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First here's a story that describes a new weight loss procedure. To me it seems so logical and simple . . . all I can say is, "Why didn't I think of that?" Dr. Rehert
Stomach Balloons Used to Fight Weight Gain
Jan 29, 2006
ROME - Vittorio Campati is a 40-year-old restaurant chef. He weighs 308 pounds, likes pasta and sweets and has failed many diets. His last resort? A balloon inserted into his stomach in a procedure that lasts less than 20 minutes. European doctors hail the technique as a simple, less invasive way to fight obesity.
Inserted down the patient's throat, a round silicon balloon is filled with a saline solution and remains in the stomach for about six months.
"We introduce a balloon of half a liter volume (about a pint) in the stomach and inflate it so it takes up space and helps slow down the eating," said Dr. Nicola Basso, the obesity surgeon who performed the procedure on Campati. "This causes a sense of fullness, and the patient is helped to lose weight."
Basso, who has performed the procedure on about 700 patients in six years, said the technique allows an average drop of 33-44 pounds over six months. "The efficacy of the treatment depends on how the patient is able to use these six months to change his dieting habits in a more or less stable way," Basso said.
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You've probably heard of endorphins, those exercise induced chemicals that block pain and create a sense of well being. Well they just might explain the benefit described in this next article . . . something to try the next time you're down in the dumps.
Single workout can lift mood in depressed patients
Jan 25, 2006
By Amy Norton
A single 30-minute walk on a treadmill can give a temporary emotional lift to patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder, the results of a small study suggest.
Jan 25, 2006
By Amy Norton
A single 30-minute walk on a treadmill can give a temporary emotional lift to patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder, the results of a small study suggest.
Researchers found that among 40 men and women recently diagnosed with major depression, those who spent just a half hour on a treadmill reported a short-term improvement in energy and emotional well-being.
Past studies, he explained in an interview, have shown that regular exercise can help treat depression over time. But the new findings show that "you don't have to wait" to start getting some benefit, he said.
A number of studies have found that active adults are less likely to suffer depression than their sedentary peers, while some clinical trials have shown regular exercise can serve as a therapy for the disorder -- and perhaps be as effective as antidepressant drugs in some cases.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-01-25T161816Z_01_COL558665_RTRUKOC_0_US-WORKOUT-DEPRESSED.xmlAnd finally another nail in the coffin of the WHI (Women's Health Initiative) study. The more that scientists scrutinize the WHI research, the more they find that our earlier beliefs about hormones were generally correct. It seems that hormone's benefits substantially outweigh its risks in the early menopausal woman.
Hormone therapy less risky for younger women
Jan 23, 2006
Jan 23, 2006
Younger women may be able to take hormone replacement therapy without raising their risk of heart disease, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study aimed at reducing some of the confusion surrounding HRT.
Women who started taking the drugs as they began menopause -- which typically starts in the mid-40s and lasts through the mid-50s -- had a 30 percent lower risk of heart disease than women who did not take them, the researchers found.
Women who started taking the drugs as they began menopause -- which typically starts in the mid-40s and lasts through the mid-50s -- had a 30 percent lower risk of heart disease than women who did not take them, the researchers found.
The findings contrast with those of a highly publicized 2002 study called the Women's Health Initiative or WHI, which found HRT raised the risk of heart attack, stroke, breast cancer and other serious conditions.
Manson and others who worked on the WHI study noted the women in it were on average 63 -- a decade past menopause. They wondered what would happen with younger women, just entering menopause.
So they used data from the Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing study of 121,700 female nurses, age 30 to 55 when it started in 1976. Every two years these women have filled out detailed questionnaires on their health, habits and medications. When they died, their medical records were carefully added.
The nurses' data showed that if women took HRT at younger ages, they had a 30 percent lower risk of heart disease than women the same age who did not take HRT.
"It does suggest that women who are good candidates for hormone therapy because they are recently menopausal and having moderate to severe hot flashes and are at low risk of heart disease may not need to be alarmed about the (earlier) findings," Manson said in a telephone interview.
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