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Patient Teams Up With Ethicon Endo-Surgery as She Embarks on Her Weight Loss Journey With the Help of Innovative …
Tracy Mitchell, a 35-year-old married mother of four who has been struggling with her weight for over 12 years, is teaming up with Ethicon Endo-Surgery to launch “Heart on My Sleeve,” a real-life documentary series which will provide a glimpse into her life as she confronts her health issues, takes control and learns to live her life after bariatric surgery. Â Tracy began her struggle with …

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Weight issues, help me out?

April 4, 2011 By 2 Comments

I’m 15, female, 5’11 and 215 lbs. I don’t eat EXTREMELY healthily but i haven’t seen fast food in months, the occasional slice of cake or bowl of ramen noodles are the worst things i can think of that i eat, other than that fruits, vegetables, and a healthy amount of protein everyday. Same with exercise, i don’t work out on a regular basis but i live on a stables, so i ride horses and get more than 2 miles of walking everyday just bringing them to and from the pastures, so why is it then, that i’m still fat? I know i’m tall but i still have a gut and you could carve an average 15 yr old kid from my thighs, it’s disgusting. I’ve tried dieting but the most i’d ever lose is 10 maybe 15 lbs and then i’d stop losing any, i’d still keep with my diet though, but after 3 or 4 months of no change, who could blame me for stopping? Also, i have a slightly irregular heart beat so i can’t exactly go to the gym and work out for two hours, a half an hour on the treadmill at a jog is all i can stand, otherwise i’d literally pass out from not enough blood reaching my brain, it’s happened before, from when i tried to exercise more consistently. Am i just forever doomed to be overweight? Or is there some kind of tip i’m totally missing the memo on? I know im still young, and my weight may even out as i get older, but for those of you who have gone through or are still in high school, you know how tough it can be, and pressure for drugs and alcohol is bad enough, but i also have to deal with constant criticisms of my size. Really if i could just get and hold my weight to 180 i would be bouncing off the walls in joy, can anyone help me get there? Or at least give me some advice on starting down the right road?

Also, please, I appreciate the kind comments, but i don’t want to hear the “You’re perfect just the way you are!” speech, I want help, not lies.

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Losing Weight? Please Help.?

April 4, 2011 By 4 Comments

I’m not going to say my weight but lets just say it’s above 250.
I’ve been this way most of my life,
but i’m tired of it.

I wear a jacket everyday to school,
in hot weather because i’m too unconfident to walk down a hallway without one.

I love fashion,
but cant wear what I want because it either doesn’t come in my size,
or it looks terrible on me.

And today I had a terrible day,
it seemed no matter where I went,
I was shunned for my weight,
even by friends.

I had a kid sit by me on the bus, and say “ew”.
I felt like a waste of space.

Normally I’m very confident emotionally,
but I just lost it the second I go home.

So anyways,
what are some things I can eat that will help me to be healthier?
If you’re dieting, please give me some tips.

Thanks ._.

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Help boyfriend lose weight? Please help! (airforce)?

April 2, 2011 By 2 Comments

Recently, my boyfriend has moved in with my family (Dad, three little brothers, and myself). My dad and brothers are not the healthiest of people, we as a family eat a lot of junk food and my dad and brothers eat that plus fast food 4 or 5 times a week (i need an answer other than ‘cut out fast food’ because thats a given!) lol Anyway, back to my boyfriend. He is a senior in high school and needs to cut down weight because his plan is to go into the airforce right after he graduates. A few months back he was saying how he needed to lose around 50 lbs by that time to be able to go to basic training. He has kept putting it off and putting it off and now here we are, almost November with not a lot to show for it. He goes running every now and then (he claimed he NEEDED an ipod or mp3 to be more motivated while he runs so he will go further… so we got him an ipod, there goes that excuse!) I feel like he looked a little slimmer at one point but im afriad he has gained it right back….

He is in shape, just needs to cut down pounds fast! Its not like he’s some fat kid that can’t run…

What i need to know is:
-How can i make him man up and get this done! (i know ‘i cant make him do it’ & ‘i cant do it for him”… need better answers)
-I’m cleaning out my family’s kitchen! No more swiss cake rolls! What kind of foods should i buy for him?
-I feel like i could help him better if there was a certain diet i was concentrating on. like rules i could follow and certain foods i can keep him away from and vertain foods i should make him eat.
-if you can give me a certain diet, i need meal ideas (easy, please!) that i can cook for him and my family.
-does anyone have a good daily schedule that works well for them? I drive him to school in the mornings and he needs to be showered and ready to leave by about 6:50. & 3 or 4 times a week he works in the after noon, about 3:45 to 9:00pm average…
-anyother diet tips, planning meal tips, schedule tips or ANYTHING else?

I know this is rather long and out of order and looks like chaos, but i am very upset right now and need to get this thing moving for not only his future, but also OUR future. He will be proposing sometime next month…. i dont want to marry someone if i feel like they cant ‘take care’ of me, pursay…

thank you!
Julia- wowwww after i clearly said, so do not tell me i cant make him lose the weight, im not stupid. and after i CLEARLY stated he is going into the airforce… thanksss…..

& what is he going to do when were married??? hmmmm…. be in the airforce???? (: be a husband…. uhmmmm stupid question.

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I am taking a biology class and my teach gave this to us to take home. any help would be appreciated!?

March 27, 2011 By 1 Comment

1. How do you make Adenosine from the fish and beans you ate at Polio Tropical?
a. can’t, nothing came out of it except feaces/ or feces
b. no new proteins were or will be made
c. more enzymes were formed to compensate for the fecal loss
d. a 5-C sugar will be bonded to adenine if Gibb’s EN is available
e. transferase peptidase will take over adenosine tri phosphate, and adds Gibb’s free EN to it.
ab. pentose sugar will bond to EN (G) before ATP forms AMP or AP

2. How do you make an enzyme
a. no way, can’ do that
b. give a tip to the bar tender, he will just hook it up for you in a blender, Ta – daaaah!, no
questions asked
c. just take a beer, you already have it in there
d. boil proteins, and add Water, then filter, what’s left = enzyme
e. ase + protein = enzyme
ab. Protein – psa = enzyme

3. Glucose is needed for energy metabolism, what enzyme is needed to form this glucose if you ate table sugar?
a. nothing
b. glucose
c. sucrase
d. maltase
e. lactase

4. If death is the end of life, how do you know that some thing is living?
a. if they do not metabolize why
b. life has no definition, tough!
c. any living thing must definitely locomote to be called “living thing”
d. do you ask me? You know the answer, I am not the teacher
e. if that thing obeys cell theory

5. Apart from IBS/insulin binding sites, what’s needed for sugar to leave your stomach directly and goes straight into your cells so that your blood sugar may reach an equilibrium level?
a. insulin
b. can’t do that
c. power house
d. ribosomes
e. chlorophyll
ab. nothing is needed, only simple diffusion, that’s all

6. You need insulin for sugar to get into your cells for EN metabolism, where does insulin come from?
a. IBS
b. islets cells
c. pancreas
d. liver
e. chlorophyll
ab. some times it just shows up like that and then “puff” it goes away; like in “now you see it,
now you don’t”; Amazing?

7. What will happen if too much sugar is withdrawn from your blood into your cell?
a. hypoglycemia sets in
b. hyperglycemia starts
c. hypertension starts
d. hypocholesterolemia will happens
e. hypotension starts

8. Under what condition can # 7 take place if other things are OK?
a. if the person eats too much carbohydrates (carbs)
b. under an unmarried single parent with 3 kids condition
c. defective IBS condition that traps the insulin on the membrane
d. if too little insulin is produced
e. if pancreas fails to produce insulin from its cells

9. What are your genes made of?
a. codons/codes
b. RNA
c. d. chromosomes
e. nothing but cells
ac. Made up of money man Madoff

10. If prokaryotic cells are not nucleated, but have one thing in common with your cells, then that thing must be:
a. large vacuoles
b. golgies
c. nucleoplasm
d. ribosomes
e. endoplasmic reticulum

11. If your house plant by the window grows towards the light, how did it do that?
a. locomotion
b. translation
c. it was chasing the fly that flew in through the window
d. No, it was not a fly but a bee that came to its flower
e. rotation

12. In energy metabolism, which of the given is anabolic in action?
a. ATP ——–? ADP + P + EN + IR
b. C6 H12 O6 ———? 6CO2 + H2O + EN
c. Carbs ——?disaccharides ………………….> mono saccharides
d. ADP + Pi + EN ———-?ATP
e. proteins ——? mono saccharides

13. Inside you right now, metabolisms are taking place leaving behind trails of actions. Which of these trails of metabolites are used in your blood tests to identify how healthy or otherwise , you are?
a. sugars
b. all of the given
c. proteins
d. cholesterol
e. enzymes
ab. none of the given

14. What other name can you use to correctly stand for energy metabolism in living things?
a. reproduction
b. respiration
c. EN of life
d. perspiration
e. replication
ac. none is correct

15. If food proteins – hamburgers – are not monomers, then they should be …………?
a. glucose
b. monosaccharides
c. poly-structures
d. simple food molecules, like others
e. pure lipids

16. What happens as your glucose gets into your cell’s cytoplasm?
a. it is greeted with a big bang
b. will be prepared and sent to mitochondria
c. if needed, it is sent to blood serum, to go back to the stomach – ‘back to the sender”
d. if not needed, then it just disappears because there are too many of them
e. glucose does not get into the cytoplasm at all, it is hyperglycemia

17. Name all the sex organs that are in the world as of today.
a. testes
b. anthers
c. uterus
d. ovaries
e. penis
ac. vagina
acd. anthlers
acb. breasts
ace. labia
bce. Oh my! I forgot sperms

18. 17. Name all the sex cells that are discovered in the world as of today.
a. testes
b. anthers
c. uterus
d. ovaries
e. penis
ac. vagina
acd. anthlers
acb. breasts
ace. labia
bce. Oh my! I forgot sperms

19.. If a male corn sex cell from Boca is blown to a female corn flower in Delray, wh

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Orphaned Baby Robins! Please help/ read!?

March 23, 2011 By 4 Comments

Hi, out in our very front tree, near the walkway which is totally concrete was a robin’s nest and my cat got up there and scared her away and took one of her babies(we are assuming) and we got it when it was still alive and had no holes in him(yet). So we put him back up in the nest and today we go out and find all three chicks laying on the ground..one was dead and the other two were cut up a bit. so we buried the dead one and took the other two in and they are living in a big shoebox. i found like 50 small worms and cut some up into half CM pieces so the chicks could eat them. im assuming they are a week or so old. i found this really good pair of kids plastic toy pliers(needle nose) and i have been using those as a makeshift beak with the worm on the end. i say “PEEPERS” and they both get up and chirp and open their mouth for food, it’s really cute, but they both have some pretty bad cuts and their eyes arent even open yet so i feed them every hour and they sleep alot. we brought their nest out of the tree and put that in the box so it’s like they are sleeping in the tree. how do i be like a good mother to them, i really don’t want them to die. i want to keep myself healthy too, the one rolled over and got a bit of blood on me(i washed it off) so will i be fine? i had a hangnail off the side of my finger that it got on. So basically what im asking is:

-how do i keep their cuts clean and non-infected?
-i keep washing my hands, is there any way i can get sick from them?
-what should i feed them as they get older?
-can i leave them for eight hours without food?(while i sleep)

ANY tips would be verryy helpful! and any stories too.
lol sorry its so long!

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help growing watermelons?

March 19, 2011 By 4 Comments

so about 2 weeks ago i bought a jiffy kids garden watermelon thing. the only thing the cup said was to add water and thats all i did and left it on my kitchen windowsil. well i put too much water in it at first and the cup is kinda moldey and i was wondering if i need to put them in something else? the plants started growing (there is three of them each about 2 inches tall) but the leaves are starting to get brownish on the tips of the leaves. is there a way to make them green again and to keep them healthy?

i dont know how to grow anything i tried last year with some other little kit that i bought at target but the bunnys ate them as soon as i put them outside and this year i dont want that to happen. so i was hoping for tips/advise on that as well.

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I need to tweak my gym routine. Can anyone with experience help me out?

March 19, 2011 By 1 Comment

I consider myself a decently healthy eater and I enjoy working out. I go to the gym 3-5 times a week, depending on the family schedule for the week, and I really enjoy running and free-weights.
Here is my dilemma: I lost 35lbs over the course of 4 months, but I am stuck. I’m not thin, and I don’t think I look fit, either. I have 2 small kids and I have the inevitable mommy body. Flabby middle and all. I weigh 140lbs and I am 5’6″. I don’t have a trainer, and can’t get one, so I am clueless as to what to do at the gym. I have looked online for some info but it mostly seems to be geared towards body-building or fad diet plans. It’s all greek to me and I don’t really know what I’m doing.

My usual gym visit consists of 30-50mins on the treadmill, between 5.5-6.5 mph. Average of 5.8. I can go higher but I’m really aiming for distance not speed. I would like to be able to do a half-marathon one day but it isn’t what I’m training for. I’m working on getting in shape first.
30-45mins of free weights. Usually I alternate and do one day upper body, one day crunches/abs, and one day lower body. I keep my reps to 10 or less and keep my weight high enough that I push for 3 or 4 sets, and I rest for 30-60 second between sets. My weight-lifting exercize repertoire is not impressive, either.

I feel like I eat well. I don’t eat sugar (aside from fruit), red meat or starch. I stick to fresh or lightly steamed veggies and try to eat frequent small meals and snacks.

I know I’m doing something wrong, and I admit that I am totally clueless and just guessing at what I should be doing. Does anyone have any advice or input on what I’m doing wrong and what I could do to rev it up and do things properly? I’m totally open to bulking up a little, while I don’t want to be big. I want to burn fat and be very lean and obviously toned. I’m looking for tips or input from people with experience. Thank you in advance if you decide to tackle my issue! :)

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My toddler won’t sleep at all! HELP!?

March 9, 2011 By 1 Comment

My little boy will be 2 years old in May. He goes through phases with his sleep patterns. He went through months of sleeping through the night, from 7pm to 7am, then there were phases when he’d wake up just once every night for a cuddle but went straight back to sleep, and very rarely, when he’s not well, he’d wake up and not go back to sleep for a few hours. So I do expect all kinds of things from him, and I’ve always thought that if he didn’t sleep well one week, he would make up for it the following week by sleeping 12 hours. At the end of the day, his body got the rest it needed.

On March 27th we left the UK, via Dubai for 3 days, to attend a wedding in Australia. He actually slept really well despite the jetlag and time difference. My parents live in Dubai and so grandma and grandpa were more than happy to spoil and dote on their grandson. He slept well both in Dubai and then for the 10 days we were in Australia.

We got back to Dubai about 10 days ago, and since then, my son has not slept at all. He seems to survive on 5 hours of sleep per night! He hardly naps, and when he does it’s 30-45mins. He goes down at 8.30pm, (I delayed his bedtime as I thought it might help him sleep in a bit later in the morning), but then he wakes up at 12.30am, every night – he could be on a timer! – stays awake until 5am, but then goes back down until 7am. He started doing this when we first arrived, waking up for 5mins, then it increased to 1 hour, then 2 hours, and now he’s up 5 hours in the night!

What baffles us all is that he doesn’t seem to get tired during the day despite the lack of sleep. He’s so hyper! We take him to the beach, to play groups, to childrens’ play areas, thinking that if we tired him out enough during the day, he’ll finally sleep through the night! Or at the very least, if he did wake up, it would only be for milk ora cuddle and he could go back to sleep. But nothing seems to work. He sleeps in a travel cot that my parents bought for him, with an extra thick mattress, so it’s really comfortable. And back in January when we visited, he slept in that cot perfectly well, and all through the night, so I don’t understand the change now?

We thought that it could be that he’s missing his father. Because of work, my husband had to go back to the UK, so my son and I have been with my parents, and we’re in Dubai until the first week of May. However, after 10 days, I thought he’d be used to it by now?

He’s also no longer eating well either. He can survive on cereal first thing in the morning, yet turns his nose up at everything else! It’s the same food we eat back home too! He won’t even eat a banana (or any other fruit for that matter!) And I don’t think it has anything to do with flavour, because this isn’t our firstr tip to Dubai – in fact it’s our 6th, and he’s always eaten well here. He was also fine with the different foods in Australia.

I don’t know what more I can do. He doesn’t seem unhappy. If being honest, I think he’s happier here than I’ve ever seen him. He’s outdoors a lot more, in the sun, enjoys the beach, swimming, etc… there’s lots to do here for kids, and he’s enjoying every moment – not to mention the endless amounts of attention and love he gets from various family members!

I can’t help but be worried now. Because even though he’s happy and healthy, he’s not sleeping and not eating! Is this normal?!

Thanks for your help.

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Help me! I’m a huge fatty and I need to loose weight! Is this a good idea?

February 28, 2011 By 13 Comments

I am 17 years old. I currently weigh around 180 lbs at 5’5″. I would, ideally, like to loose about 60 pounds, but I am flexible between a 40 to 60 pound weight loss goal (so that I weigh between 120 and 140 pounds).

I have been successful at removing soda and slurpees from my diet. I used to drink soda almost every day in addition to one or more 64 oz. Slurpees a week. I will, on occasion, drink a small coffee drink from Starbucks, and now that winter is approaching I have been having some apple cider (including sparkling cider). These are treats though, and I primarily drink water (with or without lemon or lime) and skim milk on occasion.

I have attempted different diets (including South Beach and Weight Watchers) with little success. I am hoping to find a way to loose weight that I can do without thinking about it too much.

I was wondering if the following two steps would be good habits to get into to start loosing weight:

1. At least half of my meal consists of fruit and/or vegetables
2. An hour long walk.

As far as the walk goes, now that the weather is colder, I will probably be walking in place while watching TV. Sometimes I will just march, but other times I will incorporate moves from the “Walk Away the Pounds” DVDs. Still, I will be intentionally active for 60 minutes each day (and I will increase to moderate jogging as I get into better shape). In addition to walking, I will be playing Wii Sports and using the Wii Fit often.

In order to eat enough vegetables, I will have to make sacrifices. This will mean cutting down on unhealthy foods-including french fries (which are a weakness of mine).

I cannot completely eliminate fast food. I go out to lunch with my youth pastor and some kids from my youth group on Sundays and it usually means fast food. The most I can do is eat smaller portions and try to eat some healthier alternatives.

In addition, for the most part when I go out to eat (aside from Sunday afternoons), I share portions with a friend…and we often leave leftovers behind.

So, are these good tips to help me loose weight?

1. At least one hour of at least marching in place in front of the TV
2. Half a plate of veggies per meal
3. 64 or more ounces of water per day
4. Limiting self to “Kids Meal” sized portions when fast food is unavoidable.

Thanks for the help.

Also, if you have any success stories on weight loss, diet tips, or anything of the sort please let me know.

And keep in mind that these are just ideas to get me STARTED in loosing weight. I will be doing some jogging and more intense exercises in addition to the minimum of 60 minutes of basic walking. As I get into better exercise habits, I will start to jog more.

As time goes on I will increase the intensity of my exercise, but for now I just want to get into the habit of being up and moving for 60 minutes or more each day.
Curious, I did not give anybody a “thumbs down” on any of my questions today. Also, I know how to spell “lose.” I’m just a little sick today and I have been making a lot of typos. That was just one I did not catch.

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