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Quantity of life expanding to fit population ‘growth’ 
NEW YORK - From the cradle to the grave and most points in between, obesity has found its niche in American marketing. Make that a wide berth.

From Flab to Fab: These Women Lost 422 Pounds 
They Lost Weight Without Surgery or Pills

Fired school bus driver speaks out 
SPRING HILL Shes never been fired from a job until now. Forty-year-old Patricia Dorvee didnt attend the Tuesday meeting held by school board members to fire her as a bus driver.

Health Happenings
Connellsville Daily Courier - — Childbirth and Beyond Weekender series, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Westmoreland Hospital. Sessions cover labor and birth, pain control options, Cesarean birth, postpartum care, the normal newborn and breathing/relaxation techniques

Chick-lit beach reading
Seattle Times - It’s springtime: A few more degrees Fahrenheit, and we’ll be hitting the beach. Not without a novel in hand, however. Here are some recent fledglings in the chick-lit genre (with their ratings in chicks), for your pre-beach consideration. {Three

EURweb GASTRIC BYPASS APPEALING TO BLACKS: Record Numbers are
EURweb - Gastric bypass surgeries have increased dramatically in recent years, jumping more than 500 percent worldwide jumping from 16,800 operations in 1993 to 140,640 in 2004, according to the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Between sixty and

From almost 500 pounds to Mad City Marathoner
Wisconsin State Journal - Five years ago Scot Ross was a pack-a-day smoker who weighed nearly 500 pounds. Now the Wisconsin secretary of state candidate is half his former size. And Sunday he finished the Mad City Marathon with his sights set - possibly - on next year’s

Gastric Sleeve Is An Alternative To Gastric Bypass For Weight Loss
KSDK - For some people fighting the war of the waistline, a new weight loss surgery may be the answer. Dr. Antonio Muina used to weigh 315 lbs. Muina said, “I was extremely overweight. I had tried to lose weight for many, many years.” Since September, Muina

Procedures Beat Meds To Help Patients Fight Obesity, GERD - New
Medical News Today - Upper gastrointestinal surgical procedures to treat conditions like gastroesophageal reflux disease and obesity are becoming popular options, but the medical community still debates the effectiveness and safety of the procedures. Research presented

Outsourcing Your Heart
Time - and found out that he was closer to a heart attack than he had imagined. Steinard had a double bypass last week in New Delhi, where he is recovering CUTTING-EDGE VACATIONS In the U.S. insurers negotiate discounts, but the uninsured pay retail

The art of the scam - removing red flags: Plymouth woman says she fell for sad story 
Michele Grimes wishes she had seen the scam earlier along the money trail. But when James Castelluzzo stood up at her church and said he had brain cancer and needed money, Grimes fell for the whole story.

Plastic surgery parties 
(WTNH, May 21, 2006) _ You may have heard of make-up or candle parties, but how about a plastic surgery party?

Stars offered free surgery at Cannes 
Botox, an eye lift, tummy tuck or liposuction - it is all free if you are famous enough at the Cannes International Film Festival. Big name actors are being offered plenty of free loot at the annual glitzy film fest.