Are you living an healthy lifestyle, doing plenty of exercise, eating fresh vegetables and fruits ? Never on coke, fries, snacks, pizza and burgers ? Then you are probably what we can call a healthy person : nice skin, looking young, fresh, sporty. No ? you’re not ?

Indeed, sometimes an healthy lifestyle is not enough in order to lose weight or just stay in good shape and avoid health issues. This is why dietary supplements can help you find your way to a brighter future, far away from the stress session when you put your feet on the balance.

In fact, if you’ve just some pounds to get rid of, diet/weight loss pills are the perfect, natural diet supplements you should consider.

More and more people turn to these diet pills when they want to look slimmer and sexier, especially before the summer.  They are the perfect supplements you should take with or before each meal if you want to avoid fat absorption or burn fat the quick and easy way. Another way to lose weight would be to carefully select appetite suppressant pills, hoodia based diet pills made of the purest P57 ingredient. Thanks to hoodia, this famous South African plant, thousands of people can control their appetite and avoid excess food consumption.

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Did you know?

* This year, more than 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
* Almost 10,000 women will develop cervical cancer.
* All women are at risk for breast and cervical cancer, even those who have no family history of the disease.
* Survival rates are high for women who detect breast and cervical cancers in the early stages, when the cancer is small and has not spread.



What can you do?

* Get regular mammograms, clinical breast exams performed by your doctor and Pap tests. *
* Do breast self-exams monthly, beginning at age 20.

Other things you can do to reduce your risk of cancer include eating a variety of healthy foods with an emphasis on plant sources, adopt a physically active lifestyle, maintain a healthy weight, stop smoking and limit your alcohol intake.

* Refer to your individual plan for benefit coverage and information about age and frequency for these screenings.

Other things you can do to reduce your risk of cancer include eating a variety of healthy foods with an emphasis on plant sources, adopt a physically active lifestyle, maintain a healthy weight, stop smoking and limit your alcohol intake.


Source: American Cancer Society
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THURSDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Compared to real acupuncture, placebo acupuncture was associated with significantly higher overall pregnancy rates among women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF), says a University of Hong Kong study.

In real acupuncture, fine needles are inserted into particular points on the body. In placebo acupuncture, blunt needles that look identical to real acupuncture needles retract into the handle of the needle when pressed on the skin, but still give the sensation and appearance of entering the skin.

The researchers gave real or placebo acupuncture to 370 women on the day of embryo transfer and found that 55.1 percent of those who received placebo acupuncture became pregnant, compared to 43.8 percent of those who received real acupuncture. The findings were published in the Nov. 13 issue of Human Reproduction.

"We found a significantly higher overall pregnancy rate following placebo acupuncture when compared with that of real acupuncture," study author Dr. Ernest Hung Yu Ng, an associate professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, said in a European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology news release. "In addition, there was a trend towards higher rates of clinical pregnancy, ongoing pregnancy, live birth and embryo implantation in the placebo acupuncture group, although the differences did not reach statistical significance."

The results suggest that placebo acupuncture may not act as an inert control for real acupuncture and may be having a real effect. That theory is supported by the fact that the researchers noted significant changes in measurements for uterus receptivity and patient stress levels after the women received both the real and placebo acupuncture.

There are two possible explanations for the study results.

"Placebo acupuncture is similar to acupressure and therefore is good enough to improve the pregnancy rate," said Ng, who added it's also possible that real acupuncture may, in some way, reduce the pregnancy rate.

"So far, there is no evidence that real acupuncture would adversely affect IVF outcomes because, in a previous meta-analysis of several acupuncture studies, the pregnancy rate was higher in the acupuncture group than in the control group. However, we cannot draw a firm conclusion about this from our current study, as we did not compare the two groups with a third control group of patients who received neither form of acupuncture. Further studies should be conducted to compare placebo or noninvasive acupuncture and controls without acupuncture," Ng said.

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