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Dr Jan Sambrook, MRCGP
General Practitioner, Medical Author
MBChB, MRCGP
Dr Jan Sambrook qualified from the University of Sheffield in 1992.
She trained as a GP in Barnsley, and has worked for most of her career as a GP around Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. She has an interest in maternal and child health, breastfeeding and nutrition.
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People who are carrying around extra weight increase their risks of many conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis and cancer. But how do you lower your BMI and lose weight healthily?
Diet and lifestyle management can be used as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). When looking to treat symptoms of IBS, using a staged approach is most useful. It may be as simple as eating healthily and changing lifestyle factors, or there may be slightly stricter and more specific ways to manage symptoms such as the FODMAP diet. See also the separate leaflet on IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).
Gallstones occur when bile, which is normally fluid, forms stones in your gallbladder. This is the organ that sits beneath the liver. Most commonly, gallstones contain lumps of fatty (cholesterol-like) material that has solidified and hardened. For more information, see the separate leaflet on Gallstones and Bile.
We all like to snuggle down under a warm duvet on a cold night, but did you know that having your bedroom too warm might be stopping you from getting to sleep?
