Continued from: The Weight-Loss Surgery: Liposuction.

Who can have Gastric Lap-Band: The extremely obese (those with a BMI of 40 or above who are about 100 pounds overweight).

Those with a BMI between 35 and 40 may be considered if other conditions such as severe sleep apnea or severe diabetes are present.

What Gastric Lap-Band surgery entails: An inflatable band is placed around the top part of the stomach.

Attached to the band is a piece of tubing, which is attached to an access port located just under the skin of the stomach. (more…)

Sugar-free fiber drink ad campaigns often target the elderly to help “keep them regular.”

But the idea is good for more than just those collecting Social Security — fiber also keeps you leaner.

Fiber acts like a sponge, attracting water in the stomach, and a greater volume of water in the gut increases the feeling of being full.

Fiber also stimulates glucose receptors on muscle cells, which indirectly lowers insulin levels. (more…)

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Spinach may help prevent birth defects and heart disease, as well as blindness.

Spinach is loaded with iron and folate, which help prevent birth defects and heart disease, and two phytochemicals which help prevent macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

Tomatoes may help reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and some cancers.

Tomatoes are rich in the antioxidant lycopene, which may help reduce your risk of coronary heart disease, breast cancer, lung cancer, and prostate cancer.

Cooking tomatoes helps activate lycopene. The same benefits are available in tomato sauce and tomato paste. (more…)

Eva Longoria’s wedding-day diet and workout With less than three months to go before she marries fiancé Tony Parker in France on July 7, Eva Longoria is determined to be in the best shape of her life!

During her wedding-day countdown, Eva’s strict diet has her cutting out sweet treats like cupcakes and sticking to high-protein foods like grilled fish and chicken, high-fiber foods like brown rice and whole-grain pastas and fruit. And she’s drinking more water, too.

Unlike most brides who try to shed pounds before they walk down the aisle, the 5’2â€? Eva isn’t looking to lose weight, but wants to gain lean muscle and tone her slim figure so she’ll look fabulous in her wedding dress.

So she’s amping up her workouts as well. “I do squats and lunges — anything for my butt. My big concern is gravity taking its toll,” says Longoria. (more…)

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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome Micropsia is a disorienting neurological condition where people perceive things to be smaller than they actually are and possibly far away or extremely close. (more…)

It seems you just can’t win with fish these days. Dietary experts advise avoiding wild fish because they often contain high levels of mercury, nutritionists broadcast health fears linked to eating farmed fish, and environmentalists worry about which species are about to disappear off the planet.

But fish remains an excellent source of relatively fast-digesting whole-food protein, which means it’s time for some truth talk about fish fears. (more…)

What does renowned heart surgeon Mehmet Oz do to keep his own weight and heart in check? Here is Dr. Oz’s diet plan:

Dr. Oz’s diet “I don’t really eat big meals, but I eat continually,” he says.

His mainstays are heart-healthy and fiber-rich foods that help keep him full all day.

For grazing, Oz lives on nuts (an Iowa Nurses Study found that eating 1 ounce a day cut the incidence of heart disease by up to 60 percent), bananas (potassium has been shown to slow the aging of your arteries and help regulate blood pressure), and baby carrots (they’re packed with nutrients, and the high crunch factor makes a good snack). (more…)

New mom Tori Spelling, who gained 40 pounds when pregnant with son Liam, is determined to lose her baby weight. Tori’s diet?

She regularly exercises with her husband and was recently seen ripping open a NutriSystem bar with her teeth. She must be hungry!

“When the time is right, I will diet with NutriSystem and work out,â€? she has said. Well, I guess that time has arrived. (more…)