Read more

Tell me how you eat and I’ll tell you how you are: characteristics of your diet that define you

Experts assure that it is impossible to dissociate our nutrition from our emotional state. Snacking between meals, binge eating or binge eating are some of the ways of eating that reflect mental state. Chocolate, red wine, asparagus or oranges among the foods that help reduce levels of stress, anxiety or depression. Barcelona, May 29, 2018.- … Read more

I Day for patients with Food Intolerance and Intestinal Dysbiosis

Dr. José Vigaray Conde, member of Top Doctors, will participate as one of the main speakers at the I Conference for patients with Food Intolerance and Intestinal Dysbiosis. The conference will be held on Monday, October 29th at the Beata María Ana Hospital. Dr. Vigaray, director of the Inmunomet center, will give the inaugural lecture … Read more

Obese people improve their life expectancy after surgery

The Clalit Research Institute indicates that the mortality rate of obese patients who underwent surgery was lower than that of the group that only followed dietary guidelines. The Health 10 Nutrition Unit adds that the correct selection of the patient, together with nutritional and psychological support before, during and after surgery by a multidisciplinary team, … Read more

Obesity increases by 10% in Spain

Obesity levels have increased in Spain in adults as well as in children and adolescents. Food, schedules and lifestyle habits influence our health, increasing in recent years the incidence of obesity and even more overweight. For the World Obesity Day it is important to review the figures of this pathology, which is an important risk … Read more

Obesity under control

Obesity represents a major public health problem. It is predicted that by 2030 more than 40% of the population will be obese and approximately 70% may be overweight to some degree. It is a chronic and progressive disease that, in addition to the social and aesthetic stigmatization it entails, is associated with metabolic diseases such … Read more