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Why is it that gastric bypass surgery on average allows people to lose one third of their body weight while those people who undergo lap band surgery have a harder time losing weight?
The answer probably …
Ever wonder if you would be squeamish giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stranger and therefore be afraid to help with CPR? Or have you worried you might not remember the correct ratio of mouth breaths …
Disclaimer: Vegetarians will have to close their eyes and block their ears to avoid the following research findings: eating meat helped our brains grow larger and this dietary change, around 2.5 million years ago, helped …
There are fewer complications from weight-loss surgery according to a study released this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Medical researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, analyzed the data …
The country’s obesity epidemic continues to rise according to a report released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Trust for America”s Health (TFAH). This, the 7th annual report released by the joint efforts …
I had an immediate reaction when I read the headline, “Should Patients Read the Doctor’s Notes?” in the New York Times this week. Yet this interesting question is being tested out on 25,000 patients and …
The journal Science recently published an article about the discovery of a longevity gene and other newspapers and magazines ran with the story. However within days of the publication questions were raised about the way …
from cookingontheside.com
Let’s see – there are:
low-fat/high carb diets
low carb/high protein diets
moderate fat Mediterranean diets
low fat diets
low carb diets and
calorie restricted diets (any combination of fat/protein/carbs)
And there are variations of each (Pritikin, Atkins, Zone etc) but …
If the end justifies the means, then why not pay patients to take their medicine? The statistics are startling – 33% to 50% of patients don’t take their medications and 25% never get them filled …
Imagine being able to find metastatic dormant cancer cells far too small to be detected by MRI, CT or PET scans. Research being conducted at the University of Pennsylvania has successfully demonstrated this ability using animal models. …
