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Normal Body Mass Index
The body mass index (BMI) is the relationship between the height and weight of an individual, which directly correlates to the person’s amount of body fat and explains the degree of health risk associated with the person. It is measured as BMI = body weight... -
Bulimia Treatment: Advice and Options
Bulimia is an eating disorder compels people to binge on food and then purge through self-induced vomiting, diuretics or laxative abuse, or excessive exercise. People with bulimia tend to feel guilty and disgusted about food and fat. Even though most people with bulimia begin at... -
Main Causes of Bulimia
Some people may feel that they are fat, no matter how thin they actually are. Or they may feel guilty when they eat too much food. The guilt and shame from eating makes the person vomit up all their food. These people have bulimia nervosa,... -
The Bulimia Recovery Process
People with bulimia often feel like they are keeping a secret. No one knows how terrified they are about how they look and how fat they feel. No one knows they are so afraid of gaining weight that after eating they will quietly go the... -
The Effects of Bulimia
People with bulimia have an eating disorder that causes them to binge on food and then, usually, throw up the food during binge-and-purge cycles. Some people may exercise excessively or abuse diuretics or laxatives. Although there is no known cause of bulimia, people who suffer... -
The Harmful Emergence of Pro-Bulimia Attitudes
Though bulimia is classified as an eating disorder, not everyone with bulimia feels like they have a disorder. Some view bulimia and anorexia as lifestyles—chosen lifestyles. People with bulimia and anorexia are terrified or shamed by the thought of getting fat or even eating. They... -
The Link Between Anorexia and Bulimia
Young women and men sometimes starve themselves. It doesn’t matter how thin they may be— in their internal mirror, they are fat. Or they may so afraid of gaining weight, yet so desperately hungry, that they eat and eat until they feel so guilty that... -
Understanding Bulimia
When a girl enters puberty, her body changes. It begins to look like a woman’s body, rather than a girl’s. Fat begins to appear. Breasts develop and hips widen as the girl grows. For some young woman, these changes are greeted with excitement. For other... -
What are the Symptoms of Bulimia?
Bulimia is an eating disorder. People with bulimia usually have a normal weight, but perceive themselves to be fat. Or they may feel intense guilt or self-disgust when they eat. These feelings are so strong that people with bulimia throw up much of the food... -
Causes of Cellulite
Cellulite, a skin disorder causing lumpy skin resembling an orange peel, is a common ailment, primarily among women. Although this skin disorder is characterized by only one symptom, its causes are many. The primary cause of cellulite is weak and inflexible skin cells that tend... -
Cellulite
Cellulite is a common skin disorder faced especially by women. In simple terms, cellulite is fat that is deposited in pockets below the surface of the skin. Fat cells swell up and push up against the surrounding fibrous connective tissues, causing a dimpled effect resembling... -
Cellulite Cream
Modern society places a high emphasis on physical appearance and in the constant struggle to have a perfect look; women across the world are trying everything possible to fight cellulite. This abnormality, which causes the skin to have a wrinkled and dimpled appearance, is a... -
Cellulite Treatment
Advances in cosmetic medicine have ensured that cellulite is a curable skin condition. People around the world suffering from this skin ailment try various remedies to get rid off the ‘orange peel’ skin. Although several modern-day treatments are available in the market today, the best... -
Dangers Of Diet Patches
Do not be fooled by glitzy infomercials and attractive ads saying that diet patches can effectively bump, block and flush fat from your body’s system in as little as three days. There is no such thing as instant weight loss, and the US Food and... -
Diet Patches
Ads for diet patches are everywhere –emails, online commercials, and pop-ups in websites you are browsing, magazines and infomercials. Each promotional clip is different, but there is only one idea behind them — instant weight loss. You simply place diet patches on certain parts of... -
Transdermal Diet Patches
As cases of obesity and overweight problems increase over the years, so does the search for fast-acting weight loss products. One of the most popular products these days is the transdermal diet patch – the patch that ‘controls’ your thyroid gland to increase your body’s... -
Wholesale Diet Patches
Manufacturers of diet patches claim that if you use their product, you lose weight in as little as three days – and that you can eat whatever you want and not have to exercise in the process. Who wouldn’t be swayed by such astounding claims?... -
Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Surgery
Gastric bypass surgery comes in many forms but the most popular are combination-techniques that shrink the stomach by stapling off a small section and shortening the small intestine by reattaching it at a lower point where fewer calories will be absorbed. Gastric bypass surgery and... -
What to Expect After Gastric Bypass Surgery
Most patients recover after gastric bypass surgery without complications. Typically, those who undergo the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure, which involves stapling of the stomach and bypassing the first part of the small intestines, have a hospital stay of two to four days. Other gastric bypass... -
How to Prepare for Liposuction
The American Association of Plastic Surgeons recommends that patients undergo a series of physical examinations before the liposuction surgery. The purpose of these exams is to determine whether or not the patient is in good enough health to have the procedure performed, and to rule... -
Liposuction: Risks and Benefits
Liposuction surgery is the most commonly performed cosmetic surgery in the United States. More than a quarter of a million liposuctions were performed last year. It can be an effective means of removing excess body fat in healthy people, but cosmetic surgeons caution that liposuction... -
The Cost of Liposuction Procedures
The price of liposuction will vary from state to state and from physician to physician. Although cost is surely a crucial factor in determining whether or not to have the surgery performed, several steps should be taken prior to obtaining a price quote from a... -
What to Expect After Liposuction Surgery
After the successful surgery, a patient should expect some drainage from the doctor’s incisions. In most cases the drainage is minimal but may last for several days. If the physician suspects the wounds will have excess drainage, he or she may insert a drainage tube... -
Cheap Phentermine Pills
Phentermine pills can now be bought inexpensively online. Some online pharmacies sell them cheap by not charging the processing fee, recurring charges or memberships. These pharmacies usually provide the U.S Pharmacy and FDA approved drugs for safe weight loss. Herbal phentermine pills are a cheaper... -
How Does Phentermine Work
The appetite suppressant Phentermine can be used effectively only on short-term basis and must be taken as part of a regular diet and exercise program. Used properly, Phentermine can produce amazing results. A physician must be consulted as the dosage must be strictly regulated Phentermine...