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Patients pay more, get less - if they're lucky
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers*This piece originally ran on A1 on Tuesday, October 21, 2008* Jennifer and Greg Danylyshyn of Pasadena are conscientious parents. They keep proper car seats in their used BMW, organic vegetables in the family diet and the pediatrician's number by the...Tags: Health, Career and Workplace, Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Family
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What now for weight loss?
The country is down to onededicated, prescription obesity medication -- the not-too-pleasantXenical -- since Friday's announcement that Meridiawill be removed from the market due to an increased risk ofheart problems among people with cardiovascular...Tags: Health, Physical Conditions, Heart Disease, Weight Loss, Social Issues
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Podcasts may help with weight loss
Successful weight loss may be just a podcast away.
But what's on that podcast could make the difference between losing a modest amount of weight and losing next to none, according to a new study out of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill....Tags: Weight Loss
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The Find: Jasmine Mediterranean Restaurant in Anaheim
The stuffed grape leaves at Jasmine Mediterranean Restaurant in Anaheim deserve your complete attention. First: These are unapologetically lemony, in a way that says, "Hello! I am not in any way trying to calm myself down for middle-of-the-road taste...Tags: Health, Physical Conditions, Pita Bread, Dining and Drinking, Pistachios
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Jack LaLanne was a healthy showoff to the very end
Jack LaLanne was an incredible showoff, and with good reason.
If you can do 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes at the "over-the-hill" age of 42, then by all means show yourself off. If you can swim more than a mile through the strong currents of Long Beach...Tags: Health, Physical Conditions, Celebrities and Health Issues, Vitamin D, Entertainment
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Diet drug on deck: Contrave to undergo FDA panel scrutiny Tuesday
On Tuesday, the LaJolla, Calif.-based developer of a drug it calls Contrave tries to succeed where at least three other pharmaceutical firms have failed in recent years -- to win over a panel of independent experts advising the Food and Drug...Tags: Health, Physical Conditions, Crime, Law and Justice, Pharmaceuticals, Weight
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Gear: A step up in home ellipticals
The elliptical trainer and its smooth oval foot pattern was a hit the moment it arrived on the scene in the mid-1990s, but a good one that could stand up to regular home use without rattling apart has never come cheap. That's doubly true of some of the...Tags: Health, Lance Armstrong, File Sharing, Apple iPod, Weight
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Trying to define binge eating disorder
Binge eating was long seen by psychiatrists as an unusual symptom of major depression or an anxiety disorder. After all, it seemed sometimes to lessen or yield to antidepressants and psychotherapy -- both aimed primarily at treating depression or anxiety....Tags: Health, Symptoms, Harvard University, Anxiety, Obesity
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Early-pregnancy Weight Gain Linked to Gestational Diabetes
Women have long been told that gaining weight before becoming pregnant or being overweight at the start of pregnancy puts them at higher risk for gestational diabetes. But a new study finds that the first trimester is the most crucial time for weight gain...Tags: Health, Obesity, Gynecology, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities
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What is Diabetes?
Most people do not know the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. With that in mind, let’s take a closer look at each of the forms the disease may take.
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune process in which the immune...Tags: Immune System, Health, Physical Conditions, Human Body, Minority Groups
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Sweet stuffed
America's sweet tooth is growing. Like many other mammals, we are hooked on sugar because it is packed with energy and our bodies have evolved ways of encouraging us to consume more of it.
The trouble is, foods and beverages with added sugars are...Tags: Health, University of Minnesota, Obesity, Colleges and Universities, University of California
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The 'contagion' of social networks
The old folk concept that our personal health behaviors rub off on those around us has received a staggering amount of scientific support of late. Over the last few years, study after study has shown that weight gain, drug and alcohol use, even loneliness...Tags: Marquette University, Physical Conditions, Health, Obesity, Yale University
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