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How to Laugh Yourself Slim - 50 Tips
We all know that in order to lose weight we need to eat less and exercise more - but research suggests there are a few other tricks when it comes to shedding the pounds. From how acupuncture can help you lose an extra 10 lb in three months to why carrot juice should be part of any slimmer's daily diet, here we give a round up of the Top 50 diet tips…
Have a laugh: It's proven to burn off calories
1. To work out just how many calories you can eat daily,......
By: tmhogirl (13 July 2010)
President Obama signs landmark US healthcare bill into law
US President Barack Obama has signed his landmark healthcare bill into law in a ceremony at the White House.
The new law will eventually extend health insurance cover to about 32 million Americans who currently do not have any.
Mr Obama said he was signing the bill for people like his mother "who argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days".
The bill is strongly opposed by the Republicans, who say it is too costly.
Immediately after the signing, attorneys general from 13 states - 12 Republicans and one Democrat......
By: summer (24 March 2010)
Low carb diets like Atkins 'better for blood pressure'
A low-carbohydrate diet like Atkins is better at cutting blood pressure than weight-loss pills, say US doctors.
Twice as many people on the low-carb diet lowered their blood pressure compared to those taking the drug, orlistat.
The study, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found the two approaches achieved equal weight loss and those who received counselling lost the most.
The study looked at 146 people who had a range of health problems.
Many obese and overweight people are advised to lose weight to help them lower their blood pressure.
Medication
The researchers from the Veterans Affairs......
By: tmhogirl (27 January 2010)
Edible ivory
This is a hilarious story-
German police are searching for a motorist who beat a 24-year-old woman selling white asparagus because he was upset about her asking price for the coveted springtime vegetable, police said Monday.
The prices for white asparagus, sometimes called "edible ivory" in Germany, fluctuate wildly during the short springtime season, peaking early in the season at 10 euros per kilo.
The man screamed at the woman that her asparagus was overpriced. He then punched her in the face and threatened to unleash his attack dog at her. She fled......
By: serenebeauty (18 May 2009)
Bizarre injuries
I was just surfing the net and this story had me thinking about health and safety.
This is a new twist about egg on your face- uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/15052009/58/scottish-premier-league-injured-broadfoot-egg-face.html
What is so wrong with cooking the old-fashioned way and waiting (doing other tasks)? I like to use my oven these days rather than my microwave, simply because I have discovered that by roasting/slow cooking, I can check and action my emails. Microwave cooking might be convenient but it is not necessarily healthier no safer. So be warned.......
By: serenebeauty (15 May 2009)
Miracles do happen
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8035316.stm to see the photos and hear the voice
This shows you how cruel people can be but more importantly it shows how God works- read on
The recipient of the first US almost-total face transplant has appeared before the media for the first time.
Connie Culp, a 46-year-old mother-of-two was left without the middle section of her face after her husband shot her in 2004.
Ms Culp, whose identity had been previously withheld, paid tribute to the donor family at a news conference.
Surgeons at a clinic in a Cleveland, Ohio, replaced 80% of......
By: serenebeauty (06 May 2009)
Swine flu, bird flu, bovine flu, I'm all flued out
European leaders sought to downplay the threat of a major outbreak on the continent, saying they were well prepared -- but a top Russia expert warned that the risk of a global pandemic was "very high."
"We have been prepared for this kind of scenario for many years," said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who took part in a meeting of his government's COBRA crisis cell on the fast-moving global health scare.
"Swine flu is an international problem now, it's crossed two continents, it's got to be dealt with by international agreements,"......
By: serenebeauty (28 April 2009)
Health warning for women hairiness
Excessive hairiness in women is not just a cosmetic problem but is likely to be a sign of an underlying medical condition, say UK doctors in a report.
Five to 15% of women have excess hair, and a hormone disorder is the most likely cause in many cases, they said.
Women with the problem should not be afraid to seek medical advice, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists report urged.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the cause in 70% to 80% of cases.
Report author, Dr Rebecca Swingler, a specialist registrar in obstetrics......
By: summer (17 April 2009)
Overweight- should I be paid to lose weight?
I was reading an article just a few moments ago, while on a break from work and the article was from the BMJ (some medical journal) debating whether overweight people should be paid to lose weight as an incentive. This would be on the same basis that one South Eastern UK County (Essex) offered pregnant smokers to give up. I personally think that instead of paying the person to lose weight, they should make healthier food cheaper, allow free swimming/exercise classes and tax, I did say tax (it is April......
By: serenebeauty (15 April 2009)
Girl born 22 years after father's sperm is frozen sperm
Story by Jacqui Goddard Times
A former leukaemia patient who had his sperm frozen as a teenager has fathered a baby after doctors successfully thawed his sample a record 22 years later.
Chris Biblis was 16 when doctors told him that he needed radiotherapy that would leave him sterile and recommended before going ahead with the life-saving treatment that they put a sample of his sperm into cryogenic storage for future use.
Now aged 38, he is celebrating the birth of a healthy baby daughter, Stella, who was conceived after scientists injected a......
By: summer (14 April 2009)