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Fighting Weight Gain With Mirafit fbcx
By Mike Moran

  Obesity, as has been recently confirmed by the Brookings Institute, is a worldwide epidemic. Nearly one-third of the citizenry in the US is obese and another one-third of the adult populace is overweight. The most recent projections are that by 2020 Three quarters of the grownup citizenry of the U.S.A. will be overweight or obese.

The trend of severe obesity (Body mass index greater than 40) more than doubled during the era of the 90's. The ramifications to one's health for being overweight include raised risk of developing:


  • Cardiovascular disease leading to high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes

  • Type 2 diabetes leading to blindness, infections, neuropathies and untimely death

  • Elevated levels of blood fats

  • More than 20 different cancers

  • Muscle and skeletal disorders

  • Sleep apnea

  • Infertility and complications in pregnancy

  • Poor surgical outcomes

  • Depression and other psychological problems

  • Social disabilities



In 2010 investigators at The Brookings Institute estimated that the yearly direct healthcare costs of obesity in the US are $147 billion for adults and another $14.3 billion for children. A further
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome Relief But No Cure
By Emma Sundstromma

  when we have a disease or condition with no known cause, it is almost a given that we have no known cure. When there is no known cure, the best we can do is to try to alieviate the symptoms in an attempt to suppress the condition. Getting relief from the symptkms does not mean that the condition has been treated, merely that the symptoms are for the moment lessened or non existant.

This is the case for the condition called Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Many studies have been done on Irritable bowel syndrome, but allopathic medicine has not been able to pinpoint a cause, thus we are left with trying to find relief from the symptoms instead of a cure. This is quite typical for chronic diseases. While there MAY be a cause that has been found, allopathic medicine usually will use some drug to keep the disease at bay.

There are a number of facta about the nature of irritable bowel syndrome that has been doscovered. One of the functions of the gastro intestinal tract is to contract and relax in
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