Tackling the new epidemic - Obesity
What is obesity?
Obesity is characterized by an increase in the size and number of fat cells in the body, which leads to an excessive accumulation of body fat. On average, overweight and obese individuals have higher blood glucose and cholesterol values – they are also prone to developing heart diseases (including cancer), and diseases of the joints as well.
Weight to height ratio is a simple and widely acceptable method, which estimates the total body mass rather than fat mass and correlates with the amount of body fat. BMI of 25-30 is considered as an indication of overweight. Overweight is excessive storage of fat in the body. Each gram of this store generates about 9 calories when burnt. If your food supplies 9 calories less than the bodies requirement you will reduce 1 gram of weight as body will burn that one gram fat to generate the calories for energy.
What is the solution for obese patients?
Individuals having a Body Mass Index of 25-30 are considered obese, while individuals having a Body Mass Index of 35 are considered morbidly obese – such individuals might suffer from various other diseases like blood pressure, diabetes, hypertension, joint aches etc., which are all concomitants of obesity.
Bariatric (Weight Loss) Surgery offers a new ray of hope for the morbidly obese patients to enjoy a normal and healthy life.
The following are the candidates for weight loss surgery:
· Individuals who have repeatedly tried and failed with dieting.
· Individuals with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 35 i.e. approximately 50kg than the ideal weight or more and health-related conditions including high blood pressure, diabetes, joint disease, depression, or others.
Bariatric (weight loss) Surgery promotes weight loss through two different methods:
Gastric Banding is a procedure in which the stomach is neither opened nor stapled. The band creates an hourglass shaped stomach having a small upper pouch with a narrow outlet. The new small upper gastric pouch restricts the amount of food stomach can hold and that can be consumed at one time. So one feels full and satisfied after a small meal. The narrowed outlet increases the time it takes for the stomach to empty. One therefore feels full for a longer time with no desire to eat.
Gastric Bypass (Roux-en-Y surgery) reduces the capacity of the stomach by creating a small stomach pouch. The procedure also constructs a tiny stomach outlet, which slows the speed by which food leaves your stomach. So one feels full after eating a small amount and will stay satisfied for a long time.
On average, patients lose 65-85% percent of excess body weight within one year after surgery.
Because surgery is such an effective method of long-term weight loss, most patients experience profound improvements in their health. Many of the health problems associated with obesity (overweight) are resolved after weight loss surgery.
Helping the patient reduce weight, cures him of various other ailments like:
· Type 2 Diabetes
· Obstructive sleep apnea
· High blood pressure
Other conditions that may be greatly improved after surgery is GI disorders like acid reflux, joint pains, swollen legs/skin ulcers, depression, menstrual irregularities and infertility. Countries like India, Singapore, Malaysia offer medical tourism service that offers obesity/ weight-loss related surgeries at a far more affordable price than that available in the United States. The popularity of medical tourism is on the rise since it has become the preferred mode of seeking treatment for all those patients who belong to countries where medical procedures are both expensive and difficult to access.
Healing Colors DVD…Can it be the Solution to Electromagnetic Pollution?
There is a new player on the alternative medicine playing field, and if customer reactions are any indication, Alternative Two will soon be a major contender. Alternative Two has devised a way to protect the human bio-field from electromagnetic pollution through its color therapy video � Healing Colors DVD.
If you're like the typical person living in modern society, there is not a time during your typical day when you are not exposed to electromagnetic fields (EMF). Scientists estimate that your daily exposure to EMF radiation is 100 million times higher than it was in your grandparents' time. What consequence does this type of invisible presence have on your ability to function? Research shows that these fields have a significant disruptive effect on your natural energy levels. They magnify your body's "flight or fight" responses and significantly reduce your ability to cope effectively. Long-term exposure to EMF has been linked to heart disease, cancer, brain tumors and other diseases. What can you do? There's just no escaping exposure, oftentimes at dangerous levels, to EMF.
Alternative Two claims that by watching Healing Colors DVD you can protect yourself from the detrimental effects of EMF. Each Healing Colors DVD contains harmonic energy frequencies. When the disc is played, these frequencies transfer from the TV screen to the viewer through the air and become embedded in the person�s bio-field. In the Healing Colors DVD, Alternative Two has combined the principals of energy medicine with the ancient healing art of color therapy. Color therapy is used to introduce these frequencies to the body through the chakras � its energy centers.
According to the DVD creator, Dwight Vega, Healing Colors strengthens the human bio-field and alleviates the discord in one�s body by reducing the effects of EMF. Customers that have watched Healing Colors DVD claim they felt stronger, more energetic, more balanced and less stressed.
For more information about Healing Colors DVD, please visit http://www.healingcolorsdvd.com.
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Inna Prodan is the Vice President of Alternative Two Inc.
http://www.healingcolorsdvd.com
Physician Peer Reviews: What You Can Do With Bad Results
Are you in a charge of running a healthcare center, like a hospital or a doctor’s office? If you are, you may be interested in having your physicians reviewed, at one point or another. A physician peer review is a great way to know whether the physicians working for you are working to the best of their ability. The only question is what do you do with bad physician peer review results?
When it comes to dealing with poor physician peer review results, you may never even have to deal with the problem. One of the reasons for that is because there are many physicians who work to the best of their ability and then some. There is a good chance that the physicians who work for you are the same way, but it is always nice to know what to do if one of your physicians isn’t meeting your expectations.
If the physician peer review results you received from an outside peer reviewing company where not what you had hoped for you, you have a number of different options. One of your first thoughts may be to get rid of the physician who is causing the problems. Of course, it is your decision to make, but you may want to use removal only as a last resort. There are actually a number of better alternatives that can be used. Plus, it is actually important to note that one bad review doesn’t make a physician a bad one.
Depending on the physician peer review company that you choose to do business with, you should be given detailed documents of all reviews. If you are given these extra documents, you will want to read through them all. This will help give you more insight into one of your physician’s peer reviews, instead of just a positive or a negative marking. Also, the notes written by the reviewer can actually be used for your own benefit. You may not necessarily think about it at the time, but a physician peer review can also be used as training for all healthcare workers, including physicians, as it can let you in on areas that need to be improved and by whom.
Should you get a physician in your establishment who ends up with a poor physician peer review rating, you may want to think about setting up a meeting with the physician in question. In fact, if all of your employees where reviewed, you may want to think about letting them all know about their review results. If at all possible though, especially when improvements need to be made, you should go over peer reviews in person. Should improvements need to be made, you can discuss those improvements, like being nicer to patients or working to improve wait times. You may also want to speak to the physician in question to see if they remembered the day that they underwent a physician peer review. You never really know, but they may have just been having a rare, bad day.
The above mentioned approaches are just a few of the many ways that you can go about handling a negative or poor physician peer review. As a reminder, you are advised to think positive; until you actually get the results, you never really know how well they may turn out.
Written by Damien Scher. Find the latest information on a Physician Peer Review.
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