Thursday, April 26, 2012

The girl who must eat every 15 minutes to Stay alive(PHOTOS)

8:11 AM Anonymous
Lizzie Velasquez weighsjust four stone and has almost zero per cent body fat but she is not anorexic.In fact, the 21-year-old from Austin, Texas, must eat every 15 minutes to stay healthy. Miss Velasquez has a rare condition which prevents her from gaining weight even though she eats up to 60 small meals a day.Despite consuming between 5,000 and 8,000 calories daily, the communications student, has never tipped over 4st 3lbs.”I weigh myself regularly and if I gain even one pound I get really excited,” said 5ft 2 ins Miss Velasquez, who wears...
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Why dieting makes you FAT

12:52 AM Anonymous
Michelle Underwood knows only too well the agony of failed diets. The 36-year-old mother-of-three from Woking, Surrey, has seen her weight yo-yo from 11st to 19st repeatedly over the past decade, as a succession of diets initially worked, then failed spectacularly — leaving her heavier and more desperate than ever.  Michelle blames herself for her serial dieting failures, saying she lacks willpower and has an appetite for the wrong food. Last week saw a high-profile example of this common problem, when broadcaster Jenni Murray revealed...
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The boy who came back from the dead

12:44 AM Anonymous
They were told there was no chance of their son surviving after he suffered devastating injuries in a car crash. But Steven Thorpe’s parents refused to give up hope – despite four specialists declaring that the 17-year-old was brain dead. Convinced they saw a ‘flicker’ of life as Steven lay in a coma, John and Janet Thorpe rejected advice to switch off his life support machine. They begged for another opinion – and it was a decision that saved him. A neurosurgeon found faint signs of brain activity and two weeks later, Steven woke from...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

What's causing you to snore?

12:30 AM samizares
Who hasn’t suffered the noisy honks of a bedtime companion, or realised the snoring from one’s own nose has led to a sore throat in the morning?Given the preponderance of people affected by snoring – an estimated 30 million in the UK - it’s unsurprising a host of unorthodox “cures” have been concocted. But the question is: do any of them actually work?In a bid to find out once and for all, the British Snoring & Sleep Apnoea Association (BSSAA) put the top ten to the test with 2,000 volunteers.Among them: sewing a tennis ball into...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Benefits of Strength Training for Women

8:39 AM Anonymous
Some women prefer not to do strength training when they go to the gym. Many believe that strength training will make them bulk up and look like body builders, and they prefer to keep their shape slim and trim. Others prefer to do hours of cardio training, thinking that this burns more calories and will therefore make them lose weight faster. Whatever the reason, you don't see a whole lot of women hitting the weights at the gym. According to research, though, strength training can be essential to women’s health, and to attaining that slim,...
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10 things not to say to someone when they're ill

8:33 AM Anonymous
What no one ever tells you about serious illness is that it places you at the centre of a maelstrom of concerned attention from family and friends. Of course it does. That's one of the nice things. It's actually the only nice thing. But it's also a rather tricky challenge, at a time when you may feel – just slightly – that you have enough on your plate. Suddenly, on top of everything else, you are required to manage the emotional requirements of all those who are dear to you, and also, weirdly, one or two people who you don't see from one year...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Now women can delay motherhood by freezing their ovaries and having them re-implanted years later

7:54 PM samizares
British women are to be  given the chance of delaying motherhood by freezing parts of their ovaries. They will be able to ‘bank’ their ovarian tissue in their twenties  and early thirties, when it is most fertile, and have it re-implanted years later. Fertility specialists are planning to open the first clinic in the country to offer the procedure, which could cost as much as £16,000, within the next six months. At present it is only available in a few countries, including the United States, Denmark and Belgium, and so far...
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Chemical in fake tan and make-up is linked to obesity and diabetes

12:39 AM Anonymous
A chemical used in make-up and self tanning lotions has been linked to obesity.Scientists found that those who were exposed to phthalates, colourless man-made substances included in a variety of common consumer products, were more prone to weight gain.And subjects with even 'modest' levels of the substance in their bloodstream were twice as likely to develop diabetes.One billion tons of phthalates are produced worldwide each year and they have been widely used as gelling agents in cosmetics, cleaning products and to make plastic bottles for more...
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How a glass of red wine could PREVENT you from putting on weight

12:34 AM Anonymous
If you want to avoid gaining weight, it may be time to ditch the skipping rope and grab a corkscrew instead.For U.S. experts have found a compound in red wine that can help control obesity.The substance, piceatannol, delays the generation of young fat cells and prevents them from growing into mature ones.It is also thought to protect the body from heart and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as cancer.The compound blocks insulin’s ability to activate genes that carry out further stages of fat cell formation.The agent found in wine is also thought...
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The boy whose face became a mask of scars: Six-year-old left horrifically disfigured by fire

12:29 AM Anonymous
A Chinese boy lives behind a hard shell of scar tissue after he received terrible burns while playing with a lighter.Wang Xiaopeng, 6, has been without hair, lips, eyelids, and toes since the accident in November 2010. His injuries also make it difficult for him to see while all of his fingers were amputated from the second joint.The young boy went up in flames after he accidentally set light to some corn stalks near his home in Yinchuan in China's Ningxia Province.His parents rushed him to Ningxia Medical University General Hospital where he...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Police, doctor warn lovers

1:44 AM Anonymous
Major cities in the country, especially, Lagos, are replete with reported cases of lovers who went to the hotels or guest houses to catch fun, only for one or both to die while having s*x. Sometimes, such deaths are attributed to the traditional medicine (juju) popularly known in Yoruba as magun, secretly administered on suspected unfaithful female partners, by their husbands and lovers, to checkmate their infidelity. Also, the blame is put at the doorstep of some hotel owners, who are accused of causing the mysterious death of their clients...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Men warned to keep eating breakfast

9:04 AM Anonymous
Men who regularly skip breakfast are more at risk of developing diabetes, scientists have found.Their study discovered that missing out on food first thing in the morning increases a man’s chances of getting the disease by more than 20 per cent, compared with men who routinely eat when they get up.It follows previous research suggesting that breakfast is crucial to maintaining good heaThe latest results, from a major investigation involving 30,000 men, provide the strongest evidence yet that it can reduce the risk of diabetes.They show that...
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Want to stop snoring?

8:56 AM Anonymous
My snoring has driven people mad over the years. One of the worst times was when I caught a sleeper train in Australia — and kept half the carriage awake, apparently. My partner, June, is a light sleeper and hates my snoring — so much so that I was relegated to the spare room a few years ago.It started in my 40s and over the years I’ve tried gadgets such as nasal strips to improve airflow, but nothing has ever helped. Then, about six years ago, June said I’d started making really strange noises in my sleep. She said it was as though I had stopped...
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