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Are Your Eating Habits Healthy?

Posted on January 26, 2011 by admin

Wal-Mart has announced a new initiative — driven by discussions with Michelle Obama, who, as first lady, promotes healthy eating — to lessen the unhealthy content of many of the packaged foods it sells. Do you make an effort to eat healthy foods and avoid or limit unhealthy ones? Click here for the story. Read More >

Plastic surgeon at bridal show brings out the brides to be

Posted on January 24, 2011 by admin

Cosmetic surgery and procedures are a growing trend among brides-to-be. Candice Williams is getting married in August, she was at the "Ever After Bridal Event" at Landerhaven Sunday. "I'm open to it, it's about whatever makes you happy." Click here for the story. Read More >

The weight-loss numbers game: Why you should monitor what you eat

Posted on January 20, 2011 by admin

The amount of things you can keep track of – calories, carbohydrates, sodium, fat, trans fat, ranking on the glycemic index – means that dieters can be as precise as they wish about what they are putting into their mouths. Numbers provide not only clarity to people trying to lose weight, but also a valuable framework. Once you know your recommended daily caloric intake, for instance, it’s easier to plot howto best meet that target. It might not be easy to stick to just those foods, but the Read More >

New Breast Lift Procedure

Posted on January 19, 2011 by admin

Each year in the U.S., more than 350,000 women go under the knife for breast augmentation, and while statistics show the majority of women are satisfied with the results, there are a number of women who are left feeling disappointed. We met up with a 28-year-old who found herself in that exact predicament. Natasha, who did not want to reveal her last name, had implant surgery when she was 24. “I wasn’t happy with the overall results,” she told FoxNews.com. “So I started researching. Click Read More >

Baby boomers turn to noninvasive plastic surgery

Posted on January 18, 2011 by admin

They’ve thought long and hard, sometimes for years, before taking the step into the surgical terrain, he said. They feel young on the outside but look in the mirror and see a much older person.

With facelifts, they want the outside to match their inside, he said.

Click here for the story.

Top Apps for Healthy Eating

Posted on January 17, 2011 by admin

Ever think of making your smart phone your diet coach? Between carting the kids back and forth to school and to all their activities, working and creating meals for the family, who has time to count calories? It’s tough. Especially with so many yummy yogurt and pizza places popping up all over San Ramon. Personally, I admit I’m addicted to Pinkberry (one of the healthier yogurt spots in town — to die for — and Z Pizza, which offers a yummy gluten-free pizza, as does Zachary’s (tastes Read More >

Cosmetic surgery helps people to get ahead at work

Posted on January 16, 2011 by admin

A new study has revealed that high flying men and women are using cosmetic surgery to get ahead in their careers. The survey showed that 30 per cent of female executives and 17 per cent of male execs have undergone various cosmetic surgery procedures to help boost their career prospects and gain confidence at work. Click here for the story. Read More >

Fat cells become useful stem cells in tissue reconstruction

Posted on January 13, 2011 by admin

A team of researchers from several institutions in Italy isolated and characterized adult fat cell-derived stem cells from patients undergoing lipoaspiration (surgical removal of fat deposits) in order to investigate the ability of the fat cells to maintain their stem cell characteristics in in vitro cultures to the point where once transplanted they could aid in tissue regeneration. Click here for the story. Read More >

“Not only will this be the next major plateau in cosmetic surgery, this is likely to represent the next major breakthrough in medicine in general,”

Posted on January 12, 2011 by admin

We've all heard stories about medical breakthroughs involving stem cells in recent years. But stem cells and cosmetic surgery? "We've learned that your own fat is a great source for stem cells," says Dr. Mark Berman, MD, President of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery. "With our current technology, we can harvest fat and actually separate the stem cells." Click here for the story. Read More >

Exercise Combats Cognitive Decline

Posted on January 10, 2011 by admin

Recognized as a major public health concern, cognitive impairment among the aging population is characterized by frequent falls. In that previous studies have suggested a beneficial role for exercise in fall prevention, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, from the University of British Columbia (Canada), and colleagues studied the role of a strength training exercise program on cognitive function. Building on the Brain Power Study, which demonstrated that 12 months of once-weekly or twice-weekly progressive strength Read More >