Easy Way To Lose Weight

Doctors are searching for less extreme and less invasive alternatives to bariatric surgery.

Right now, there are 2 main bariatric surgery techniques. One is a bypass procedure that removes part of the stomach and reroutes the passage of food. The other puts a band around the top of the stomach to decrease its capacity to hold food.

Both are major surgeries with the possibility of serious side effects.

But now doctors are testing an implantable device which blocks the vagal nerve. It’s known as VBLOC(TM) vagal blocking therapy.

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If you’re overweight, your body mass index (BMI) may be related to age-related hearing loss. The same is true of smoking and occupational noise.

But surprisingly, having at least one alcoholic drink per week may actually protect your hearing. This relates to moderate drinking only.

According to a European study of 9 audiological centers, almost 4100 people between 53 and 67 years of age were tested for hearing loss and their exposure to these potential risk factors.

So what does this mean?

Well, apparently, your lifestyle may significantly affect your hearing. A healthier lifestyle — no smoking, no obesity, and no excessive occupational noise — could help to preserve your hearing into old age.

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Bariatric surgery, also known as gastric bypass, may reduce the volume of fat in your fat cells, but it doesn’t reduce the number of fat cells in your body.

Even the most drastic reduction in caloric intake won’t change that number.

That’s because the number of fat cells in your body is established during your childhood and teen years. It doesn’t matter whether you’re fat or thin.

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Contrary to advertising claims by the dairy industry, neither calcium nor dairy product intake will help you lose weight.

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There is no discrimination in unhealthy eating behaviors.

According to a new survey by Self Magazine and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, it doesn’t matter if you’re white, black, Latino, Asian, or any other racial or ethnic group.

If you’re an American woman between 25 and 45 years old, you have a 75% chance of having an eating disorder or what is known as disordered eating behavior (which means you have symptoms consistent with eating disorders).

Yes, three out of four American women engage in unhealthy eating behaviors. The online survey got responses from over 4,000 women.

Here’s how their answers break down:

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If you’re pregnant and you’re eating cereal with bananas for breakfast…

Congratulations! It’s a…

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Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?

For a lot of people, that’s it in a nutshell.

Not calories, not fats, not bad foods or good foods. Just one simple question: are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?

Let me explain.

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When compared to normal weight kids, overweight children have fewer cavities and healthier teeth.

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The good news: you probably won’t remember it.

Which brings us to the bad news: a big belly in mid-life raises your risk of dementia later on.

Here’s the really frightening part: it doesn’t matter if you’re overweight or not.

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Women who are overweight or obese experience more aggressive breast cancer and lower survival rates than normal weight women.

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