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Obesity is a serious disease – a disease in which the sufferer’s body weight becomes far in excess of a healthy norm. It is epidemic on Georgia. Almost 63% of the population of the Peach State is overweight or obese.  And obesity costs, in both money and lives: those with obesity may experience other life-threatening illnesses (co-morbidities), such Type II diabetes, cancer, heart conditions, and high blood pressure. Annual medical expenditures attributable to obesity cost us Georgians approximately $2.1 billion per year.

Obesity is more than a problem in Georgia. It’s a public health crisis.

The Weight Wars

Healthy weight is calculated in terms of individual body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of body fat in adult men and women based on height and weight. Those with a BMI of at least 25 are considered overweight; those with a BMI of 30 or above are considered obese.

Gimmicks like fad diets, infomercial exercise programs, and so-called weight-loss pills are no solution. Some lose weight by these means, true, but most regain it later. Others lose no weight no matter what they do – and wreck their health in the process. But weight loss is not enough. Obesity is a disease. The excess weight is only a symptom. To cure the disease, we must change our relationship with food entirely.

The only mechanism for weight loss is cutting caloric intake. Some can reduce their food intake by willpower alone; others need a supervised medical diet program to put them of the right path. And for those for whom neither of these is a solution, another option exists: weight loss surgery.

The Surgical Option

Surgical weight loss – also known as bariatric surgery — has been proven effective in treating obesity-related health problems for individuals with a BMI of 35 or higher with related co-morbidities. It can also help those who are obese but have no co-morbidities to reach their ideal weight and lessen their chances of developing health problems related to obesity in the future. Bariatric surgery is performed under general anesthesia, usually laparoscopically, and works by surgically altering the patient’s stomach and/or bowel to physically limit the amount of food the patient can eat. When the patient’s daily caloric intake drops below the number of calories their body needs to operate each day, the weight starts to come off.  As with all forms of surgery, weight loss surgery presents the patient with a risk of major postoperative complications, including infection, anemia and other nutritional deficiencies, ulcers, and gallstones. 

Considering Surgical Weight Loss

Weight loss surgery only makes sense as a treatment option when it combined with a healthy lifestyle. Weight loss surgery patients who fail to adopt healthier eating and activity habits, or who refuse to follow postoperative instructions from their surgeon, may regain any weight lost or suffer other negative health effects.

All surgical procedures expose the patient to some degree of risk, including the risk of serious complications. The outcome of any particular case cannot be known with certainty in advance. Patients should make any decision regarding surgery in consultation with their physician.

Many physicians believe that obesity is the most serious health threat facing the population of Georgia. But we can beat obesity – if we all pull together.

Craig B. Thompson
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/weight-loss-surgery-in-georgia-664335.html

Causes for Cocaine Addiction

The term addiction is the other form of bad habit and it has a very large impact on the entire life. Most of the people get addicted in their teenage period. Cocaine is one of the narcotics that produce hazardous impact on human body. In general, people become addicted of cocaine due to depression and frustration. Some people take cocaine by coming under influence of bad company which causes addiction. It is used to keep low weight by people. People have scarcity of time use it to suppress the appetite.

Effects of Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine develops pseudo confidence inside a person and makes them physically weak. Initially, it damages cells of body and some time it may cause death. The addiction is categorized according to the consumption period. A person taken cocaine once or twice can be cured easily because it is an initial stage of addiction. However, if anybody using for long time then it is a tough task to make him de-addict. Long-term use of cocaine creates permanent disability. The user feels energetic, loss of appetite, abnormal heartbeat, and high blood pressure. It affects heart and vision very badly. There are many serious effects which ruins the life of cocaine addicts and which makes them not able to do their life activities.

Treatments for Cocaine Addiction

Cocaine addiction treatment can be done easily at primary level. People have short term addiction can be cured quickly. It takes more time in treatment of people using it for very long time. Various rehabilitation centers are working for cocaine de-addiction. Numerous programs are offered by these centers and clinics. Some time psychoanalyst and psychiatrist also give treatment to people under this addiction. Mental disorder and behavior change is treated by expert counselors. Residential treatment center is also designed for cocaine-addicted people. These treatments are proved to be one of the best options for all the addicts to recover from these addictions under professional guidance.

Cocaine Addiction Recovery

After cocaine addiction treatment, addicted people can live normal life. They are always assisted to come back in mainstream of society. Everyone should co-operate with addicted people. They should be given love and affection to regain their self-confidence. Every body should take resolution for cocaine de-addiction and prevent others from its bad effects. In most of the cases the cocaine addicts have been helping people by explaining their own treatments and the causes and effects of the addiction.

Johnsena
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/cocaine-addiction-treatments-effects-causes-and-recovery-743626.html

The normal range for cholesterol is less than 200 total cholesterol, with less than 150 levels of triglycerides, greater than 40 HDL levels and less than 130 LDL levels. Find out the difference between good cholesterol and bad cholesterol with information from a board-certified cardiologist in this free video on heart health.

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In order to lower blood pressure, an individual can try eating spinach, black beans, celery, cauliflower, bananas, raisins and good legumes. Find out how foods that are rich in magnesium are good for lowering blood pressure with help from a certified health counselor and nutrition consultant in this free video on healthy eating.

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In the Associated Press they did a report that over 41 million people are exposed to pharmaceutical drugs in TREATED drinking water.

We have all heard the saying ‘There is something in the water’ Well There IS.

Time to Stand UP and Get for Once AMERICA. Remember your baby’s formula is now being contaminated with drugs.

And there is NO FEDERAL or STATE REGULATIONS ON WATER TREATMENT FOR DRUGS.

‘There Is Something In The Water’ well this saying is no more just an idea of a conspiracist. This is
what is really going on across America from major cities to suburban neighborhoods.

Are you the Americans going to take this with a smile. Are you going to trust the government to fix
this problem when they dont even have any regulations for it. What are you going to do.

The New World Order, Big Corporations taken over, 911 inside job, Alex Jones, Micheal Moore, George Bush,
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, IRS, Illuminati, Free Masons, WTC, Major Media, Corrupt Politicians, Iraq,
Iran, Israel, Jews running the world, Terrorist trying to take freedom, etc. All of this does not matter
when Americans cannot even get up and DEMAND CLEAN WATER.

Below is a list of some of the pharmaceuticals they found in TREATED drinking water.

ANTIBIOTICS

Amoxicillin — for pneumonia, stomach ulcers

Azithromycin — for pneumonia, sexually transmitted diseases

Bacitracin — prevents infection in cuts and burns

Chloramphenicol — for serious infections when other antibiotics can’t be used

Ciprofloxacin — for anthrax, other infections

Doxycycline — for pneumonia, Lyme disease, acne

Erythromycin — for pneumonia, whooping cough, Legionnaires’ disease

Lincomycin — for strep, staph, other serious infections

Oxytetracycline — for respiratory, urinary infections

Penicillin G — for anthrax, other infections

Penicillin V — for pneumonia, scarlet fever, infections of ear, skin, throat

Roxithromycin — for respiratory, skin infections

Sulfadiazine — for urinary infections, burns

Sulfamethizole — for urinary infections

Sulfamethoxazole — for traveler’s diarrhea, pneumonia, urinary and ear infections

Tetracycline — for pneumonia, acne, stomach ulcers, Lyme disease

Trimethoprim — for urinary and ear infections, traveler’s diarrhea, pneumonia

PAIN RELIEVERS

Acetaminophen — soothes arthritis, aches, colds; reduces fever

Antipyrine — for ear infections

Aspirin — for minor aches, pain; lowers risk of heart attack and stroke

Diclofenac — for arthritis, menstrual cramps, other pain

Ibuprofen — for arthritis, aches, menstrual cramps; reduces fever

Naproxen — for arthritis, bursitis, tendinitis, aches; reduces fever

Prednisone — for arthritis, allergic reactions, multiple sclerosis, some cancers

HEART DRUGS

Atenolol — for high blood pressure

Bezafibrate — for cholesterol problems

Clofibric acid — byproduct of various cholesterol medications

Diltiazem — for high blood pressure, chest pain

Gemfibrozil — regulates cholesterol

Simvastatin — slows production of cholesterol

MIND DRUGS

Carbamazepine — for seizures, mood regulating

Diazepam — for anxiety, seizures; eases alcohol withdrawal

Fluoxetine — for depression; relieves premenstrual mood swings

Meprobamate — for anxiety

Phenytoin — controls epileptic seizures

Risperidone — for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe behavior problems

OTHER HUMAN DRUGS

Caffeine — found in coffee; also used in pain relievers

Cotinine — byproduct of nicotine; drug in tobacco, also used in products to help smokers quit

Iopromide — given as contrast agent for medical imaging

Nicotine — found in tobacco, also in medicinal products to help smokers quit

Paraxanthine — a byproduct of caffeine

Theophylline — for asthma, bronchitis and emphysema

VETERINARY

Carbadox — for control of dysentery, bacterial enteritis in pigs; promotes growth

Chlortetracycline — for eye, joint, other animal ailments

Enrofloxacin — for infections in farm animals and pets; treats wounds

Monensin — for weight gain, prevention of severe diarrhea in farm animals

Narasin — for severe diarrhea in farm animals

Oleandomycin — for respiratory disease; promotes growth in farm animals

Salinomycin — promotes growth in livestock

Sulfachloropyridazine — for enteritis in farm animals

Sulfadimethoxine — for severe diarrhea, fowl cholera, other conditions in farm animals

Sulfamerazine — for a range of infections in cats, fowl

Sulfamethazine — for bacterial diseases in farm animals; promotes growth

Sulfathiazole — for diseases in aquarium fish

Tylosin — promotes growth, treats infections in farm animals, including bees

Virginiamycin M1 — prevents infection, promotes growth in farm animals

All these pharmaceutical drugs and more were found in TREATED WATER SUPPLY.

Do something for once, stand up and be heard, stop this insanity NOW.

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An imbalance in hormones from pregnancy can cause high blood pressure. If you lost a baby due to this once, yes, it could happen again. There are certain medications to take for high blood pressure when preganant that you can consult your ob/gyn about. Keep a close check on your blood pressure…..do not put this off.

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This FALSE belief goes back to 1968 when the Framingham study was published.

My impression is that this belief about blood pressure is thought to be one of the “sacred truths” in medicine.

But this belief is WRONG.

The current cutoff for hypertension for systolic blood pressure, that is the upper number, is 140 mm Hg for everybody Port notes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Society of Hypertension has proposed that normal blood pressure should be lower than 130 mm Hg, and ideally below 120 mm Hg.

This is based on the assumption that the higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk of death, and the lower your blood pressure, the lower your risk of death.

But this assumption is WRONG.

This assumption originally came from the Framingham study that was published in 1968 and has been believed ever since.

However, the Framingham study used the WRONG statistical model which led to this FALSE belief.

UCLA statistician Sid Port re-ran the statistics on the data from the original Framingham study.

When he did, he found that they used the wrong statistical model leading to this FALSE belief.

Port found

The original Framingham data DOES NOT support the belief that “lower [systolic] pressures imply lower risk”

Port also found that

Port also found that the original Framingham data also does NOT support the belief that “140 mm Hg is a useful cut-off for hypertension all adults.”

In other words, this belief is WRONG.

Here we are in June 2009, and, as far as I know, nothing has been done to correct this false belief.

It would be very simple to prove or disprove what Sid Port discovered.

All you’d need to do is give the same data to several statisticians around the world and let them analyze the data independently.

This would prove or disprove what Sid Port is saying.

But, as far as I know, this has NOT been done.

Many people are being frightening into believing the have hypertension, and that they must take a drug to lower their blood pressure.

Several older people have told me

“I’m taking this blood pressure medicine which makes me feel lousy”

” but I know that I have to take it if I don’t want to die.”

But for a majority of people who have been told that they have hypertension, this is NOT true.

For most people with moderately elevated blood pressure, they are at NO GREATER RISK OF DEATH.

I believe the reason that this false belief continues to be perpetuated is because drug companies don’t want doctors and patients to know the truth because it would dramatically lower sales of blood pressure medicines.

The drug companies perpetuate this false belie in order to scare you into thinking you’d better take their drugs or else you will die.

It also the case that many researchers have been paid by the drug companies, which influences what they say.

This is most unfortunate, but true.

I will post other highlights from this brilliant paper.

I believe that potassium bicarbonate is vastly superior to all prescription blood pressure medicine for improving health.

I’ve been taking 1000 mg of potassium twice a day (2000 mg per day) in the form of potassium bicarbonate since 2000.

My blood pressure dropped from roughly 140/80 mm Hg to 124/73 mm Hg.

(A picture of my blood pressure reading is shown in the video posted in YouTube.

WARNING: Only take potassium under a doctor’s supervision. Too much potassium can kill you.

So my question is for anyone trying to lower their blood pressure

Why not try potassium (bicarbonate) first?

REFERENCE

Port S, Demer L, Jennrich R, Walter D, Garfinkel A. Systolic blood pressure and mortality. Lancet. 2000 Jan 15, 355(9199):175-80.

AUTHOR’S CONTACT INFORMATION

Sidney Port, PhD
Professor of Mathmatics and
Professor of Statistics
Mathematics Department
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555
(310) 825 2207 phone
(310) 825 4701 phone
(310) 206-6673 fax
sport@ucla.edu

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