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Obesity is because of eating too many calories and not getting enough physical activities to burn those calories. Excess calories are deposited in the body as fat.

Obesity increases the risk of several health problems like high blood pressure, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, gout, gallstones, colon cancer, sleep apnea and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

High blood pressure:

Blood vessels carry blood from heart to different organs of the body and back to heart. The blood vessels have thick but elastic walls for proper flow of blood. Decrease in elasticity of blood vessel wall increases pressure on blood passing through these vessels. Obesity decreases elasticity of blood vessels causing increase in blood pressure.

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If you have an eating disorder, whether it is bulimia, anorexia, or other form of “emotional eating,” ask yourself this: Do I feel safe in my body?

I have worked for over twenty years with women with all sorts of emotional eating problems including severe eating disorders. I am fully recovered from bulimia, myself. One of the most deeply entrenched experiences that women with eating disorders carry throughout life, if they don’t seek healing, is the feeling of being unsafe in their own bodies. I believe that the suffering we cause ourselves (dis-eases, eating disorders and addictions, violence, and other dysfunctional behavior) originates with our disconnection from the Self. A result of this “disconnect” is insecurity.

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The most common over the counter and prescription drugs used to treat both tension headaches as well as migraine headaches are aspirin, acetaminophen (Tylenol is the best example), ibuprofen (Motrin or Advil are commonly known ibuprofen brands,) or naproxen.

Three other pharmaceutical products that have had limited success in the treatment of migraines are primarily prescription medications. These migraine treatments include ergotamine tartrate, and sumatriptan. The third, extra-strength Excedrin is, of course, available over the counter. Excedrin includes caffeine. Caffeine has shown to be of considerable help with both tension headaches as well as migraines.

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Over the years, people who are desperate for a good night’s sleep have come up with a number of ways to try and trick themselves into nodding off. The following self-treatments you shouldn’t try at home, because no matter what your friends and coworkers tell you, these are bad sleep habits.

Sheer force of will

No matter how hard you try, you can’t force yourself to fall asleep if you have insomnia. In fact, the harder you try, the less likely it is that you’ll actually drift off. The effort you exert actually excites the nervous system and acts to prevent sleep.

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Tooth Infection is a slow process resulting in dental cavities or dental caries. This tooth infection normally occurs when disease causing bacteria slowly makes a kind of acid that entirely eats away at a tooth. This may even cause wisdom tooth infection like tooth loss if not treated properly.

Tooth infection can be easily prevented by regular flossing and brushing your teeth, and by consulting your dental surgeon for cleaning and check ups, also by avoiding taking foods that are very high in sugar

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Celebrities like Tyra Banks and Vanessa Minnillo from Entertainment Tonight are donning ‘fat suits’ to experience what it’s like to be fat and illuminating their experience for the American public. For an ever increasing number of Americans Tyra and Vanessa’s experience is their reality. At the end of the day they are unable to shed their ‘fat suit’ and lead a thin life. The mind set of many is based in fear thinly veiled as sarcasm, disdain, rudeness and plain old meanness, after all next year they very well could be the one struggling with weight issues.

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Your skin is the largest and most visible organ you have since it covers the entire body. Having attractive, healthy skin starts from the inside and reflects on the outside. The first step towards taking proper care of your skin is to determine what type of skin you are in right now.

Looking both inside and outside our bodies it would seem common sense to reduce the cocktail of chemicals around us whenever possible. They are present in household cleaners, furniture, and pollution from cars. There seems to be no escape from damaging our skin so where do we start? The food that we eat is perhaps the most obvious start or reducing the number of chemicals and pesticides in our bodies. However, for those of us who use them, skin and body care products are another very direct point of contact between ourselves and the world of invasive chemicals.

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Acomplia is a medication to assist obese people to lose weight and it was licensed for use as an adjunct to diet and exercise in the UK in June 2006. Since then, it has proved to be the most popular weight loss treatment prescribed by The Online Clinic, outstripping sales of Xenical and Reductil, the two established weight loss treatments licensed in the UK.

Acomplia works by blocking the CB1 receptor in the body’s endocannabinoid system. The endocannabinoid system is thought to regulate the body’s desire for food and energy consumption. The body sends out chemicals called cannabinoids which, when they latch onto the CB1 receptors which are located in fat cells and the hypothalamus of the brain, creates a signal that the body desires food and this manifests itself as hunger pangs. It is believed that the endocannabinoid system is overactive in overweight and obese people. The blocking of the CB1 receptor by Rimonabant (the active ingredient in Acomplia) makes hunger pangs much more manageable.

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