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Lisa Nelson

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Stress, Cortisol, and Your Heart

Do you struggle with extra fat around your midsection?  Excess abdominal fat is not only visually unappealing to some, but it increases your heart disease risk.   What causes abdominal obesity?   There are many different reasons your body likes to store fat in the abdomen.  I want to discuss one possibility -... Read moreChevron
posted 10/19/2008, comments (0)|
Dr. Larry Weinrauch

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Rimonabant: Miracle Drug for Obesity?

A recent article and editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association (April 2, 2008) follows many recent studies on the drug rimonabant, available in many countries in Europe but not the US. This drug acts more or less as an anti-marijuana drug. Marijuana causes a state that in part is of euphoria, relaxation, a stimulation of the... Read moreChevron

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