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Adjustable Gastric Banding
Adjustable gastric banding is a restrictive type of weight loss surgery. It involves placing a silicone band with an inflatable inner collar around the upper stomach to restrict food intake. This creates a small pouch and a narrow passage to the...
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Aqua-aerobics
Aqua Aerobics, knows as water aerobics, refers to the performance of aerobic exercises in shallow and deep water such as within a swimming pool. As a type of resistance training, the benefits from this form of exercise is vast, allowing the body...
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Curative Diet
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, had stated 'let food become your medicine and let medicine become your food.' For hippocrates the control of diet was a fundemental element in the treatment of many of those underlying conditions...
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Exercise Program
The Exercise Program includes:
- Interview and discussion about personal goals and needs
- Individualized exercise program to include:
Exercise program for the gym
Group fitness programs
Circuit training classes
- Body composition assessment...
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Gastric Bypass
Gastric bypass weight loss surgery is a mixed gastric bypass surgery, utilizing both a decrease in stomach size and a partial bypass of the small intestine to limit calorie intake. Gastric bypass is also commonly referred to as "roux-en-y" weight...
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Gastric Sleeve
The gastric sleeve is a stomach reduction procedure rapidly becoming a popular option for weight-loss surgery. The procedure usually laparoscopic, involves the removal of a little more that half of the stomach so that it takes the shape of a tube...
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Weight Loss
Obesity is one of the most prevalent causes of multiple diseases and conditions that afflict people in the United States today. Some people who are more than 100 pounds overweight may find it difficult to lose weight through traditional methods and look to weight-loss treatments and surgeries to provide the answer for long-term weight loss.
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