The conference is a joint-venture between the For Grace nonprofit, the City of Hope Medical Center and the Southern California Cancer Pain Initiative and is intended to provide support to women in pain and provide skills, knowledge, values, methods and sensitivities needed to work effectively for quality pain management for women in pain. (PRWeb May 23, 2008)

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"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food" — Hippocrates. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters from Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. (PRWeb Mar 15, 2008)

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Crossing to shed pounds - San Diego Union-Tribune
Instead of landing on Avenida Revolucion like most tourists do, they made a bee line for one of the city's weight-loss-surgery clinics. Other obese children from the United States and their parents are taking the same path.

Weight rules now more stringent for Marines - Marine Corp Times
Life just got a bit more miserable for Marines struggling to keep their weight in check. Beginning immediately, the Corps wants all commanders to evaluate those Marines assigned to the service s body composition program, a six-month rehab designed

alli(TM) Partners with Breast Cancer Network of Strength(TM) to - MSN MoneyCentral
PARSIPPANY, N.J. , Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Who knew that simply putting on 21 - 30 pounds between your teens and your 50s could increase your risk of breast cancer after menopause? Now that word is getting out about the link between excess weight

Olympic star launches weight-loss clinic - Bucks Free Press
AN Olympic medal-winner launched a new clinic to help people lose weight in High Wycombe. Matt Wells, a member of the Great Britain team who won a bronze medal in the Beijing Olympic Games, visited the town yesterday to open SureSlim UK. The rowing

Obesity Linked With Headaches In Children - Redorbit.com
A new study found chronic headaches are more common in overweight children and teenagers. However, weight loss, according to researchers, could in turn, cut headache frequency. The study included 913 children and teens with headache complaints. It

U.S. Parents Fighting Obesity In Mexico - Post Chronicle
U.S. parents are taking their children to Mexico for lower cost weight-loss surgery, a U.S. surgeon says. Gastric bypass and stomach banding typically cost half as much in Mexico as they do in the United States, but U.S. health officials are

Calorie restriction diet not linked to bone loss - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A calorie restriction diet does not cause bone loss in young, overweight adults, provided adequate amounts of calcium and other nutrients are maintained, according to a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The aim

Self discipline is key for weight-loss surgery - Herald Tribune
Sara Sloan could be the star of an advertisement for weight-reduction surgery. This 58-year-old retired teacher from Brooklyn had been "the heaviest kid in kindergarten, heavy my whole life," she said, until she underwent gastric bypass surgery in

More Weight Loss Means More Bone Loss In Study - nbc4.com
People who have surgery to curb obesity may later have trouble getting enough calcium and vitamin D to support their bones, according to a new study. "Our research shows that deficiencies of calcium and vitamin D absorption occur following gastric

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Onlypunjab.com - As the moment someone calls you fat and makes fun of you, you feel like taking revenge on that person and nothing can be a better revenge than massive weight loss success.

Eat Right, Live Well
Egypt Today - Many dietitians may restrict weight-loss seekers to a rigid three-meal plan, with nothing allowed in-between except celery sticks or grapefruit juice.

Religion News in Brief
Herald & Review - OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ About 15 Oklahoma City churches with predominantly black membership are participating in a weight-loss challenge started by an official at a health care company.

Slim for keeps
New Zealand Herald - So far, 65 per cent of participants have achieved permanent weight loss of 3kg to 30kg-plus. Buist is the mill's star performer. A former provincial under-21 hockey rep, he was a 34-year-old, 158kg lump of lard when introduced to Elder's Eat For Keeps

Lady Doctor Gets Death Threats for Revealing TOP SECRET Fat Loss
pressbox.co.uk - A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss ever discovered — and this has the whole diet food and drug industries turned upside down and in nothing less than a torrential uproar.

Vanessa Loves Her Reeboks and Personal Cheerleader
Popsugar - Vanessa Loves Her Reeboks and Personal Cheerleader Feb 22 2008 - 12:07pm Vanessa Minnillo joined the ladies of Gossip Whole Grains Better For a Smaller Belly Breathing and Running Pop Quiz Are You Getting Enough Fluoride? Walk Faster For Weight Loss

Health investments could be beneficial
Miami Herald - Weight-loss surgeries have increased nearly sixfold from 1990 to 2000, according to a study by the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Retirees tackle Weight Loss Challenge
News-Herald - At the start of 2008, many people made New Year's resolutions to lose weight or get in shape. Residents of one Downriver retirement community decided to get serious about those resolutions. To help with the fitness quest, the staff at the Bridgewater

The big thin obsession
Daily News and Analysis - Closer home, more women have simply put a stop to their weight-loss regime and opted for a healthy body. Ask ex-supermodel Madhu Sapre, who now admits that she was never meant to have a thin body and that she has found a comfort level with her

Guess Who?
Popsugar - Martha and Emeril Offer Their Top Entertaining Tips TV Dinners: La Vie En Rose Tournedos Rossini Yummy Link: Whole Grains Better For a Smaller Belly Breathing and Running Pop Quiz Are You Getting Enough Fluoride? Walk Faster For Weight Loss

Matt Millen says if he were a fan, 'I'd blame me, too'
Detroit Free Press - Will he attend a weight-loss program? A: All those things are available to him. But it s up to him. Q: But it has been up to him and he hasn t done it.

FREE BREAKTHROUGH -NO DIET- WEIGHT RELEASE PROGRAMME COMES TO NORTH
pressbox.co.uk - And, there are a few free places left for the next programme plus a FREE Weight Loss Hypnotherapy CD or MP3 download for all visitors for more details visit http://www.ultimateweightloss.co.uk or phone 01884-861677.

Casting call could prove doubly difficult
Baltimore Sun - Can't believe my good fortune. The producers of The Biggest Loser, NBC's hit weight-loss reality show, will be in Pompano Beach today casting for next season. Loser recruits overweight people to go on a weight-loss program and compete for a huge

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Internet Site Launches New Trimfizz Effervescent Weight Loss Product - Businesswire.com
ALEXANDRIA, Va.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Power-Trition LLC, one of America s leading nutritional supplement companies, has launched its latest product, Trimfizz , with its own web site, www.trimfizz.com . The site includes a toll-free number (1-866

CB Richards, Caterpillar, FCStone, Perot: U.S. Equity Movers - Bloomberg
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) — The following companies are having unusual price changes in U.S. trading today. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are as of 4 p.m. in New York. Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMLN US) retreated 26 percent to $7.94

The red wine weight loss wonder drug that lets you eat junk food - Daily Mail
A drug inspired by red wine could allow people to eat as much junk food as they like without putting on a pound. The couch potato's dream, it could also provide the benefits of exercise without moving a muscle. If that were not enough, the pill

Weight Loss Surgery Without Incisions? - WCPO
A nine pound weight loss in two weeks amazes Carrie Williamson. The 30-year old has been overweight since she was a child and says she's tried every diet she could find. That's why she volunteered to be the first American patient to undergo a new

Internet Site Launches New Trimfizz Effervescent Weight Loss Product - PR Inside
www.trimfizz.com - Power-Trition LLC, one of America's leading nutritional supplement companies, has launched its latest product, Trimfizz(R), with its own web site, www.trimfizz.com. The site includes a toll-free number (1-866- 860-9808) for factory

Amylin, Orient-Express, PFG, Sun Hydraulics: U.S. Equity Movers - Bloomberg
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) — The following companies are having unusual price changes in U.S. trading today. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are as of 12:15 p.m. in New York. Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMLN US) retreated 21 percent to

Gok Wan to give men the make over - MSN UK News
Gok Wan will work his magic on men in the new series of How To Look Good Naked. The bespectacled stylist originally turned down the chance to makeover men but had a change of heart. "I used to be a male stylist and I used to do lot of work with guys

Arena Prefers Partner For Obesity Drug, But Can Go It Alone - CNN Money
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ARNA) prefers to find a partner for its lead drug candidate, obesity treatment lorcaserin, but remains confident of its ability to sell the drug itself. The San Diego biopharmaceutical company holds

SIZE MATTERS - New York Post
A Mexican woman with a hunger for overweight guys has married the world's fattest man in a ceremony where the groom was rolled to a Monterrey wedding hall in a custom-made flatbed truck because he was too large to get out of bed. Despite shedding 570

SurgiCare hails the gastric balloon as the golden hope for weight loss - WebWire
SurgiCare, leading UK cosmetic and weight loss surgery provider, has announced that the gastric balloon is the latest procedure to be added to its weight loss treatment portfolio. SurgiCare has reported that the introduction of the air filled gastric