When diet and exercise has failed to produce any significant weight loss, some patients who are seriously overweight elect to have stomach surgery. A procedure galled gastric sleeve surgery removes more than half of the stomach, leaving a tube (or sleeve) about the size of a banana. Following gastric sleeve surgery, patients would have the least trouble ________.

A. eating large amounts of food at one time
B. eating protein-rich foods
C. eating large chunks of food of relatively hard consistency
D. eating carbohydrate-rich foods


Answer: D

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