GASTRIC BANDING

//////////Gastric Banding Brings Remission in Type 2 Diabetes


Gastric banding far outperforms conventional therapy in achieving remission of type 2 diabetes, according to an industry-sponsored, preliminary study in JAMA.


Australian researchers randomized 60 obese patients (BMIs between 30 and 40) with type 2 diabetes to laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding or "best practice" conventional therapy. When assessed 2 years later, 73% of the surgical group had achieved remission versus 13% of the conventional-therapy group. Likewise, weight loss averaged 20% of baseline with surgery and 1.4% with conventional therapy.



////////////////////////////Exercise Capacity a Strong Predictor of Mortality in Men


Exercise capacity, measured by a treadmill test, strongly predicts men's risk for death, according to a large study released online in Circulation.


Nearly 16,000 male veterans — about 40% of them black — underwent treadmill exercise testing and then were followed for about 7.5 years. After adjustment for cardiac medications, age, and other risk factors, all-cause mortality risk fell by 13% for every 1-MET increase in exercise capacity.


Exercise capacity was a stronger predictor of death than were cardiovascular risk factors, age, or BMI. The findings were similar regardless of race or presence of cardiovascular disease.


The authors conclude that "exercise capacity should be given as much attention by clinicians as other major risk factors."

Circulation article (Free



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December 3rd, 2007 at 11:49 am
I spend much more time online, reading stories (my entertainment) on sites rather than reading books or mags. I can more easily find info, and try any game that I feel like on that day, rather than buying a game for $50 and then getting tired of it. Many sites such as http://www.fanfiction.net (stories) or http://www.justexpressing.com (stories, forum, games)




/////////////////////////////////MCLWP=It began three and a half billion years ago in a pool of muck, when a molecule made a copy of itself and so became the ultimate ancestor of all earthly life.

It began four million years ago, when brain volumes began climbing rapidly in the hominid line.

Fifty thousand years ago with the rise of Homo sapiens sapiens.
Ten thousand years ago with the invention of civilization.
Five hundred years ago with the invention of the printing press.
Fifty years ago with the invention of the computer.

In less than thirty years, it will end.




/////////////////////////////////The foods included in the non calorie diet:
Some of the foods which give you negative caloric effect are apples, blueberries, broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, chili peppers, cranberries, garlic, grape fruit, green beans, green cabbage, lemons, papayas, pine apples, spinach and straw berries.

The foods which are included in the negative calorie diet contain adequate vitamins and minerals which will produce the enzymes that are used to breakdown the calories in that foods and the calories which are already present in digestion. These foods have the negative caloric value due to its nutritional value.




/////////////////////////////////////..............read with interest this report about Indian Americans' charitable works in the Old Country,
because three years ago I made a one-hour documentary about some rich Ind. Americans giving back. One
was the retired president of Dupont running a school in a UP village for the poorest of the poor
farming folks; another was an ex-Am Airlines pilot, of Rajiv G. batch, who runs an NGO in Haryana.
The third was a former Wall Street exec. Ramesh Ramanathan who is trying to create an
American-style citizen control of city government in Bangalore.



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