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Why Severely Restricted Calorie Diets Don\'t Work

Author: Roy Gutierrez Subscribe to users feed

Published: 16/11/2008

Your calories are lowered too low and you are hungry most of the time. Your bodyweight starts to drop.Your body lowers the rate at which it uses calories in an attempt to regain your lost weight. Your body thinks it is being starved. Your body sensing starvation switches to hoarding fat for...

Symptoms, Causes And Treatments Used By A Cosmetic Dentist For TMJ Dysfunction

Author: Christine OKelly Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

Temporo-Mandibular Joint or TMJ dysfunction involves pain, discomfort, and worn teeth because of a support problem with the bottom jaw. This joint is found where your lower jaw joins on to your skull. The problems start when the cartilage that cushions the joint or the muscles that give the area...

Plastic Surgery Gives Sculpted Look after Massive Weight Loss

Author: Abigail Aaronson Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

Losing a massive amount of weight is a very exciting and impressive achievement. It can dramatically improve your health and such conditions as Type II Diabetes and high blood pressure. A huge weight loss will add years to your life and will greatly enhance the quality of that life. Yet there may...

Laser Resurfacing Diminishes the Appearance of Age Spots

Author: Abigail Aaronson Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

Unsightly age spots can start to show up on people of all skin colors as they age. Beyond an annoyance, these marks, also known as liver or sun spots, can also turn cancerous. Whether these spots are dangerous or simply aesthetically vexatious, laser resurfacing can be the perfect solution to...

Natural Products For Relieving Stress

Author: Chris Jensen Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

There are a wide range of affordable, easy to use natural products that can help you get the relief that you need. Natural products can come in a variety of methods for helping you to ease tension and get to sleep ranging from Aromatherapy products, aromatic bath salts and oils, essential...

Tips On Non Surgical Treatment For Varicose Veins

Author: Amit Kheterpal Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

Varicose veins in simple terms are enlargement of veins. Varicose veins are also known as spider veins. These varicose veins derive their name from a Latin origin of the word called varix which means twisted. Yes twisted they are as they have more blood in them than needed. The varicose veins...

Six Pack Abs in Half the Time

Author: Chris Jensen Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

Instead, if you were to focus on your metabolism, with a slight bias towards ab strengthening, you would be able to decrease your body fat, improve your stamina, eat more (not less), and get in and out of the gym faster. Increasing metabolism requires proper nutritional habits, improved...

Unsafe sexual practices are common, say US studies

Author: Katte Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

Unsafe sexual practices are common in people infected with HIV and in those at high risk of infection, warned two US epidemiological studies published this week in the American Journal of Public Health. Results suggest that new preventive, educational, and public health strategies are needed...

Gene determines when puberty comes

Author: Katte Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

Scientists have identified a gene which may play a key role in determining when a child hits puberty. A team of researchers in the UK and the US say the gene regulates a protein called GPR54. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, they said mutations in this gene can prevent people...

Child cancer raises adult health risk

Author: Katte Subscribe to users feed

Published: 15/11/2008

Surviving cancer in childhood can lead to health problems later in life, according to a study. Researchers found nearly half go on to develop at least one fairly significant health problem linked to their cancer, or its treatment. A team from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas examined...