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| Acupuncture and Weight Loss – Say No to Stubborn Fat Layers |
Weight loss has never been permanent. It always demands continuous work outs along with good, healthy diet. Weight management is a multi-faceted program and successful long term weight loss is incredibly difficult for most of the people around the world. Acupuncture therapy is an adjunct therapy which has been in practice for more than 5,000 years. It is not the Holy Grail in the treatment of weight control, however, it is effective to make it easier to loose and maintain that loss.
Acupuncture weight loss treatment involves inserting thin needles to particular spots on the skin. It stimulates the body to release endorphins, which may help controlling body appetite. They have a relaxing and calming effect that helps the body to deal with stress, frustration, of leaving the extra dose of food. Moreover, these “feel-good” pain relieving chemicals helps in enhancement of the metabolism and will power in a human.
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admin on August 05 2008 07:40:57 ·
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| Measurement of Body fat |
Body fat measurement is an important factor that can help you to control your body weight. If you are planning to have a control on your body weight then you will have to keep low level of body fat level. If you are having more amount of fat in the body then you might have a disease. These diseases can include a heart attack as well. So, it is advisable for you to keep a track on the measurement of fat in the body.
One of the essential aspects to measure the fat of the body is because it is totally different then the weight of the body. If you are able to loose the body weight then it does not mean that you can loose the fat of the body. You should know that the weight of the body will include the entire parts of the human body and not just the fats of the body. You may come across some people who look slim but they might have a high level of body fats. So, it is better to regularly measure body fat. It is advisable to keep it as a part of your weight loss program.
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admin on August 05 2008 07:39:06
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| Dietitian hired to arrest officer obesity |
Rana Parker tells pudgy police they have the right to remain chubby, but it can and will be used against them on the streets of Los Angeles. The dietitian lays down the law for recruits, veterans and top brass, letting them know that eating right can help them do a better job and could even save their lives.
"I joke with them that I'm not the food police, that I'm just here to give them information, education and hopefully give them motivation to help themselves," she said.
While overweight officers aren't unique to Los Angeles, the police department believes it's the first to hire a full-time diet coach. Parker joined in July, leaving behind decidedly less macho clients at Head Start, the federal aid program for children.
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admin on May 06 2008 12:33:08
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| Obesity causes prolonged inflammation of heart tissue that in turn boosts heart failure risk |
Obesity causes prolonged inflammation of heart tissue that in turn boosts heart failure risk, according to a U.S. study of almost 7,000 people.
The latest findings from the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) are believed to provide the first large scale of evidence of such a link and give the estimated 72 million obese American adults another reason to change their lifestyle.
"The biological effects of obesity on the heart are profound. Even if obese people feel otherwise healthy, there are measurable and early chemical signs of damage to their heart, beyond the well-known implications for diabetes and high blood pressure," senior study investigator Dr. Joao Lima, a professor of medicine and radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute, said in a prepared statement.
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admin on May 06 2008 12:31:38
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| Their reassuring finding: women who are too fat when pregnant are probably not somehow driving the obesity epidemic by programming their children to be fat. |
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British researchers who tried to show why overweight mothers tend to have overweight children said on Monday they had filled in one small piece of the puzzle.
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Their reassuring finding: women who are too fat when pregnant are probably not somehow driving the obesity epidemic by programming their children to be fat.
But there is a strong link between overweight mothers and overweight children that still needs to be explained, Debbie Lawlor of Britain's University of Bristol and colleagues said.
Lawlor's team looked at the developmental overnutrition hypothesis -- the idea that if a woman is overweight during pregnancy, the higher levels of sugar and fatty acids in her blood would affect the developing fetus, dooming or at least predisposing the child to poor appetite control and a slower metabolism.
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admin on March 12 2008 05:09:02
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| Obese teenagers... |
Obese teenagers who succeeded in losing weight in a year-long medically supervised weight control program also saw their bone mineral content increase over that period, say researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The finding was reassuring, because adolescence is a critical period for bone health in later life.
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admin on February 02 2008 16:07:53
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| Diets Fail |
In support of every 100 dieters, one will maintain their weight loss after 5 years, which is the marker formative permanent weight loss to the medical community. Research indicates diets actually add pounds in the long run.
Why are diets so critical to our weight and health? Here are some of the reasons.
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admin on January 11 2008 06:59:29
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| Breathing in second-hand tobacco smoke in early infancy boosts the risk of developing allergies, suggests research published ahead of print in the journal Thorax. |
 Breathing in second-hand tobacco smoke in early infancy boosts the risk of developing allergies, suggests research published ahead of print in the journal Thorax.
The findings are based on parental survey responses from more than 4000 families about their children’s allergies and the environmental factors to which they had been exposed before and after birth.
These included parental smoking, pet dander (animal hair and dead skin), and foodstuffs.
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admin on December 30 2007 13:56:52
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| Every night in this quiet western Indian city |
ANAND, India - Every night in this quiet western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession of ballooned bellies, to bedrooms that become a landscape of soft hills.
A team of maids, cooks and doctors looks after the women, whose pregnancies would be unusual anywhere else but are common here. The young mothers of Anand, a place famous for its milk, are pregnant with the children of infertile couples from around the world.
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admin on December 30 2007 13:53:48
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| Lawmakers protest HIV/AIDS travel rule |
WASHINGTON - On World AIDS Day last month the White House said new rules would soon make it easier for people with HIV/AIDS to travel to the United States. Democratic lawmakers and gay rights groups are complaining that the regulations proposed by the Homeland Security Department could actually create more barriers.
"Our primary concern is that they don't really improve the situation," said Bebe Anderson, HIV project director at the gay civil rights group Lambda Legal, in an interview Tuesday. She called the rules "inappropriate based on medicine and public health concerns."
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admin on December 11 2007 11:19:50
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| When you travel and take the pill |
 Oral contraceptives are most effective when you take them at about the same time every day. So what if you travel to a drastically different time zone, such as Asia or Europe? "Continue taking a pill every 24 hours," advises Adelaide Nardone, M.D., an obstetrician and gynecologist in Providence, R.I., and medical adviser to the Vagisil Women's Health Center. If you normally take your pill in the morning and you're flying somewhere with about a 12-hour time difference, switch to an evening dose at your destination, Nardone says. And consider packing backup birth control since it's easy to lose track of your pill schedule when you're traveling, she adds.
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admin on December 09 2007 10:29:56 ·
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