16 Ways to Eat Healthy While Keeping it Cheap is JD Roth’s alternative to the ever bank-breaking methods of healthy-eaters.
Pears and Apples Make Great Fruit Salad is for those who have finally loved their voluptuousness. No more diets for all of us. Just tasteful picking of clothes.
Where Do You Live and What Do You Eat is Sally Andersen’s of LivingWithoutMeat.com’s list of vegetarian-friendly cities.
Oprah’s Smoothie Recipe is Amanda Herrington’s tip for lovers of smoothies and yes, Oprah!
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Because of chest infection and stomach perforation, a weight-loss surgery patient is suing a Singapore hospital, accusing that those conditions were caused by the laparoscopic gastric banding procedure performed by the said hospital.
Lisa Beth Larsson, 43, a US citizen who weighed 120 kilograms, alleges negligence on the part of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and claims that the surgeon failed to do his job with reasonable care and skill.
She is seeking damages for the pain and physical consequences suffered, in addition to the 136,000 Singapore dollars (90,066 US dollars) she spent on the surgery in 2004, The Straits Times said.
The hospital and the surgeon, through their lawyers, dispute Larsson’s claims and are contesting the suit.
The trial is set for January to allow an expert witness to testify.
The procedure to treat morbid obesity is known as laparoscopic gastric banding. Ross Tay, another patient who weighed 160 kilograms, died last year in Singapore of post-surgical complications.
Tags: weight loss surgery, gastric banding, laparoscopic, Singapore
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Ever heard of synchronized menstruation? It’s when women living together for a long period of time have their menstruation almost at the same time. What does menstruation has to do with your weight? It’s this synchronization that seems to be also getting noticed when it comes to people who are often together. Something like synchronized weight gain?
This came into my attention after reading this article from Jonathan Lapook asking if obesity is contagious.
Jonathan mentioned about this research, Framingham Heart Study, suggesting that a person’s weight can be adopted by other people he or she is often with.
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Treating obesity will be tantamount to treating asthma if this discovery about the immune system cells, known as Th2 cells, that links the two conditions yields more favorable results.
Although some speculate that asthma causes obesity because of having to resort to a more sedentary lifestyle, weight gain, or the increase in body mass index or BMI, happens even before asthma develops, which strengthened the link between asthma and obesity.
This linkage made researchers follow through their study about Th2 cells, which inflames the lungs and produces protein that affects the appetite of a person.
The significance of this study is for asthmatic people to improve their condition.
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[image from Lara Ferroni]
Tags: cell, obesity, asthma, research, discovery, BMI
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