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Gastric bypass surgery has become a popular surgical procedure in the last 5 years as a radical option for clinically obese patients to manage weight loss. During this time several notable celebrities have undergone this procedure such as Carnie Wilson, Al Roker, … and ….. With their physical transformation being televised to the world has contributed to the rising mainstream interest in this surgical weigh loss procedure.
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Gastric Bypass Surgery Alternative
I am considering Gastric bypass surgery because I am overweight, in fact I am a least 100 pounds over my ideal weight making me obese. I have tried the Atkins diet and had some success but I gained the weight right back in just over a month.
I have tried diet after diet with little to no success; so gastric bypass surgery is definitely something that someone in my position should at least consider.
After some research, I found that gastric bypass surgery is very dangerous, several ...
Author: Jon Yarbrough
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Get MAD!
Everyone falls somewhere from 0 to 100 in terms of their commitments
to their health, business and personal lives. Let’s look at this
from a business standpoint. What type of a person would have a
low level commitment to the results that they achieve?
Many times, this is a second income producer. This person has
a spouse who brings in a great income. They have school children
who come home from school at 3:00 pm. They are not going to be
out doing presentations, sa ...
Author: Bob Davies
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Garlic Compound Allicin Prevents Chronic Pulmonary Hypertension
A study suggested that eating two cloves of raw garlic a day could protect against a severe form of pulmonary hypertension. The study was performed on rats. A small dose of monocrotalline was used on rats to induce vasoconstriction of the pulmonary arteries. Within three weeks, the control group of rats developed chronic pulmonary hypertension with pulmonary arterial pressure markedly increased while the group pf rats that received small doses of allicin, an active metabolite from garlic, in ...
Author: Dr. John Roberts
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Garlic As A Second Language
"Three nickels will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat." ...
Author: Marjorie Dorfman
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Garlic
Garlic (Allium sativum) has been used for centuries for both cooking and medicinal purposes. Known as the ‘stinking rose’ and Russian penicillin, its medicinal purposes have been documented for centuries and have always been a popular remedy for colds, coughs, and sore throats. Garlic was used in World War I and World War II to cure many diseases and because it is a potent antiseptic. Garlic is universally known for its health benefits. It is an excellent source of phytochemicals and contains ...
Author: Gwen Stewart
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Functional Foods Are Becoming More Popular...
Established in 1989 by Stephen DeFelice, “Foundation for Innovation in Medicine” defined “Nutraceutical”, as a food, dietary suppplement, or medical food that has a medical or health benefit, including the prevention and treatment of disease. Today, it is hard to separate the definition of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. In 2002, the Nutraceutical or Functional Food industry had evolved into a lucrative 20.2 billion dollar a year market, and is here to stay.
According to a Business ...
Author: D. S. Epperson
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Discount Health Plans: Filling The Gap
NEWS FROM MEDPRIME... DISCOUNT HEALTH PLANS: FILLING THE GAP
The health insurance crisis is growing in severity. With current estimates that 15.2 percent of the population, or 43.6 million people are without health insurance coverage, companies and individuals are starting to look at cost effective, innovative solutions to alleviate the problem.
“Discount health coverage is becoming increasingly popular because it provides uninsured individuals with a way to receive health care services ...
Author: Geoff Caplan
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Gain An Advantage Over Your Competition By Controlling The Cost Of Your Health Insurance
As many of us expect, the New Year will bring both tremendous challenges and opportunities for all of us both personally and professionally. Employers continue to face the major challenge of controlling the cost of their health insurance and other employee benefit programs. Organizations that can best get a handle on the cost of their employee benefit programs have an excellent opportunity to gain an advantage over their competition.
What are some practical ways to control the cost of y ...
Author: Michael Ertel
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Five Steps to Better Employee Management
Hiring employees is a huge responsibility. Before hiring anyone,
be sure to carefully analyze your needs in terms of extra
assistance.
Once you’ve gotten through the hiring process, there’s still much
more you must do now that you’ve become an employer. If you’re
like most small business owners, you just don’t have time to do
all you’re supposed to be doing when it comes to managing your
employees.
The article aims to outline five steps you can take right ...
Author: Cavyl Stewart
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Planning Stress Management
Deadlines at work, demanding bosses, bills to be paid at home, kids demanding for time and attention, changes in the environment, etc. AAARRRRGH. These are the realities of everyday living that people in an industrialized world have to constantly contend with, if these factors are not handled properly this will lead to stress. Stress is the wear and tear the body experiences as people adjust to the ever-changing environment. It is relative to every individual. What may be considered as stressful ...
Author: EMomsFitness.com
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Clearing the Air on What to Look for in an Air Purifier
If you are dedicated to improving the indoor air quality of your home, you’re aware that there are certain steps you need to take to reduce the amount of allergens and airborne particles. Two of these, source control and ventilation, you may have already addressed. But the third, finding a good air purifier, can be confusing if you aren’t sure what to look for in this type of home appliance.
Fortunately, once you understand the basic types of air cleaners and how they work it becomes e ...
Author: Lori Wilkerson
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How To Weed Out Allergy Attacks While Gardening
(NC)-Did you know that gardening is the second most popular physical activity for Canadians? According to the experts, all that pulling and digging makes your heart, lungs and muscles strong. Stretching and bending increases your flexibility. It's good for the soul. There's no better feeling than watching a seedling burst from a tiny seed.
Gardening can give you constant rewards such as fresh vegetables or beautiful flowers and a well cared for lawn is a great source of pride.
For garde ...
Author: News Canada
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Benefits of a Virtual Top Doctor Consultant
Looking for the best doctor to suite your medical needs can be a problem, especially if you don’t have time and you need to research the doctor’s credentials. Whether you’re in urgent need of help, or just need a second opinion, I will show you how to access all the information you need – through the Internet’s Virtual Top Doctor Consultant.
Information on Doctors’ Credentials Many organizations house comprehensive credentials, such as licensure, status and so forth. These organi ...
Author: Hugo Gallegos
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Beneficial Devices to Prevent Sinus Infections
One of the main causes of sinus infection is cause and triggered by a polluted air that we breathe. Almost every corner of the space we move in is affected and was contaminated by air pollutants that in serious cases can contain harsh elements that can give a greater possibility of causing sinus infection. Even offices, motels, restaurants and shops including apartments, warehouses, laboratories, dark rooms and production areas is not anymore a pollutant free. But now devices are invented to hel ...
Author: Marlon D. Ludovice
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Belly Fat and Cellulite Realities and Remedies
About Consumer products:
As a scientist coming from the drug industry and skincare industry I find it interesting how companies exploit human insecurities. We all have fat cells which store fat; our bodies are designed to do that. While society today may perceive belly fat and cellulite as unattractive it is a fact of life. Most marketers want to make that promise of a miracle diet, exercise routine, treatment, pill or cream... Isn't it time you stop trusting those miracle cures which pro ...
Author: George Majewski
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Mesothelioma - The Largest Man Made Epidemic
It is documented that Australia had the highest per capita use of asbestos in the world from the 1950’s until the 1970’s. As a tragic consequence, Australia now has the highest per capita incidence of mesothelioma in the world. With more than 500 Australians contracting mesothelioma per year, it is estimated that up to 18,000 Australians will die from this asbestos related cancer by the year 2020.
Despite the growing awareness of the dangers of asbestos, there are many people who have n ...
Author: Lorraine Kember
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Benefits of Human Genome Project
Rapid progress in genome science and a glimpse into its potential applications have spurred observers to predict that biology will be the foremost science of the 21st century. Technology and resources generated by the Human Genome Project and other genomics research are already having a major impact on research across the life sciences. The potential for commercial development of genomics research presents U.S. industry with a wealth of opportunities, and sales of DNA-based products and technolo ...
Author: Wong Hon Long
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Beryllium The New Asbestos?
It was American workers on the world's first atomic bomb who became the first industrial victims of beryllium, a rare but especially light, stable and strong metal whose toxic dust can kill those who breathe it.
Now Seafarers doing ship maintenance and have used Jasons De-rusting and de-scaling guns (also known as J-gun or Jasons pistol) raise concerns about exposure to beryllium.
Unlike other metals, beryllium does not spark and was therefore used on tanker ships containing fuel. ...
Author: Richard Wassell
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Benefits Tailored to the Changing Needs of Canadians
Increasingly, traditional benefits packages are disappearing from the Canadian business landscape. As the face of the Canadian workforce continually changes, companies are finding it necessary to address these shifts. The reality for many employers is that it is becoming more and more difficult to recruit workers if they are not able to offer an attractive benefits package. It is not simply enough to offer affordable health insurance; there must also be the option to choose. Today, many Canadian ...
Author: Anna Dorbyk
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Biggest Budget Blunders
Does your budget never seem to balance the way it should? Are you constantly digging into the savings to make ends meet?
If you find that your budget isn't doing the job, then it's time to take a good look at essential components you might be missing or you have not allowed sufficiently for.
Some of the biggest budget blunders are . . . . . .
1. Failure to plan for inevitable expenses
We all have irregular expenses that we naively refer to a ...
Author: Cheryl Johnson
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Best Diet Plan Available
Best Diet Plan Available: Diet Fads—Forget about ‘Em
Another fad "best diet" bites the dust. Adkins Company filed for bankruptcy recently after making a huge impact on the American diet scene. Why did it fail? People used it and found it didn't work long term.
This should be no surprise to anyone familiar with what our bodies need to function, and be well. Diet fads are just that—fads. They do not tend to stick around long because sooner or later people realize that they simply do not w ...
Author: Martin Harshberger
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BlogoCentric Communication: The Next Great Event in Social Evolution
Here is a pretty cool lesson in the structure and travel of information in the Blogosphere (that's bloggers on the Internet talking to each other about each other). If you haven't read the book The Tipping Point yet, then you are really missing something because it sets the foundation for how future electronic communications are going to happen in the future.
Using The Tipping Point definitions, there are four types of people that historically served to unleash a social epidemic or an " ...
Author: Joshua Minton
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Becoming a Diabetes Expert
I am a diabetes expert. No I’m not a doctor or a nurse. I am a mom. A mom to a 13 year old girl named Ashley who has Juvenile Diabetes. Ashley was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes just before her fifth birthday. She went into a diabetic coma and almost died. None of that would have happened if I had known the warning signs. In this article I am going to give you some information on diabetes and the warning signs.
There are two types of Diabetes. Type I - Juvenile Diabetes and Type II - ...
Author: Kimberly Advent
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Beat High Prescription Drug Prices
Anyone who's been to the pharmacy to fill a prescription lately is well aware that prices on prescription drugs have gone through the stratosphere. But there are steps you can take immediately to reduce your expenses in this area. Moreover, there are long-term actions you can take to create an atmosphere in which such high prices cannot flourish. This week and next, we'll discuss these steps. 1. Stay well. You know the drill.
Diet. Eat more live food. The best kind comes from your own yard ...
Author: Phyllis Staff, Ph.D.
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Auto Loans: Don’t Dig a Money Pit in Your Garage
Choose the wrong auto loan and you might drastically increase the chances of defaulting and losing your car. Find out step-by-step how to avoid a money pit.
Car loans are certainly less costly than home mortgages, student loans, or other kinds of loans. So why do so many people end up defaulting and losing their cars? Find out these hidden dangers:
Biggest Hidden Car Loan Danger: The Inherent Money Pit
Unlike home mortgages, student loans or other big-ticket loans, c ...
Author: Joel Walsh
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Atkins Diet Yes or No
Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.
As of now, January 2005, more than half of all north Americans are struggling with obesity. The “quick fix” for “fat” for the last 40+ years, becoming ever more popular, has become the Atkins Diet. The Atkins Diet was first po ...
Author: Loring Windblad
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Mesothelioma or Asbestos Cancer
Mesothelioma: What is it?
Mesothelioma is a malignant cancerous disease of the cells lining the patient's body cavities such as chest, abdominal region or the area surrounding the heart. It is thought to be associated with exposure to asbestos, and this asbestos association has been documented in 70-80% of all mesothelioma cases. Asbestos cancer or mesothelioma is very difficult to assess and diagnose consistently. The time between exposure and the onset of the disease, and the rate of ...
Author: Mike Plank
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Beat Your Competition By Controlling The Cost Of Your Health Insurance
As many of us expect, the New Year will bring both tremendous challenges and opportunities for all of us both personally and professionally. Employers continue to face the major challenge of controlling the cost of their health insurance and other employee benefit programs. Organizations that can best get a handle on the cost of their employee benefit programs have an excellent opportunity to gain an advantage over their competition.
What are some practical ways to control the cost of you ...
Author: Michael Ertel
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Baby Expense: What To Do When Baby
As you probably know, baby expense should be high on your list of things to plan for, before the baby comes. There is no cheap way to have and raise a baby: it takes sweat, work, lots of cash, patience, and more to have a happy, healthy baby. Some studies suggest that you will spend anywhere between $150,000 and $200,000 for your kids by the time they are 18 years old, not including private schools, special lessons, or college.
But if you waited until you had enough money, time and ener ...
Author: Adriana Copaceanu
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Be Nutrition Savvy: Seven Simple Ways to Eat Healthy (with Strawberry Orange Sorbet recipe)
The key to better health is learning the difference between healthy and unhealthy nutrients. The choices we make greatly affect our health. Making a few simple healthy and nutritious changes in our dietary choices can have a profound and positive impact on our health, well-being, energy levels and life span. For instance . . . - Healthy proteins provide the amino acids our bodies require to build and repair lean body mass (like muscles, skin, hair and nails), and are low in saturated fa ...
Author: Monique N. Gilbert, B.Sc.
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Bankruptcy: Who is to Blame?
If you are considering bankruptcy as a solution to your financial problems, you are not alone. Bankruptcy is on the rise in this country as consumer debt piles higher and higher. Some people blame the creditors, making it too easy for most consumers to obtain credit. But creditors would argue that consumers have no sense of self control, taking on debt that they aren’t sure they can repay. In reality, there are many different reasons that people file for bankruptcy.
Unemployment often r ...
Author: Tim Gorman
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Mesothelioma Book - Review
"Lean on Me" Cancer through a carer's eyes Lorraine Kember (2003) 130pp.ISBN 0 646 49969 6
As Janet Craven, palliative care nurse, and Andrew Dean, palliative care physician note in their respective forwards to this book, Lean on Me is a unique and intensely personal description of a writer's responses to her husband Brian's diagnosis, treatments and final death from mesothelioma. The book also provides useful discription of the nature of pain, the usefulness of certain drugs, an ...
Author: Lorraine Kember
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Mesothelioma Cancer
Mesothelioma Cancer
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Mesothelioma is a type of cancer involving mesothelial tissues of body organs usually
lungs or abdominal. It is of ...
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Blood Pressure Monitor – A Guide to Choosing Blood Pressure Monitors
Trying to choose a blood pressure monitor for use at home can seem bewildering. There is a wide range of blood pressure monitor machines available - all of them claiming to have advantages over each other. So - how do you choose a blood pressure monitor?
Do you need to monitor blood pressure at home?
This is really the first question that you need to ask yourself. Do you really need to check your blood pressure at home on a regular basis or is it enough to have your doctor ...
Author: Gordon Cameron
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Body Fat Distribution Factors
Most men and women put on weight differently. But on what makes fat settle in a preferential way, there is little evidence.
Scientists ascertained that the specific body shapes are: the android shape, or apple shape, common among men (fat deposits on the middle section of the body, mostly on the abdomen) and the gynoid, or pear shape, more common among women (fat deposited on hips and bottom). There is also the third type of body shape: the ovoid shape, not differentiating between men and ...
Author: Laura Ciocan
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Body Piercing Aftercare & Healing Essentials
The most important thing to keep in mind after your body piercing has been performed is that you have essentially just sustained an open wound, and you should be caring for it exactly like you would a surgical wound or injury. That is, with the same kind of care, cleanliness and attention that you would to a serious injury to make sure that you don’t scar or get an infection. There are two different types of body piercings to consider: non-oral and oral.
Non-oral body piercing ...
Author: Lucy P. Roberts
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Managing Cravings with EFT
There are several ways to manage cravings. You can:
Attempt to stop eating the food you crave entirely (out of sight
out of mind).
Modify your eating habits around a particular food, i.e. cut back
on the quantity or how often you indulge.
Use EFT to end the attachment you have to this particular food.
1. Stop Eating the Food you Crave
Eliminating the offending food entirely is rarely successful. We
can only limit ourselves for so long before we go crazy, eating
Author: Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP
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Maximizing Email Security ROI: Part III - No More Mr. Nice Guy: Enforcing E-Mail Policy
This is the third of a five-part series on Maximizing E-mail Security ROI.
E-mail is an easy, cheap and readily available form of communication. It’s a great tool for businesses, but without proper safeguards in place to regulate the information transmitted it can also be a potential threat. An effective e-mail policy should be all-encompassing, helping organizations comply with federal regulations, protect intellectual property and prevent offensive materials from being t ...
Author: CipherTrust
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Medical Alarms
Today, when there is a lot of need for Medical Alarms for the elderly people, our research resulted in this brief article, which aims to summarize what major companies are out there, and what kind of medical alarms products they offer. Medical Alarm, or they are also referred as Medical Alert, is an small personal emergency alarm device that is monitored 24/7.
The good thing about Medical Alarms devices is that they allow independence, security and fast response at the press of a panic but ...
Author: eMaxHealth.com
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MEDICAL BANKRUPTCIES: WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF
First the bad news: about 2,000,000 personal bankruptcies each year are caused by unexpected medical expenses. Of all those people, 1,500,000 have (or had) health insurance before they ran into difficult financial straights. But wait a minute. Isn't the whole idea behind health insurance - security? The financial security that comes from knowing that you're covered if something goes wrong with your body? You say you're covered, but what if your medical "situation" exceeds your policy limits? ...
Author: David Lear
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MALAYSIA: An Asian Retirement Paradise
Asia's best-kept secret for expatriates, Malaysia has a vibrant mix of foreign and indigenous tribal cultures, creating a veritable melting pot of peoples, traditions and religions.
A sizable enclave of foreigners (Brits, Americans, Australians, and Canadians) live full time or maintain holiday homes in Malaysia, and you'll find that just about everybody speaks English, since its compulsory in local schools.
Not only are three world-class playgrounds (Thailand, Bali, and the Phili ...
Author: Shannon Roxborough
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