Five secrets to age-proof your body
Five simple and healthy changes could stretch those healthy middle years into your 80s and beyond.
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How gastric bypass surgery works
Food intake is severely limited after gastric bypass, resulting in dramatic weight loss — as much as half of one’s excess weight within the first year after surgery. Chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure are often radically improved after this type of surgery as well.
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Is Abdominoplasty for You?
Why do patients seek abdominoplasty?
Men and women who have experienced dramatic weight loss, either through diet and exercise, or as a result of bariatric (gastric bypass) surgery, often have excess skin around the abdomen. Women can also experience this condition as a result of pregnancy, making the abdomen soft and flabby. An abdominoplasty, or “tummy tuck”, can remove excess folds of skin and tighten your abdominal muscles to create a lean, flat and more well-defined stomach.
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B-Vitamins May Curb Depression
In that projections forecast that within 20 years more people will be affected by depression as a leading health condition worldwide, researchers have sought to further elucidate a potential connection between B-vitamin deficiencies and depression.
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Cosmetic Surgeries on the Rise
A procedural survey conducted by the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS) says more than 17 million cosmetic surgery procedures were performed in the U.S. in 2009.
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Eat to Live: Mediterranean Diet Is Good for Your Heart
Eating healthy is the key to staying healthy and recovering your health. The Mediterranean-type diets—high in vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts, whole grains, cheese or yogurt and fish—are increasingly getting good press for being good for your heart. Several studies have proven the diet’s benefit in preventing and curbing heart disease, including research released today in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
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Human genome may reveal key to healthy life
Scientists claim they will be able to unravel the secrets of how to live a healthy life from the human genome ahead of the 10th anniversary of the completion of the first draft of the ‘book of life’.
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Young Nefyn mom wants strangers to pay for her breast implants
Supported by partner Luke Kennedy, Kimberly, 22, of Nefyn, has joined donating website myfreeimplants.com and is urging other women unhappy with their appearance to follow suit.
Online “benefactors” can log on and read profiles of women before donating towards the £5,000 cost of breast implants in exchange for messages and photos sent from some of the 1,000 women on the database.
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The metabolic benefits of exercise revealed
While it is commonly accepted that exercise provides numerous and wide-ranging beneficial effects, the underlying biochemical changes have remained elusive. Robert Gerszten, from Massachusetts General Hospital (Massachusetts, USA), and colleagues developed a set of comprehensive plasma metabolite signatures characterizing the metabolic changes associated with exercise.
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