Major weight loss in the obese may directly improve LV mass, function
on August 12, 2009
Significant weight loss in severely obese people, on its own, seemed to improve cardiac hypertrophy and diastolic function and reduce aortic stiffness over one year, in a study that used magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to track changes in fat mass and ventricular volumes, mass, and relaxation [1]. It didn't matter whether weight loss had been achieved through diet or bariatric surgery.
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Sleeve Gastroplasty Providing Obese A New Life
on August 12, 2009
Obesity continues to become a direr health care situation with each passing month. Currently, 11 million Americans are considered morbidly obese, and for many of them the only chance they have to lose weight is through bariatric surgery. For many, gastric bypass is the best solution, but for some, a new procedure might provide a simpler option.
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Exercise program helps ease arthritis pain
on August 12, 2009
The exercise adage "no pain, no gain" has a different meaning for Clara Oleksy.

Having already lost a knee to osteoarthritis, the 70-year-old Park Ridge grandmother has found a new fitness program designed to bring relief to her aching joints.
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The hunger for a slim body
on August 12, 2009
BY NOW you may be aware that obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the developed world — and that this is one area where SA is keeping pace, with obesity figures at around 40%- 50% of the population.
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Pizza Shop Must Pay for Man's Lap-Band Surgery
on August 12, 2009
A pizza shop must pay for weight-loss surgery for its 380-pound employee to prepare him for back surgery after he fell on the job, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled.
     Adam Childers, 25, was accidentally hit in the back with a freezer door while working at Boston's Gourmet Pizza. He weighed 340 pounds and smokes 30 cigarettes per day.
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Magnesium - a vital spark of life
on August 11, 2009
The image of magnesium that most of us have is from school chemistry laboratories when we recall that The Courier's science page. Today, Dr Pauline Balac, senior biology lecturer at Huddersfield Universityribbon burns with a bright white flare.
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What Will Health Care Reform Cost You?
on August 11, 2009
Health care reform, if it passes, will cost about $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Negotiators in the Senate and House are now saying they've winnowed the cost down to "only" $900 billion or so. Where will that money come from? Look in the mirror.
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What Are The World?s Most Annoying Table Manners?
on August 11, 2009
Down with Emily Post! Don’t you wish that just once, you could go to dinner with your boss, parents, or in-laws and not act like a charm school graduate?
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More Americans on the Road to Obesity
on August 11, 2009

A nationwide survey of obesity rates offers very little good news. More than two-thirds of Americans are now overweight or obese, and the percentage is still rising.

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'Burden on NHS' as surgery for obesity rises by 50% in a year
on August 11, 2009

The number of people having surgery on the NHS for obesity has rocketed, new figures show.

There has been a 52 per cent rise in stomach stapling operations and gastric bypasses, which stop patients being able to eat so much food.

Most of the operations, which are carried out on people with a Body Mass Index above 40, were performed on women.

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