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Obesity :: Aim for a Healthy Weight

A healthy weight is crucial for a long, healthy life. In 1999, almost 108 million-or 61 percent of-adults in the United States were overweight or obese. Being overweight or obese increases your risk of heart attack. And, it increases your risk of developing high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes-each of which also increases your chance of having a heart attack. If you are overweight, even a small weight loss-just 10 percent of your current weight-will help to lower your risk of developing those diseases.

Exercise :: Be Physically Active Each Day

Being physically active reduces the risk of heart-related problems, including heart attack. Physical activity can improve cholesterol levels, help control high blood pressure and diabetes, and manage weight. It also increases physical fitness, promotes psychological well-being and self-esteem, and reduces depression and anxiety.

Diabetes :: Manage Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus affects more than 16 million Americans. It damages blood vessels, including the coronary arteries of the heart. Up to 75 percent of those with diabetes develop heart and blood vessel diseases. Diabetes also can lead to stroke, kidney failure, and other problems.

Homeopathic Medicine :: Aesculus Hippocastanum – Horse Chestnut

For persons with haemorrhoidal tendencies, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles. Fullness in various parts, as from undue amount of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin.

Homeopathic Medicine :: Actaea Racemosa – Black Cohosh

Puerperal mania; thinks she is going crazy; tries to injure herself. Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.

Obesity :: Obesity associated with colorectal cancer

Obesity is associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer.

Obesity :: Obesity and smoking raise throat malignancies, throat cancers

Obesity and smoking both raise the odds for throat malignancies.

Zone Diet :: What is Zone Diet?

The Zone Diet was developed by Barry Sears, a former researcher in biotechnology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

DNA :: Structure of all possible DNA sequences

Oregon State University researchers have made significant new advances in determining the structure of all possible DNA sequences – a discovery that in one sense takes up where Watson and Crick left off after outlining in 1953 the double-helical structure of this biological blueprint for life.

Diabetes :: How insulin allows entry of glucose into cells

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered the critical sequence of events by which insulin stimulates the entry of glucose into fat cells. The study, appearing in the May 9 Journal of Cell Biology, was conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.