How Body Contouring Patients Can Reduce Surgical Complications

A year after bariatric surgery, most massive weight loss patients only consume about 1,000 calories a day. This can cause serious complications if they choose to undergo body contouring procedures later.

Here’s why…

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Children May Reduce Obesity Risk With Text Messaging

With almost 20% of children 6 to 11 years old categorized as overweight and 80% of overweight teenagers becoming obese adults, it’s important to find a way to reduce our children’s current weight and future obesity risk.

Surprisingly, the answer may lie in an activity that’s popular with the younger set: text messaging.

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BMI: This Fat Doubles Your Risk Of Premature Death

Well, it almost doubles your risk…

… but the strange thing is the risk occurs even if your body mass index (BMI) is in the normal range.

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How To Stop Chocolate Cravings

Do you want to know how to stop your chocolate cravings? Well, you can do it the same way that many people use to help with nicotine and other drug addictions.

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Obese Women Have Less Impulse Control

I’m not sure I’m buying what this latest study is selling.

Read this and see what you think.

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How To Combat High Blood Pressure With Potassium

More scientific studies now support what we found out informally with the I Love To Cheat Diet.

Lowering your salt or sodium intake is not the only way to reduce high blood pressure; sometimes, it’s not even the best way.

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Obesity Drug Damages Heart Valves Over Long Term

Even though fenfluramine, an appetite suppressant drug, was banned in the United States in 1997, a recent study shows that people can have damaged heart valves up to 7 years after they stop taking the drug.

Fenfluramine was half of the fen/phen combo of drugs used to fight obesity in years past.

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The Skinny On Whether Birth Control Pills Cause Weight Gain

Many women don’t use birth control pills because they’re afraid of gaining weight. After all, it’s listed as one of the adverse effects of the pill.

According to the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), women may be limiting their birth control options unnecessarily.

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The Latest on Grapes and Heart Disease

High blood pressure… heart failure… inflammation throughout the body… could eating some grapes really help with all of that?

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Two Easy Ways to Reduce Your Risk Of Being Overweight

According to a new study published on the British Medical Journal website, there are two easy ways to reduce your risk of being overweight.

In fact, if you do these 2 things wrong, you triple your risk of being overweight.

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