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Diet Riot weight loss is a humorous, non diet approach to permanent weight loss. Finally, Diet Freedom! Diets don’t work! U nsafe and expensive fad diets never work ! Diet
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Diet Pill That Works - Weight Loss Pill Reviews - Alli Diet Pill
The answer is yes. But there’s some scary (and, um, unsavory) info in the fine print. REDBOOK tells you what you must know about the new weight-loss drugs.
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Diet Reviews
Diet Reviews and Investigations . Reviews of a number of diet books and programs. Note that many of the user comments after the review can be enlightening.
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Add comment July 7th, 2008

State snubs doctors advice on health bill - Business Day South Africa

State snubs doctors advice on health bill - Business Day South Africa
CAPE TOWN The government signalled its determination yesterday to regulate private healthcare prices, publishing a revised version of the controversial National Health Amendment Bill that makes little concession to industry criticism of the
Source: www.businessday.co.za

5 percent of Mass. taxpayers uninsured, some hit with fine - Boston Globe
BOSTON Nearly 100,000 Massachusetts taxpayers have been hit with a new fine for failing to obtain health insurance, even as a major survey concludes the effort to create near-universal coverage is meeting key goals. Five percent of Massachusetts
Source: www.boston.com

State officials buoyed by health insurance penalty numbers - South Coast Today
BOSTON About 97,000 Massachusetts residents have been assessed a $219 tax penalty for not obtaining health insurance in the first year of the state’s new health care reform law, Gov. Deval Patrick and legislative leaders announced Monday. State
Source: www.southcoasttoday.com

Teachers may sue over health rebate - Concord Monitor
The Concord teachers union is considering legal action against the school district over what the union says is hundreds of thousands of dollars in health insurance money that should have been returned to teachers as a rebate. The union went public
Source: www.concordmonitor.com

OUR VIEW: Move health reform forward - South Coast Today
Few would dispute the moral victory of Massachusetts’ health care reform law, but with the cost to the state expected to nearly double in the program’s second year, controlling costs will become essential to the program’s survival. Since late 2006
Source: www.southcoasttoday.com

Beach closed due to high bacteria levels - Chicago Tribune
NEWPORT NEWS - King-Lincoln Beach in Newport News has been closed to swimming following water tests that showed high bacteria levels. A sign will be posted at the beach that reads, “Warning Swimmers: Bacteria levels do not meet State Water Quality
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Add comment June 3rd, 2008

Caution on new anti-obesity drug in kids

Anti-obesity drugs that work by blocking brain molecules similar to those in marijuana could also interfere with neural development in young children, as per a new study from MITs Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

Marijuana is known to be an appetite stimulant, and a new class of anti-obesity drugssuch as rimonabant (trade name Acomplia) developed by Sanofi-Aventis and awaiting approval for use in the United Stateswork by blocking brain receptors that bind to marijuana and other cannabinoids.

Marijuana, derived from the plant Cannabis sativa, contains special active compounds that are referred to collectively as cannabinoids. But other cannabinoids (endocannabinoids) are generated naturally inside the body.

The MIT study, which was done in mice, observed that blocking cannabinoid receptors could also suppress the adaptive rewiring of the brain necessary for neural development in children. The work is published in the May 8 issue of Neuron.

Our finding of a profound disruption of cortical plasticity in juvenile mice suggests caution is advised in the use of such compounds in children, wrote lead author Mark F. Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience.

The scientists investigated plasticitythe brains ability to change in response to experienceby temporarily depriving newborn mice of vision in one eye soon after birth. This well-known experiment induces a long-lasting loss of synapses that causes blindness in the covered eye, while synapses shift to the uncovered eye. How and where this synaptic shift occurs in the primary visual cortex has remained controversial.

Understanding the mechanism behind this phenomenon is key because the same brain mechanisms are used for normal development and may go awry in conditions that cause developmental delays in humans, and may reappear in old age and contribute to synaptic loss during Alzheimer’s disease, Bear said.

In mice, the MIT scientists found, even one day of deprivation from one eye starts the shift to dominance of the uncovered eye. But injecting the mice with a cannabinoid receptor blocker halted the shift in certain brain regions, indicating that cannabinoids play a key role in early synaptic development.

Blocking cannabinoids receptors could thwart this developmental process, the scientists said. Source