15th June 2007
In a recent study of more than 8,000 women between the ages of 40 and 75 it was found that severely obese women attended routine screening for breast and cervical cancer far less frequently than women of normal weight. Indeed, severely overweight women at...
15th June 2007
There are a large number of choices available today when it comes to weight loss surgery, from the classical Roux-en-Y gastric bypass to laparoscopic or robotic adjustable gastric banding, but which is the best choice for patients with a particularly high...
11th June 2007
Many parents feel very strongly that they wish to opt for homeschooling but also feel that it will be difficult to cope with teaching their children alone. In addition, there are often areas in which they simply do not have the knowledge or skill necessar...
11th June 2007
The two main choices open to you when it comes to buying a private medical health insurance plan are traditional indemnity health insurance and managed care. But what do you do when neither of these alternatives meets your needs?
This is one problem wh...
11th June 2007
There are literally hundreds of individual medical health insurance plans available today from a whole variety of different companies but choosing the wrong plan can end up costing you an arm and a leg. So how do you go about selecting the plan that is ri...
11th June 2007
It is well known that obesity places you at risk of developing problems from such things as diabetes, sleep apnea, cardiovascular disease, stroke and arthritis, but it is now being suggested that asthma should also be added to this list.
As the problem...
11th June 2007
As our knowledge continues to grow so too do what at first sight appear to ludicrous claims and this one certainly seems to fall into this category. Can anyone honestly believe that the soap we use in the bath, or the shampoo, can actually be adding to th...
11th June 2007
Although rising healthcare costs mean that it is not as easy as it used to be to find an affordable family health insurance plan, you can still find a plan which meets your budget providing you are willing to do some research.
Start by doing some compa...
11th June 2007
One question which people commonly ask is whether they really need health insurance or whether they can live without it. Unfortunately, this is not always an easy question to answer and the answer will depend very much on who you ask.
You might argue t...
10th June 2007
Obesity is continuing to rise at alarming rates in many western countries and there can be very little doubt that our modern lifestyle and diet is to a very large extent responsible for what has now been officially classed as an epidemic. However, there i...
10th June 2007
As with adults the first line of attack for obesity in teenagers is normally a carefully controlled program of diet and exercise. In many cases however this does not do the trick and so many doctors will move on to supplement this treatment with drugs, co...
10th June 2007
There are almost as many answers to the question of why you should homeschool your children as there are parents undertaking homeschooling.
Some parents wish to remove their children from a public school system which they see as failing, or as being po...
08th June 2007
Obesity is a well known problem amongst the adult population of many western countries but, much more worrying, is the alarming rise in obesity being seen in our children at younger and younger ages.
Obesity is typically assessed initially by eye and i...
08th June 2007
For many patients gastric bypass surgery is very much a last resort and something to be put off as long a possible while they explore all of their other options. Indeed, in most cases patients are assisted in this by their doctor who, following tradition,...
07th June 2007
Gastric bypass patients need to take vitamins and minerals following surgery to compensate for the fact that bypassing part of the intestine prevents the body from absorbing not only calories, thus resulting in the desired weight loss, but also many of th...
