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Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition.

All of you listening are in for a great show today.

My colleague and I are going to be talking about a topic that I don't think we've done yet on this program.

Today's topic is nutrition for surgery and injury recovery.

And I'm betting many of you didn't even realize that there are definite nutritional recommendations to follow before you have surgery and certainly nutritional recommendations for recovery

after your surgery.

But before we get to those recommendations, I have a statistic to share.

Did you know there are 4.8 million surgical procedures done every year in this country?

4.8 million.

That's a lot.

That's a lot.

And that would say to me there are probably a lot of listeners out there with a vested interest in our topic.

That's right.

Now, while I have not had a true cut open the skin type of surgery, I have had some pretty tough procedures done

where they did have to sedate me to remove kidney stones. I had to have that done, sadly,

three different times. And I, yeah, so, you know, it took a toll on my body. And I know my co-host

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