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Liposuction Recovery

Most patients undergoing liposuction are fully recovered and can resume normal daily activities within two weeks. In cases where only a small area of the body requires treatment, patients may be fit to carry on as normal after a few days.

17 Feb 2010

Liposomes and Cancer

The treatment of cancer is a great challenge to medical professionals as the search for a medical treatment that can distinguish between healthy rapidly dividing cells and abnormal cancerous cells is difficult.

17 Feb 2010

Leptin Mechanism

Leptin is a small protein hormone involved in the control of energy intake, appetite, and metabolism. As a key regulator of food intake and body weight, it is one of the most important cytokines secreted by the adipose tissue.

17 Feb 2010

Leptin Resistance and Obesity

Leptin plays an important role in regulating appetite and body weight. Leptin binds to a form of leptin receptor present in the cells of the hypothalamus. This stimulates an intracellular signalling pathway that leads to down-regulation of the expression of receptors involved in increasing appetite.

17 Feb 2010

What Does Leptin Do?

Leptin is a cell-signalling hormone vital in the regulation of appetite, food intake and body weight. Studies have shown that an absence of leptin in the body or leptin resistance can lead to uncontrolled feeding and weight gain.

17 Feb 2010

What is Leptin?

Leptin is a protein hormone involved in the regulation of energy intake and expenditure by the body. Leptin is an important cytokine that plays a key role in the regulation of appetite, food intake and metabolism.

17 Feb 2010

Ketogenic Diet Mechanism

The ketogenic diet is a specialized diet that involves highly restricted intake of carbohydrates and proteins and a high proportion of fat consumption. It has proven to be used in the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy because the mechanism of action of the diet causes changes in the levels of ketones and other substances in the body, reducing the frequency of seizures.

11 Feb 2010

Ketogenic Diet Types

The ketogenic diet is a therapeutic diet used in the management of some health conditions, such as drug-resistant epilepsy.

11 Feb 2010

Ketogenic Diet Side Effects

Although the adverse effects related to the ketogenic diet are generally less serve than those of anticonvulsant medications used to treat epilepsy, individuals following the diet may experience a number of undesirable effects.

11 Feb 2010

Ketogenic Diet Indications and Contra-Indications

The ketogenic diet is usually used as an alternative therapy for children with drug-resistant epilepsy.

11 Feb 2010

Ketogenic Diet Efficacy

The effect of starvation in controlling epileptic seizures was first observed by scientists in the 1920s. Since then, the ketogenic diet, which mimics the effects of fasting, has been devised as a way of controlling epilepsy in children who are not responsive to medication.

11 Feb 2010

History of the Ketogenic Diet

The ketogenic diet became popular as a therapy for epilepsy in the 1920s and 30s. It was developed to provide an alternative to non-mainstream fasting, which had demonstrated success as an epilepsy therapy.

11 Feb 2010

Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy

Epilepsy is one of the most common nervous system disorders and affects millions of people including children worldwide. Epilepsy is diagnosed in a person who experiences recurrent, unprovoked seizures or convulsions.

11 Feb 2010

What is the Ketogenic Diet?

The ketogenic diet is a special diet designed to help children with epilepsy that fails to respond adequately to routine anti-epileptic medications. A typical ketogenic diet is made up of the following...

11 Feb 2010

What is Kinesiology?

Kinesiology comes from the Greek words for the study of movement. This branch of study was started by Dr. George Goodheart, who was a chiropractor, but later absorbed the techniques of traditional Chinese medicine, including acupuncture, to set up a model of disease as a disturbance of energy flow in the body, rather than as a physical entity.

11 Feb 2010