I am going to a big family wedding in 10 days and a big cyst has come up on my face. I just know it will still be there on the day. Can I do anything to get rid of it?

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It’s that time of year where our weekends may include a wedding of a dear friend or family member but a thought that seems to cross our minds is – I need to lose weight! I must admit I’ve been to quite a few weddings before but never has the invitation…

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By keeping a record of what, when and where you eat, and how you feel each time, you can learn a lot about your eating habits. Daily food records give you clues to your personal triggers to eating, and you can also use your diary to identify dietary goals you may…

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Psoriasis is a widespread skin disorder that can have a very detrimental effect on the lives of people who are afflicted by it. Although considered to be a non-contagious and a non-life threatening disease, psoriasis can significantly have a profound effect on a person’s quality of life and soc… Read full post »

Doctors know how to suppress the immune system to prevent it from rejecting transplanted organs such as hearts and kidneys. Could these immuno-suppressive drugs be used in hair loss treatments to prevent the immune system from rejecting the hair as foreign?

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Weight management is a life-long effort, so we must be prepared to deal with challenges along the way and be in it for the long haul. To help us stay on course, it is important for us to know and constantly remind ourselves of our motivation(s) for losing weight. All doctors…

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Long Term Diets That Work – Is There Such A Thing? There are numerous books on dieting, much to the consumer’s confusion. Eat Right 4 Your Type, for example, advocates different diets that work for different blood groups. Popular diet plans include the Atkins diet, the Ornish diet, the Pr…

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Do Alternative Slimming Therapies Work? Everyday we hear about a new slimming therapy. We are bombarded with countless slimming aids and quick fixes, from slimming pills to slimming belts and even weight loss slippers. Do they work? If they did, would there be a need for so many alternatives? Creativ…

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Weight Loss Principle 5: No Shortcut We know for sure that dietary restriction, discretionary exercise and incidental daily activities all contribute to an energy deficit, thereby resulting in weight loss. This is a tried-and-tested formula, which the National Weight Control Registry (a U.S. database…

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Weight Loss Principle 4: Three Pillars We have established that we need to incur a daily energy deficit of 500 to 1,000 kcal. A healthy weight-loss program uses a protocol that aims for a deficit of 1,000 kcal and only shifts towards a 500-kcal deficit in exceptional circumstances, such as the…

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Principle 2: Consistent Energy Deficits If you incur an energy deficit of 1,000 kcal per day, you would have accumulated a total deficit of 7,000 kcal in a week and shed 7,000 kcal worth of body fat. This is equivalent to 0.9 kg of body fat! One kilogram of body fat…

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There are some key principles of weight loss we need to learn in order to understand why the actions we talk about on this site are necessary. Principle 1: Energy Deficit Body fat is an energy store. When we consume more energy than we use, the excess is stored as fat…

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Committed members of the ‘clean plate club’ have lots of traits in common, many beginning before the food is served. Eating everything that is put on the plate. Keeping food in the fridge past its sell-by date. Eating food about to go off instead of throwing it away. Keeping leftovers fro…

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One of the biggest areas where people have excuses that are hindering their weight loss – and are actually a main cause of gaining weight – is related to clearing your plate when you eat. Many excuses are heartfelt, but don’t stand up to close scrutiny. The following are three of…

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Can adding steps really help you lose weight? It certainly can. Let’s say your weight is currently Stable – neither increasing nor decreasing – but you feel that you’re 10 pounds overweight. By maintaining your current activities and diet and adding 2,000 steps a day (about 7…

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During digestion, proteins consumed in the diet are broken down by the mechanical process of chewing. Once the food is swallowed and reaches the stomach and intestines, enzymes known as proteases go to work on proteins to further reduce them into microscopic particles of protein or peptides, as well…

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What is protein? Protein is one of the three basic macro-nutrients comprising the foods we eat. (The remaining two are fat and carbohydrate.) On a molecular level, protein consists of long chains of nitrogen-containing subunits known as amino acids. Of the 21 different amino acids that go into buildi…

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Are certain people destined by their genes to be overweight or obese? The numbers vary greatly, but the heritability of body fat mass and body fat percentage is estimated at around 50%. That means our parents are only partly to blame for our size. Environmental factors, which are within our control,…

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You read about it in the papers and hear about it on the news. Federal health agencies say it could bust the Medicare trust fund well before Social Security gets into trouble. Your doctor may have even had a few words to say about your personal contribution to it. We’re talking…

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One of the most important aspects to losing weight is keeping track of your progress. If you can’t tell if you’re losing weight, how are you going to know if your current calorie intake is too much or not enough. The easiest way to track progress is by monitoring your BMI…

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Can liposuction be performed on patients of all ages?

Yes. In the early years, it was thought that the only good candidates were patients under 40, because of the youthfulness and elasticity of their skin. But in the years since, it has been found that patients through their 70s can undergo liposuctio…

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How do you know if you are overweight’? Being heavy does not necessarily mean you are unhealthy. Bodybuilders and rugby players, for example, are heavy but they are definitely not unhealthy. Their “excessive” weight is the result of increased muscle mass and muscle is good tissue. O…

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Have you thought about what else you could include in your weight loss program to help you achieve your weight loss goals? What about adding a nice massage into the mix? A massage is an excellent way to help naturally detoxify chemicals that occur within the body during an intense workout…

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Have you thought about what else you could include in your weight loss program to help you achieve your weight loss goals? What about adding a nice massage into the mix? A massage is an excellent way to help naturally detoxify chemicals that occur within the body during an intense workout…

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Walking for weight loss is a neat way to lose weight without having to worry too much about starting an exercise program. When you think exercise, are you really just thinking weight control? You’re not alone. And though obesity is no small problem in America, the benefits of physical activity…

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