Category: Gastrointestinal

I find— as I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten fatter, and I find it’s a struggle to control my weight, far the opposite situation to when I was younger, when it was a struggle to gain a healthy amount of weight, and to borrow a phrase from a friend of mine, there was more fat on…

Bloating is one of those complaints that can be surprisingly difficult to describe. For some people, it feels like a little extra fullness after eating. For others, the abdomen becomes visibly distended and uncomfortable, with pressure, wind or a feeling that food is simply sitting there. It may be worse after particular foods, towards the…