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SAN FRANCISCO - People who had obesity surgery got drunk after just one glass of red wine, researchers reported in a small study that was inspired by an episode on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

"A lot of people think they can have one glass of wine and be OK," said Dr. John Morton, assistant professor of surgery at Stanford University Medical Center, who is the study's lead author. "The concern here is they really can't."

Morton has performed more than 1,000 gastric bypass, or stomach stapling, surgeries. He said he routinely warns his patients about drinking alcohol, but it wasn't until Winfrey discussed the issue on her show last October that the public really took notice. He said questions poured in.
"I didn't find a whole lot in the literature, so that prompted the study," he said.
The research team gave 36 men and women - 19 who had obesity surgery and 17 who did not - almost 150 millilitres of red wine each to drink in 15 minutes. Using a breathalyzer, their alcohol levels were measured every five minutes until it returned to zero.
More than 70 per cent of the surgery patients hit a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 per cent, which qualifies as legally intoxicated in California, and two reached levels above .15, Morton said.
By contrast, most of the control group had levels below 0.05 per cent, the study reported.
Researchers also found that obesity patients took longer to sober up. After matching the control group with the patient group for age, gender and weight, they found the patients took 108 minutes on average to return to a zero blood-alcohol level versus 72 minutes for the control group.

Morton said the obesity surgery patients don't produce as much of an enzyme that breaks down alcohol because their stomachs are smaller. Also, the alcohol passes to their small intestine faster, speeding up absorption, he said.
The findings, which were presented recently at a meeting of bariatric surgeons, highlight an important warning for obesity patients: "Never have more than a couple of glasses in a single sitting, and don't drive afterward," Morton said.
Meg Semrau, a nurse co-ordinator of Stanford's bariatric program who had gastric bypass surgery herself more than three years ago, said she noticed her tolerance for alcohol was lower after surgery.

"I literally feel it within a couple of sips now," she said. "Flushing in the face, a kind of disequilibrium."

While some experts took issue with the study's size and methodology, they said it basically confirmed what they had suspected for some time: People who have gastric bypass surgery are more sensitive to alcohol.
Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom, director of the weight management centre at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said Morton's results support alcohol warnings normally given to gastric bypass patients. However, she called drinking almost 150 millilitres of wine in 15 minutes an "artificial" test. No one - let alone bariatric surgery patients - would be advised to drink that amount of alcohol so quickly, she said.
In fact, Fernstrom said patients are discouraged from drinking alcohol because it is a "waste of calories."

"Alcohol is not part of a healthful diet for gastric bypass surgery patients," she said. "If this is a pleasant part of life to certain people on special occasions, it must be monitored and discussed with their surgeon."

Via: CTV.ca

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Rocker Courtney Love has been ordered by her doctor to quit smoking, following the discovery of nodules in her throat.

The former Hole frontwoman will now have to undergo surgery in the next 12 months unless she gives up cigarettes.

Love recently lost 23.6 kilograms (52 pounds) and is worried she will pile the weight back on if she quits smoking.

The 42-year-old writes on her website: "He (the doctor) guessed exactly how much I smoke too and told me I'll have to get surgery.

"I need to stop unless ... I want surgery in a year, and two or three days off on tour is not economically feasible, so my thin phase is gonna go soon."


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Occasionally throughout history, there have been men and women who have risen up from seeming obscurity to challenge the precepts we consider unchallengeable, to investigate and discover, and to apply their new-found knowledge for the betterment of mankind, no matter what the personal cost - Rudolf Breuss was such a man.

A passionate man, Rudolf Breuss cared greatly for the health and well-being of all mankind, and was infatuated by the prospect of discovering an alternative cure for cancer and other serious diseases - to him it seemed an oxymoron that maiming an individual through surgery could possibly be considered a cure. He was quoted as saying "To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation." And I totally agree with him.

Rudolf Breuss, a natural healer, was a most extraordinary man who devoted his long life to helping people. At my opinion, he was the greatest natural healer ever. Born in 1899 into an impoverished Austrian family, he had a desire to help at a very early age. His eager young mind absorbed every snippet of knowledge he could lay his hands on. He educated himself by reading books and attending lectures whenever he could - a practice he maintained throughout his life.

At age 81, he was taken to court and accused of being a fraud and a quack by the anti-cancer industry. Breuss' defence attorney - himself a cancer sufferer cured by Breuss - presented a number of cured patients to testify that they would be dead without Breuss and his Total Cancer Treatment program. Their testimony so overwhelmingly supported Breuss' claims, that he was acquitted on all counts.

Breuss passed away in 1991, aged 92, but he left a legacy that will remain with humanity until disease and sickness are no more.


Theory

Cancer can only live on the protein of solid food. Therefore, if you drink nothing but vegetable juice and teas for 42 days the cancerous tumor dies off while the body continues to do well.

This therapy can be done with either homemade juices or with fermented vegetable juices from a health food store.

Raw fruit and vegetable juices have always been used and recommended in natural medicine as part of the healing system for many ailments and chronic complaints. Raw juices contain antioxidants and living enzymes that science has identified as an imperative part of everyone's diet if they wish to stay healthy and maintain a defense against all the toxins of today's environment.

It is against this backdrop that Rudolf Breuss developed his Total Cancer Treatment, utilising the therapeutic properties of vegetable juices and herbal teas that have been implicated in the cure of many types of cancer.

Throughout the fast, a juice cocktail made from organically-grown beetroot, carrot, Chinese radish, celeriac and potato was taken, to detoxify and cleanse the body, and to stimulate the patient's disease-fighting capabilities. Herbal teas were also an essential part of Breuss' treatment program, with a range of blends designed to target specific illnesses.
The results were staggering. Throughout his career Breuss received over 45,000 testimonials from people who had been cured of cancer, leukaemia and many other seemingly incurable diseases, through the Total Cancer Treatment. Despite this incredible success there were those in the medical world who wanted him stopped.

Rudolf Breuss's best selling book The Breuss Cancer Cure has been translated into 5 languages and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, spreading his message of hope to every corner of the planet.

The Breuss Cancer Cure is essential reading for every family. It not only provides a proven solution to one of the most feared diseases on earth, but it gives you an amazing insight into exactly what cancer is and what you need to do to prevent it. You can buy this book on Amazon for 11$ -12$.

It really makes me mad, when I see people are dying every day from all kinds of cancers. It makes me mad, because I know, that no one would have to die. If the world wouldn't be so poisoned with the pharmaceutic industy and science medicine, people wouldn't dying from this desease. Because I personally know a lot of people, who cured their cancer without chemoterapies and medicine treatment. And I knew a lot of them, who died, because they believed so much in science medicine and their doctors. Like doctors are gods. But we all know they are not.

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Scientists have uncovered what may be the fountain of youth for aging muscles.

It's not a pill, but a routine.

Scientists at the Buck Aging Institute in California and at McMaster University Medical Center in Canada have uncovered evidence that exercise helps rejuvenate aging muscles.

Study participants followed nearly the same schedule, performing mostly resistance exercises including light weight training, twice a week. The scientists say after six months the gene expression profile of muscle tissue, a measure of aging among older adults, was reversed back to levels similar to those found in the younger adults.

Muscle strength also improved.

Researchers plan to study the impact on other parts of the body, and say these findings validate exercise as a true-anti-aging medicine, and strenghten the message that it is truly never too late to start working out.

The scientists say that keeping muscles young is important, noting that after age forty, the body starts losing muscle mass which is important for strength, balance and overall health.

Researchers note that the older adults in the study were weight training novices and this study should encourage even the diehard couch potato.

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Retired supermodel Tyra Banks has lost 30 pounds in five months after photographs of her beachwear left her in tears on her TV talk show.

Banks insisted the shots of her in a bikini during a winter break were just taken from a bad angle as she launched a "So what" campaign on her TV show and urged the tabloids to stop poking fun at stars' weight loss and weight gain.

At one point she broke down on her show, stating, "With all the self-esteem my mom instilled in me, the criticism still hurts."

But the terrible photographs forced Banks to take action -- and, after months spent eating right and exercising, she has dropped 30 pounds, according to Life and Style magazine.

An insider tells the publication, "She's eating healthy foods, but they're ones she likes, so she's more apt to maintain her diet."

And she's completely revamped the food that's available to her and guests backstage at her show.

Marcellas Reynolds, a frequent guest on "The Tyra Banks Show," adds, "The craft-service table is now entirely absent of junk food and carbs. All you see are lean turkey sandwiches and loads of fresh-cut veggies and fruit.

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All-new rumors are bouncing around Hollywood today about the once curvy Courtney Love’s new skeletal frame.

But is the rocker fibbing about how she lost 45 pounds?

Love says no, and she is beating down reports on her website that she underwent gastric band surgery.

Rather, Courtney maintains she dropped the weight the old-fashioned way: through rigorous exercise and a diet of veggies and fish.

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That’s the message from CBS anchor Katie Couric, and it’s no joke.

Couric is trying to bring awareness to the same disease that killed her husband, Jay Monahan: colon cancer.

The famous news anchor invited “Extra” to a bowling benefit for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance in New York, where she got together with friends and supporters to strike out cancer.

“I always tell people to get their butts to the doctor – literally,” Couric said. “We’re just trying to raise awareness and encourage people to talk with their doctors about this disease and find out how it can be prevented.”

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Brave Farrah Fawcett is battling cancer once again, and the star came only to “Extra” to confirm her new heartbreak.

The news comes just three months after doctors declared her cancer free.

Despite feeling back to her old self, doctors discovered a tiny new cancerous polyp during Farrah’s routine 3-month checkup.

Still, the courageous actress is going to fight.

There is some good news – Farrah told “Extra” she will not have to undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatments again.

Instead, doctors are trying a revolutionary new treatment.
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