The concept of freelancing is really quite simple, but many people are confused about the nature of the work. Unfortunately, “freelancing” is often associated with the “starving artist” image, which simply isn’t the case anymore. You don’t have to be an out-of-work artist to become a freelancing entrepreneur. You just need talent and, if applicable, ...
The world is full of toxins these days. We find toxins in our food, our drinking water, our personal care products, in the very air we breathe. Our liver is responsible for filtering the toxins out of our bodies but it can be overwhelmed with all the toxins it must filter these days. Numerous health ...
The lap band is a device used to help patients use weight. It is an adjustable silicone band that is surgically placed around the stomach to restrict the amount of food the patient can consume. The surgeon can inflate the band by injected saline into it through a port that lies beneath the skin. That ...
There are not too many people who are familiar with gestational diabetes. Though it is a common problem, there are still a lot of points of this disease that the public are not familiar with. The simple definition of Gestational diabetes is when your blood sugar is too high while you are pregnant. Gestational diabetes ...
It seems like people always want to lose weight fast. That’s why there are so many fad diets out there, promising if you eat nothing but grapefruit or cabbage soup for a week, you can lose ten pounds. Really rapid weight loss is not always safe, however. If you want to meet your weight loss ...
The duodenal switch (DS) is both a restrictive and a malabsorptive surgery. The smaller stomach helps patients eat less food and the rearrangement of the intestine causes them not to absorb all the calories that they do eat. The rearrangement of the intestine also causes them not to absorb vitamins and minerals well. They generally ...