Stretch Marks -- Treatment, Prevention, Remedy, Removal and Cure for Stretch Marks, Pregnancy Stretchmarks and Stretch Marks Due to Weight Loss

Stretch Marks -- Treatment, Prevention, Remedy, Removal and Cure for Stretch Marks, Pregnancy Stretchmarks and Stretch Marks Due to Weight LossProduct details: Unlike other stretch marks products, this is not a fancy cream or lotion. Our stretch marks product is an ancient Ayurveda method of natural remedy, removal, treatment, prevention and cure for stretch marks particularly those stretch marks caused by pregnancy and weight loss. It is a 100% natural herbal blend of rare, expensive medicinal plants and essential oils specifically meant for the removal prevention and treatment of stretch marks. There are absolutely no chemicals or preservatives. The product is in the form of a powder and has to be mixed with aloe vera gel or cucumber gel to prepare a paste before application. Product comes with gel.




Ingredients: Herbal blend contains the following herbs and essential oils. Click on any ingredient to see its medicinal use and value.
Sandalwood, Papaya, Aloes, Basil, Khus, Rose Oil, and Almond Oil. Plus, Aloe vera or cucumber Gel is added to prepare the herbal paste before it is used.

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Silver™ Slimming


Silver Slimming Patches are designed to reduce your hunger pangs immediately all in a simple patch using natural ingredients. 

What can Silver Slimming patches do you for you?

Easy and natural weight loss with no need to swallow a single tablet!

Instead you can experience the instant satisfaction of watching your hunger pangs and appetite disappear in the convenience of a daily patch.
100% organic ingredients
No pills to swallow, just put on a patch every 24 hours
4 week pack (28 patches)

How it works?

Silver Slimming Patches help speed up metabolism via an ingredient called Fucus Vesiculosus. This is an herbal ingredient which helps to speed up the body's metabolism resulting in less of the calories consumed being stored as fat and in the consumption of some of the fat one carries.

The secondary effect of Silver Slimming Patches is that of an appetite suppressant. Some individuals happen to have a large appetite. This can result in diet plans being foiled by irresistible desires to overeat or to snack between meals. Having one's appetite better controlled also enables one to be satisfied with smaller portions at regular meals which is one of the most significant parts of determining the success or failure of any diet program, particularly over the long term.

Silver Slimming Patches are convenient, you don’t have to remember to take a supplement before or after eating and there are no undesirable side effects. The constant dosage of the Fucus Vesiculosus released from the patch over the course of 24 hours means that Silver Slimming Patches are always at work throughout the day and night.

This 100% organic weight loss patch is free from side effects, additives and synthetic chemicals. Meaning from your very 1st patch you can feel confident that your body is 100% safe.

Ingredients

The main ingredient is Fucus Vesiculosus, with guarana extract, ginseng root powder, goru cola, damiana leaves and caffeine

Testimonials

I have been using Silver Slimming patches for a month now and just can’t believe they work. I was really sceptical at first, I mean how can a patch reduce hunger? But they really do work, as soon as I had been wearing one for a few hours I noticed my usual mid morning snack craving wasn’t there! I have lost 4lbs in a month which I am really pleased with. – Claire

Summary

Nicotine patches have helped millions of people give up smoking, now people who are struggling to lose weight can have similar support in the form of a Silver Slimming Patch, worn daily this ingeious patch will suppress your appetite and help you to lose weight.

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Medicine’s Elusive Goal: A Safe Weight-Loss Drug

Americans spent an estimated $59 billion last year fighting fat — on weight-loss programs, special foods, low-calorie soft drinks, appetite suppressants, gym memberships, diet books, exercise videos, even stomach-clamping surgery.

Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times


Meg Evans jumped at the chance to take part in a trial for Qnexa. "At that point I had given up on everything else," she said.

But less than 1 percent of that sum, as estimated by the research firm Marketdata Enterprises, was spent on prescription drugs. Despite years of research effort — and haunted by diet drugs that proved dangerous, like fen-phen in the 1990s — the pharmaceutical industry has not made meaningful progress in combating obesity, one of the nation’s biggest and costliest health problems.

Now, though, three small California companies hope to succeed where many bigger players have failed. The companies — Arena Pharmaceuticals, Orexigen Therapeutics and Vivus — plan to apply in the coming months for regulatory approval of anti-obesity drugs that could reach the market in late 2010 or in 2011.

With about one-third of American adults gauged to be obese, and another third overweight, a successful drug could garner billions of dollars in sales, even as it potentially reduced the nation’s overall medical bill.

A recent study conducted partly by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that treating obesity and diseases caused by it cost as much as $147 billion in 2006, or 9 percent of all health care spending.

“This is the biggest field, bigger than statins potentially,” said Jack Lief, chief executive of Arena Pharmaceuticals, referring to cholesterol-lowering drugs like Lipitor, which by itself had $12.4 billion in global sales last year.

The companies say they have tried especially to avoid side effects that have tripped up diet drugs in the past. And the products from Orexigen and Vivus are combinations of two drugs, which some experts say might be more effective than a single medicine.

Patients in clinical trials of the three drugs lost an average of 3 to 10 percent of their weight after a year in addition to what was accomplished by efforts to improve diet and exercise.

Vivus’s drug, Qnexa, provided the greatest weight loss, which is why that company’s stock is up 90 percent this year, more than that of the other two companies. But Qnexa’s ingredients may raise the biggest safety questions, although the clinical trials did not detect major problems.

Some experts say the weight loss provided by the drugs is modest, and in some cases is no better than that of existing drugs. Still, if the new drugs prove safer they could nonetheless help millions of people.

“I really believe that for the first time we’re going to have some real options,” said Dr. Ken Fujioka, director of the weight management center at Scripps Clinic in San Diego and a consultant to various pharmaceutical companies.

But the potential and the pitfalls are illustrated by the history of fen-phen, a combination of diet pills.

When word spread that the combination was effective, prescriptions soared to 20 million in 1996, up from three million in 1994, according to Cory Kasimov, an analyst at JPMorgan. But the next year, two of the drugs used in the combination were withdrawn from the market because they caused damage to heart valves, leaving the drug maker Wyeth with about $21 billion in liability.

Safety is a big concern for obesity treatments because the drugs might be taken for many years, and by many people who might be otherwise healthy but for their weight. What is more, people who are not even obese might also want the drugs, a vanity issue that rarely comes into play for treatments aimed at, say, diabetes or hypertension.

“I think what the F.D.A. is going to be paranoid about is a non-obese person who wants to drop 5 or 10 pounds in front of a wedding or a reunion,” Mr. Kasimov said.

The new drug candidates work through the central nervous system to influence appetite, and the F.D.A. has said it is particularly concerned about possible psychological side effects of such drugs.

For example, rimonabant, a Sanofi-Aventis drug once viewed a surefire blockbuster, failed to win F.D.A. approval in 2007 because of links to depression and suicidal thoughts. The drug, also known as Acomplia, was then taken off the market in Europe. And Merck and Pfizer abandoned their efforts to develop drugs with a similar mode of action.

Even drugs that have made it to market have not done well. IMS Health, which tracks prescriptions, estimates combined sales of obesity drugs last year at only $173 million in the United States. According to IMS, about 75 percent of the 6.8 million diet prescriptions last year were for phentermine, a 50-year-old generic stimulant that was an element in the fen-phen combination but was not taken off the market.

Experts say the two name-brand diet drugs now on the market have suffered from limited effectiveness — a weight loss of about 5 percent, typically — and potentially significant side effects. Meridia, sold by Abbott Laboratories, can increase blood pressure and heart rate, while Xenical, from Roche, can cause flatulence and embarrassing loss of bowel control. A lower-dose version of Xenical, called Alli, is available without a prescription from GlaxoSmithKline.

The pharmaceutical industry’s learned wariness of obesity drugs is a potential problem for the three small California companies, all of which are hunting for a big pharmaceutical company to help market their products.

Developing an effective weight-loss drug is also difficult because the body is almost hard-wired to maintain its weight, experts say. As many dieters know, as weight goes down, appetite can go up.

“You push a lever down in one spot and something else seems to come up in another spot,” said David B. Allison, director of the clinical nutrition research center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “It’s hard to suppress the system dramatically for long periods of time.”

Indeed, most of the data on the three new drugs comes from one-year clinical trials. It is less clear how long that weight loss will continue.

Selling the drugs could be a problem, as well. Insurers often do not pay for obesity drugs, citing their questionable usefulness. And many doctors do not prescribe drugs for obesity out of concern about safety or a belief that diet and exercise are the best solutions.

But other doctors, and many patients, say that diet and exercise are often not enough. Meg Evans of Spring Valley, Calif., said she jumped at the chance to take part in a clinical trial of Vivus’s drug, Qnexa. Her knees hurt so much from the excess weight that she no longer dived for balls when playing goalie on her soccer team.

“At that point I had given up on everything else,” said Ms. Evans, 60, who had tried fen-phen, as well as an over-the-counter appetite suppressant and the Jenny Craig weight-loss program.

Ms. Evans does not know whether she received Qnexa or a placebo. But she lost 55 pounds in a year, dropping from 230 pounds to 175 pounds on her 5-foot, 9-inch frame. Now, she says, in soccer games she dives “like a 10-year-old.”

To persuade doctors and insurers to use their drugs, the companies plan to emphasize that their products are not for cosmetic purposes.

Rather, they mean to stress the medical benefits of controlling a root cause of diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and other conditions.

“There is no more cost-effective story in the pharmaceutical industry than obesity,” said Leland F. Wilson, the chief executive of Vivus, which is based in Mountain View, Calif. Orexigen and Arena are based in San Diego.

In Vivus’s clinical trials, those who received a high dose of Qnexa had statistically significant improvements in cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar, compared with those given a placebo.

“I was able to take some of my patients off several of their medications, especially their high blood pressure medicines,” said Dr. Michelle Look, a family practice physician in San Diego who was an investigator on the trial and is an adviser to Vivus.

Still, measures like cholesterol and blood pressure are only risk factors. No study has yet shown that weight-loss drugs actually prolong lives or reduce the incidence of heart attacks or strokes.

While the three drugs are closest to market, about three dozen other drugs are in development. Some experts say they have been impressed by the weight loss achieved in midstage trials by a combination of two hormones being developed by Amylin Pharmaceuticals, another California biotechnology company.

“We have so few treatments available to help individuals manage their weight,” said Dr. Robert F. Kushner, clinical director of the obesity center at Northwestern University, “that anything added to the toolbox is going to be helpful.” Read More!

Proactol - Just Began Yesterday and Lost 2lbs - INDEPENDENT REVIEW!!


Hi all,
i just found this website after looking through all the hundreds of so-called success stories that are directly linked to the proactol website !!
MY REVIEW IS HONEST AND INDEPENDENT OF PROACTOL - IT WON'T BE ANYWHERE ELSE OR ON YOUTUBE!! I WILL UPDATE IT AS OFTEN AS I CAN TO LET YOU KNOW IF IT DOES WORK.  I AM SCEPTICAL AND ONLY BOUGHT ONE MONTH'S SUPPLY, EVEN THOUGH IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE TO DO THIS.
My order came within 2 days from purchase.
A little info about me: 41 female, married and have two kids and a housewife - 5' 6" and a bit of an easter egg shape - even after having a tummy tuck!!
I lost some weight last year for my hols and have put a lot of it back on and as i am going away again soon, i thought i would try proactol. the company is only down the road from me too!
i am not a big eater in the day, but pick all night. i normally have two slices of toast throughout the day, a big dinner and then anything i can lay my hands on, even at 11 at night, you could find me eating a sandwich. i have absolutely no willpower.
Anyway, my order came yesterday morning and i had my two slices of toast (only one had butter) and took 3 pills straight after. it gave me slight stomach cramps....but nothing else.
I then had an apple before my dinner and then a big dinner of a mountain of mashed potato (with butter and milk) which i love, 3 full fat sausages, veg and fresh onion gravy. i took 4 pills after this and did NOT get cramps.
Now normally, after dinner, it's a food fest, but i only had a packet of crisps - this was not cos i was being careful from now on - it just didn't cross my mind to go and search for food - psychological or the pills - no idea yet......!
I did weight myself this morning and i had lost 2 lbs! 
Now even if the proactol did not 'bind' the fat  i eat, it certainly stopped me from eating last night. I am a bit sad and am on and off the scales every morning without fail.
It did not make me go to the loo yesterday but it did this morning, and everything was 'normal' if you know what i mean!! as opposed to 'xenical' and 'alli'!!
So, even if you are still unsure, keep a check on this and i will let you know how i am doing!

Weight Loss this morning - 1lb (total 3lbs in 2 days)
Breakfast/Lunch 1 slice toast with no butter and ton of pineapple jam (no tablets taken)
Dinner - Huge Mountain of mashed potatoes with butter, milk and cheese. Minced Bee and Veg (4 tablets taken)
One huge pice of chocolate flapjack about 10 mins later (2 tablets taken)
Again, I would normally pick all night but i never thought about food or what i could eat next (which is normal for me!) all night. and that was all i had all day!
So even if the fat binding does not work, the appetite suppressant bit of it certainly is!

TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS SINCE BEGINNING THURSDAY (NOW SUNDAY am) 5LB
Saturday evening is my usual worst day ever - i do my weekly shop on this day - this is what i would usually eat:
Fruit, 2 big chocolate cookies from asda, crisps, cashew news (whole large bag, cos i can never save any until later!), dinner (usually something biggish or pasta-based), chocolate muffin (large variety!) and probablymore crips - a whole day of #%@&! high fat, high calorie food....
This is what i eat yesterday:
Fruit, 2 large cookies with cup of tea (2 tablets taken)
Two large cobs with butter, prawns, mayo (full fat), lettuce, tomatoes. (4 tablets taken)
That is it! no thought about food at all, well a little to be completely honest but even so, none eaten!
I did buy some low fat crisps and low fat dip just in case, but they are still in the cupboard!
I just need to buy some multi vits cos there is no way i am getting enough vitamins and minerals at the moment! but i certainly feel very motivated now!

Just a quickie to let you know total weight loss so far! Started on proactol thursday 30th september and it is now monday morning 5th october
TOTAL WEIGHT LOSS 8lb!! HOW GOOD IS THAT!
I have to say that there is certainly some willpower needed but i have not felt deprived - i have still had the odd cake and packet of crisps plus my fave (flapjack).
The appetite suppressent part of it does work but i think if you are going to pick at food, you are still going to be a picker! i have certainly stopped stuffing my face at night, which is great for me.
Even if i have a couple of pieces of flapjack, i will still take a couple of tablets to help it along.
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A Guide to Common Herbs

Herbs are nutritional foundation nutrients and good alternative medicine to nourish the body's deepest and most basic elements. Medicinal herbs have been used safely and effectively since the time of recorded history for an endless list of reasons from health, healing, weight loss/gain/maintenance, to survival and more. Herbs can offer the body nutrients it does not always receive, either from a poor diet, or environmental deficiencies in the soil and air. They are great body balancers that help regulate body functions.

The benefits of herbs are many and varied. Even the once skeptical traditional medical community is starting to embrace alternative medicine practices using herbal remedies and healing philosophies and practices incorporating herbal medicine and medicinal herbs. Chinese herbs have been used by the Chinese for over 4,000 years to promote health and as healing agents.

Chinese Herbs are taken as tonics to enhance physical and mental well being. Since the dawn of man, herbs have been used for healing purposes and to promote wellness. Today, herbs are still the alternative medicine and primary source of health care for 80% of the world.

Here are some of the more well-known herbs and plant products and their modern uses.

Herbs Modern Uses
  • Bilberry Fruit Extract, Vaccinium myrtillus Various microcirculatory conditions. Night blindness and poor ability to adapt to bright light.
  • Cascara Sagrada Aged Bark, Rhamnus purshiana Constipation.
  • Cayenne Pepper Fruit, Capsicum annuum Carminative, diaphoretic, counter-irritant.
  • Cranberry Fruit, Vaccinium macrocarpon Prevention of urinary tract infections.
  • Dong Quai Root, Angelica sinensis Various menstrual disorders.
  • Echinacea Herb, Echinacea purpurea As supportive therapy for colds and chronic infections of the respiratory tract.
  • Evening Primrose Oil, Oenothera biennis Conditions related to deficiency of essential fatty acids (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome) and alcoholism.
  • Feverfew Leaf, Tanacetum parthenium Treatment of migraines, fever, menstrual disorders.
  • Garlic Cloves, Allium sativum Elevated levels of cholesterol in blood and as a preventative measure for age dependent vascular changes.
  • Ginger Root, Zingiber officinale Modern Use: Prevention of the nausea and vomiting of motion sickness, dyspepsia, stomachic.
  • Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract, Ginkgo biloba Memory deficits, dementia syndromes. Improvement of distance and pain-free walking in peripheral arterial occlusive disease. Vertigo and tinnitus.
  • Asian Ginseng Root, Panax ginseng Tonic for invigoration and fortification in times of fatigue and debility, physical or mental exhaustion, stress, inadequate resistance to infections.
  • Siberian Ginseng Root, Eleutherococcus senticosus Tonic for invigoration and fortification in times of fatigue and debility, also during convalescence.
  • Goldenseal Root, Hydrastis canadensis Catarrhal conditions of the upper respiratory tract associated with colds and flus. Mucosal inflammations.
  • Gotu Kola Herb, Centella asiatica Improved memory. Venous insufficiency.
  • Grape Seed Extract, Vitis vinifera Microcirculatory maldistribution of blood flow. Altered capillary fragility and permeability. Anti-inflammatory.
  • Green Tea Leaf Extract, Camellia sinensis Chemopreventative. Hypercholesterolemia.
  • Kava Kava Root Extract, Piper methysticum Conditions of nervous anxiety, stress, and restlessness. Sedative and sleep enhancement.
  • Licorice Root, Glycyrrhiza glabra For catarrhal conditions of the upper respiratory tract and gastric/duodenal ulcers. Bronchitis. Adrenocorticoid insufficiency.
  • Milk Thistle Seed Extract, Silybum marianum Toxic liver damage, and for supportive treatment in chronic inflammatory liver disease and hepatic cirrhosis.
  • Saw Palmetto Berry Extract, Serenoa repens Urination problems in benign prostate hyperplasia stages 1 and 2.
  • St. John's Wort Herb Extract, Hypericum perforatum Mild to moderate depressive states.
  • Valerian Root, Valeriana officinalis Restlessness, sleeping disorders based on nervous conditions.
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Weight Loss Should Improve OSA in Obese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes


Weight loss should result in significant and clinically relevant improvements in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) among obese patients with type 2 diabetes, according to the results of a multicenter randomized study published in the September 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
 
"The belief that weight loss improves...OSA has limited empirical support," write Gary D. Foster, PhD, from the Center for Obesity Research and Education, Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and colleagues from the Sleep AHEAD Research Group of the Look AHEAD Research Group. "The purpose of this 4-center study was to assess the effects of weight loss on OSA over a 1-year period."

The study sample consisted of 264 participants with type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned to either an intensive lifestyle intervention (behavioral weight loss program developed specifically for obese patients with type 2 diabetes) or to a diabetes support and education group (3 group sessions discussing effective diabetes management). Mean age was 61.2 ± 6.5 years, mean weight was 102.4 ± 18.3 kg, mean body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) was 36.7 ± 5.7 kg/m2, and mean apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was 23.2 ± 16.5 events per hour.

Compared with participants in the support and education group, participants in the intensive lifestyle group lost more weight at 1 year (10.8 kg vs 0.6 kg; P < .001) and had a relative adjusted decrease in AHI of 9.7 ± 2.0 events per hour (P < .001). Total remission of OSA at 1 year occurred in more than 3 times as many participants in the intensive lifestyle group vs the support and education group, and the prevalence of severe OSA in the intensive lifestyle group was half that in the support and education group. The factors most predictive of changes in AHI at 1 year were initial AHI and weight loss (P < .01), with the greatest reductions in AHI occurring in participants with weight loss of at least 10 kg.

"Physicians and their patients can expect that weight loss will result in significant and clinically relevant improvements in OSA among obese patients with type 2 diabetes," the study authors write. "The greatest benefit was observed in men, in participants with more severe OSA at baseline, and in participants who lost the most weight."

Limitations of this study include lack of generalizability to younger patients, to patients without type 2 diabetes, or to patients with milder degrees of OSA. In addition, future research should address the mechanical, metabolic, and hormonal mechanisms underlying these improvements in OSA.

"The significant increase in AHI over 1 year in participants who were weight stable suggests that OSA is a rapidly progressing syndrome that will worsen without treatment in middle-aged obese adults with type 2 diabetes," the study authors conclude.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute supported Sleep AHEAD. The NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases supported Look AHEAD. One of the study authors (Dr. Sanders) has disclosed various financial relationships with Philips-Respironics, Cephalon, and Sanofi-Aventis. Read More!

Dose adios max diet pill really work?

A: I'm 5,5 and weigh around 11st 4lbs on a bad day, recently lost over two and half stone without diet pills but now my weight loss has stoped for some reason. my bmi is 26 and should be 23 and should weigh anything between 8st and 10st 10lbs. i really need to kick start my metabolism and weight loss again, would like to be around 9st and maintain this. dose anyone no if adios max really works if so how much is expected to lose and any chance weight will come back on when stop using it? would really appreciate honest and kind answer's please. thank you.
- Samantha

Q: I tried them and they didn't work for me. However Adios slimming pills are not dangerous. They are herbal and as long as you follow the directions for use they are safe.
Try to do more exercise to kick your metabolism of again or join a weight loss club, having someone else weighing you gives you motivation to keep goin and healthy meal ideas.
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