HealthDay - MONDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) — Daily doses of statins andblood pressure medications will not be enough to prevent heart diseaseamong the ever-growing number of Baby Boomers who are overweight or obese,a new study suggests.

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Title: Body Contouring Surgery Improves Category: Health News Created: 5/12/2008 Last Editorial Review: 5/12/2008

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Reuters - New research shows “alarming levels” of obesity in most ethnic groups in the United States, principal investigator Dr. Gregory L. Burke, of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina told Reuters Health. The study also confirms the potentially deadly toll obesity exacts on the heart and blood vessels.

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By anyone’s standards it is the most extraordinary transformation. The heavy-set woman photographed lumbering out of the sea in 2003 has gone. Step forward the new Jeanette Rooney, just in time for her son Wayne’s £3million wedding. Pictured at the weekend at the hen night of her soon to be daughter-in-law Coleen McLoughlin, Mrs Rooney, 41, has lost an incredible seven stone

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In the waiting room of a bustling plastic surgery practice, a woman in fatigues waits to talk about her upcoming procedures to plump her lips and liposuction her belly before she gets sent to Iraq.

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Obesity Surgery Reported by OPRAH, 60 Minutes, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine Fuels Demand and Confusion–Permanent Weight Loss Experts, iVital, Launch Seminar Series to Answer Questions for Those Suffering Weight-Related Symptoms–iVital Permanent Weight Loss Seminar Series Topics: Bariatric Surgery, Gastric …

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STOMACH surgery can cure obese diabetics of their twin diseases for the “bargain” price of $17,000, according to new figures surgeons hope will make the procedure more widely available.

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Birds do it. Bees do it. Even monkeys in the trees do it. Every species but the human species undertakes the natural physiological phenomenon of giv ing birth without medical intervention.

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Last year, 200,000 Americans had weight loss surgery and while gastric bypass surgery can significantly reduce weight, the surgery comes with risks. Now a procedure that was once commonly used to treat ulcers is being tested as a safe alternative to weight loss surgery.

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For the first time ever, individuals affected by obesity will have the opportunity to join together and have their voices heard. On June 17, 2008, the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) and American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Foundation will host a historic awareness event, the Walk from Obesity — Walk on the Capitol. Thousands will gather on the National Mall in …

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