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...does liposuction reduce the size of any remaining fat cells; large fat cells appear to produce more harmful proteins than do small ones. Some doctors believe the results would have been better if the patients had been only a few pounds overweight. In any case, the best way to shrink fat cells is still to create a negative energy balance by - you guessed it - eating fewer calories than you burn. Disappointing as this study might be, there is hope for folk who struggle with weight. It's becoming increasingly clear that even modest weight loss - even as little...
...reticence, or whatever, came from both our parents but from my mother most of all," Kerry's younger brother Cameron told me a few weeks ago. "She was vehement about civic duty and personal correctness. Once, when I started talking about winning a ski race, she said to me, 'Shrink it down'--meaning my head. That was one of her expressions. John was more of a rebellious adolescent than I was. He had some real knock-down, drag-outs with our father. But he never rebelled against what Mom taught...
...Cocklebiddy, and a lot of people turn to alcohol." As with the stranded motorists he regularly finds en route, "all we can do is talk to them, and at least give them a bit of comfort." For how much longer he doesn't know. "My days are starting to shrink," he admits. But not his faith. When seconded to the region as a teacher 35 years ago, he remembers thinking, "Where better than Esperance?" After all, the French word "derives from the verb esp?rer, to hope...
...does liposuction reduce the size of any remaining fat cells; large fat cells appear to produce more harmful proteins than do small ones. Some doctors believe the results would have been better if the patients had been only a few pounds overweight. In any case, the best way to shrink fat cells is still to create a negative energy balance by--you guessed it--eating fewer calories than you burn...
When it works, the new paradigm can achieve dramatic results. Most of the newly approved drugs work in only 10% to 30% of patients, but in those patients, tumors routinely shrink to less than half their size. The number of new drugs that have been approved is small, their cost is high (at least $20,000 per cycle), and progress is slow. The five-year survival rate for all cancers is 63%, up from 51% in 1975, according to the American Cancer Society. But most of that improvement is attributed to the effectiveness of antismoking campaigns, not to better drugs...