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Morbid obesity can exact huge costs
Bariatric surgeon David Salzberg can reel off a list of life-threatening problems associated with morbid obesity. They include diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, joint pain, depression and elevated rates of cancer. "Twenty percent of...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Epidemics and Plagues, Diseases and Illnesses, Riverside Regional Medical Center, Orthopedics
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The connection between sleep and fat loss
Of all of the contributors to fat loss, proper sleep could be the biggest. While you're sleeping, your body undergoes an amazing series of processes. Sleep is a time when your body repairs damaged tissue and tries to return your cells back to "normal."...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hydrocortisone
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Keeping healthy over the holidays takes some advance planning
The holidays are in full swing and for most people that means lots of opportunities to eat delicious, high-calorie foods that they normally don't eat during the rest of the year. According to the Calorie Control Council, during Thanksgiving alone,...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hydrocortisone, Services and Shopping, Holidays, Carl Powell
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Spay us now or spay us later
I signed another sympathy card last week for the family of a wonderful female golden retriever that died from mammary adenocarcinoma (breast cancer). This type of cancer would most certainly have been prevented if she had been spayed at an appropriate...Tags: Breast Cancer, Sexual and Reproductive Organs, Abdominal Pain, Chemotherapy, FBI
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The what-if prescription
Leave it to some thoughtful physicians to put good medicine ahead of good politics. Last year, the Obama administration wrongly chose to limit access of teens to the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B. This week, pediatricians are urging their...Tags: Health Treatments, Barack Obama, Food and Drug Administration, American Academy of Pediatrics, Kathleen Sebelius
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Try some turkey day trivia
FARGO, N.D. - As I noticed an advertisement for a Thanksgiving buffet at a local restaurant, I was tempted. Who can resist golden roasted turkey with stuffing, creamy mashed potatoes and rich gravy, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, assorted salads,...Tags: Turkey, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Thanksgiving
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Woman takes a new approach to improving her life
PETOSKEY — This past summer, Karen Bissonette asked her doctor if she could have just three more months. The 63-year-old Indian River woman was on medication to control high blood pressure. Her doctor wanted her to take cholesterol lowering...
Tags: High Blood Pressure, Health Treatments, Health and Medical Professionals, Weight Loss, Asthma
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Alternative treatment: A look at acupuncture
Acupuncture may be ancient — estimates range between 3-4,000 years old — but it is not an ancient Chinese secret. It's used all over the world by acupuncture practitioners as well as medical doctors. We spoke with two experts to learn more....
Tags: Diabetes, Arthritis, Diseases and Illnesses, Asthma, Allergies
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Gaining Weight? Maybe it isn't your fault!
NightCap ReporterAmerican's are becoming extra-large and it's usually our fault: we eat too much then just sit around--but it wasn't Paula DeHavens fault. "My problem was my testosterone was pretty much gone,” Paula said. “I had double the amount of...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Testosterone
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Seasonal pasture myopathy cause identified
For decades, hundreds of horses in North America and northern Europe have died from a pasture-associated muscle disease whose cause, prevention, and treatment have remained elusive. Even with early diagnosis, the fatality rate for this disease, known as...Tags: North America, Agricultural Research and Technology, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Agriculture
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Understanding insulin resistance
Though you may not be living with diabetes, your body could be battling against the hormone insulin. The condition, called insulin resistance, occurs when insulin can't effectively do its job. "People often don't realize that insulin resistance can...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Pancreas, Heart and Circulatory System, Africa, Insulin
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Sleep plays hefty role in health
The clocks get turned back Sunday and although that extra hour of snoozing is a treat, don't think it can make a dent in the nation's sleep deficit. Approximately 1 in 3 Americans get by on six hours or less of slumber, says Dr. Phyllis Zee, director...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Heart Disease, Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Diabetes
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