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Taking Stimulant Laxatives For Weight Loss Is Playing With Fire
by
Jimmy M.
Posted
Thu 11 Sep 2008 6:18pm
One of the most troubling aspects of our society's demand for perfection in terms of weight and beauty is the length to which desperate people will go to try to attain the unreachable. Despondency reaches its ultimate peak when otherwise intelligent and prudent individuals resort to the unthinkable.
When it comes to weight loss at an ...
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Diet Pill Death Shouldn’t Destroy Your Hope
by
hikerrd
Posted
Fri 11 Feb 2011 3:10pm
Won't be long before they're pushing diet pills for him
Weighing In On the Risks of the "Quick Fix"
Another diet pill bit the dust. Last week, the FDA killed the promise of a quick fix for losing weight. They demanded of Orexigen Therapeutics a long-term study for safety, concerned about the possible risk of heart attacks ...
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Save Money on Medical Costs - Get Your Old Medical Records
by
Davis Liu
Posted
Thu 31 Mar 2011 12:38am
There are many tips to saving money on medical costs like asking your doctor only for generic medications, choosing an insurance plan with a high deductible and lower monthly premiums, going to an urgent care or retail clinic rather than the emergency room, and getting prescriptions mailed rather than go to a pharmacy.
How about getting your o ...
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Mercury, Candida, and Me, Oh my! Part 1
by
Bueller K.
Posted
Mon 22 Sep 2008 4:36pm
3 Comments
Hello everyone! I have been busy researching like crazy as usual. My trusty binder is full to the brim again! This is going to be the longest post I have ever done and I think by the far the most extraordinarily important!
The first thing I want to say is that I officially no longer have candida!!! The tests came back at +1 which is way wi ...
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SOME Test Results And Scan Sched...
by
Jo C. Burzycki
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 9:53pm
SOME Test Results And Scan Schedule For Next Week
Well finally heard back from Dr. L's office this afternoon. The only test results that came back so far are the cortisol stim test (the adrenal function test) and my calcium levels. So as far as those go there is bad news and then there is worse news. :( My calcium levels are at 10.9 which is ...
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Bulimia, Binging and Your Budget
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Kate McLaughlin.
Posted
Sun 11 Jan 2009 3:46pm
The University of Minnesota Medical School recently reported results from study of the shopping budgets of people diagnosed with bulimia. The surprising finding:
Binges Take About One Third of Food Budgets!
People with bulimia spend thousands of dollars a year on the food they eat during binge episodes and on binging aids such as laxa ...
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iBreastfeed
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Sondra ..
Posted
Sun 27 Feb 2011 3:00pm
I breastfed my oldest son for 8 months. It wasn’t easy, but it was worth it. When he was two months old, I returned to work, full-time, and I pumped regularly, storing my breastmilk in the office refrigerator and traveling back and forth to work each day with my Medela breatpump .
At seven years old, he remains very healthy, hardly ever getti ...
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Soldiers unhealthily meeting weight requirements
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Sushicookie
Posted
Fri 10 Dec 2010 6:44pm
I’ve never been a large person. Even when I was overweight I was so far from being obese that you could compare it like America to Russia in distance.
I might come off as anti-obesity. But mostly I am anti-excuse. There is no reason anyone should hit the obesity mark unless they have some genetic (and rare) complication that they cannot fig ...
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Top 10 Dumbest Fad Diets | Diet Reviews
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Matt C.
Posted
Fri 20 Feb 2009 6:12pm
1 Comment
We Take a Look at the Most Popular Fad Diets of the Past 30 Years and Pick The Top 10 Dumbest Fad Diets to Ever Be Unleashed on Dieters.
The Fad Diet.
Nothing exemplifies the American obsession with quick fixes more than the seemingly endless parade of fad diets cooked up by everyone from modern snake-oil salesmen, to slick Internet e ...
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