leViv Unveils Chef-Inspired Meal Programs for People Managing Chronic Health Conditions and Those Seeking a Healthy Lifestyle
leViv, Inc. (www.leViv.com), a consumer health care company, today introduced breakthrough meal programs designed to allow people diagnosed with Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease and prostate cancer to easily incorporate restaurant-style cuisine into their lives. leViv has also introduced a meal program for consumers interested in healthy living. The plans are part [...]
Understanding Emotions Improves Our Food Choices
Menus and advertising affect our emotions, and if we understand those emotions, we make better food choices, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Authors Blair Kidwell, David M. Hardesty, and Terry L. Childers (all University of Kentucky) examined the “emotional intelligence” of consumers, including obese people. They found that people who [...]
Levemir Demonstrates a Significant Weight Loss in Obese Patients
Data released at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Annual Meeting concludes that Levemir® (insulin detemir [rDNA origin] injection) is a once-daily treatment for diabetes patients after demonstrating a 24-hour duration of action in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.1,2 Results from two other studies announced today reveal that Levemir® can [...]
Bariatric Surgery: Improves Health in a Cost Efficient Manner
Bariatric surgery has been said that it can pay for itself within a few years by helping to reduce insurance claims resulting from medical conditions that obese people can develop. While that might seem to be an overestimation, research shows that it is indeed correct, and that in most cases, surgical cost can be recovered [...]
Faith Helps Women to Lose Weight
They ate when they were stressed. They ate when they were lonely or frustrated. Then the guilt set in — for breaking the latest attempt at a diet, for losing the power struggle with a craving. It’s an unhealthy pattern familiar to the women below, and one to which many of us can relate.
So what [...]
Practical Guide to Weight Loss the Six Senses Way
We all want to lose a few pounds and look better than ever, but sometimes it just so difficult to achieve. Frustration and failure are easy to avoid if you have an effective and realistic plan of action. To help you reach your fat-fighting goal, Marteyne van Well, Spa Manager at Six Senses [...]
Adding eggs to breakfast could stimulate weight-loss
If you’re counting calories and thinking about what would make a better breakfast, assuming equal calories for both: a 3.5-inch bagel with 1-ounce cream cheese and 3-ounces light nonfat yogurt or two jumbo eggs (scrambled) and two toast slices with reduced-calorie jam; which do you believe would help you lose weight faster?
At first, that bagel [...]
Doctor Gets Death Threats for Exposing Fat Loss Secret to General Public
A new breakthrough in weight loss is being called, “All you now need in order to forever shed countless pounds, stay healthy, and add many years to your life”… A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss, and this has the whole diet food and drug industries [...]
Master Switch In The Brain That Regulates Appetite And Reproduction is Discovered
Body weight and fertility have long known to be related to each other – women who are too thin, for example, can have trouble becoming pregnant. Now, a master switch has been found in the brain of mice that controls both, and researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies say it may work the [...]
Incision-Free Weight Loss Surgery Performed at New York Presbyterian Hospital
The first patient in the New York City area received incision free surgery for obesity as part of the ongoing multicenter TOGA Pivotal Trial at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
Drs. Marc Bessler and Daniel Davis performed the TOGA Procedure (for “transoral gastroplasty”), which, like other obesity procedures, is designed to alter the patient’s stomach anatomy [...]
