subject: Fatty Liver Diet - Pre-surgery Shrink Liver Diet [print this page] When I was just about to have my lap band surgery, my doctor well-advised me to have a shrink liver diet to make my liver smaller. According to her, if I had a smaller liver, it would be easier for the surgeon to perform the surgery because the liver wouldn't be "blocking the way." She also said that a shrink liver diet is a common pre-surgery diet choice.
Because I didn't have an idea on how I could perform a shrink liver diet, she told me to read an e-book by Nurse Dorothy Spencer entitled "Eliminating Hepatic Fat: The Fatty Liver Diet Guide and Factbook". She said that the recipes could help me achieve my goals from my shrink liver diet.
The book suggests a diet guide to assist one's liver, particularly the fatty liver disease patients, which can also assist shrink the liver. It gave me a knowledge on what vitamins, minerals, and food groups to focus on and what to lessen or avoid. Basically, Nurse Dorothy recommends a diet with low fat content, high fiber, and complex carbohydrates to enhance the liver's functions and make it smaller.
I think that essentially the most helpful chapters are from eight to eleven, of which tackled in detail the diet that could be comparable to a shrink liver diet. It includes a one Week Diet menu and it has a number of recipes that were easy to do. So it was no sweat for me to start my shrink liver diet.
After a few weeks, I have gone back to the doctor to see if I was fine for surgery. The tests revealed that my liver was indeed smaller and that the surgery would be done easier this way. I suppose my shrink liver diet indeed worked and I was on my way to the operating room.
