Week of February 18, 2007 to February 24, 2007

Bariatric Surgery is derived from the Greek words “weight” and “treatment”. Bariatric Surgeries are major gastrointestinal operations that seal off most of the stomach to reduce the amount of food one can eat and they rearrange the small intestine to reduce the calories the bodies can absorb. Weight loss operations fall into three categories. The first category is the Restrictive procedures make the stomach smaller to limit the amount of food intake. The second category is the Malabsorptive techniques reduce the amount of intestine that comes in contact with food so that the body absorbs fewer calories and the third category is a combination of the operations that employ both restriction and malabsorption.

Chagas Disease is an infection caused by the parasite Trypanosoma Cruzi. It is a member of the same genus as the infectious agent of the African Sleeping sickness, but the clinical manifestations, geographical distribution, life cycle and insect vector are very different. Chagas Disease was named after a Brazilian physician and infectologist Carlos Chagas, who first described the disease in 1909. Chagas Disease was not seen as a major public health problem in humans until the 1960’s. It is reported that 16 to 18 people are infected with Chagas Disease worldwide and that 50,000 people will die from this disease each year. Chagas Disease is also known by the name American Trypanosomiasis (tri-PAN-o-so-MY-a-sis).

Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that affects humans and animals. It is caused by the bacteria of the genus Leptospira. Leptospirosis is often referred to as Swineherd’s disease, swamp fever, cane-cutter fever, mud fever, canicola fever, hemorrhagic jaundice, icterohemorrhagic fever, rice-field fever, Stuttgart disease and Weil’s disease. Outbreaks are usually caused by exposure to water that is contaminated with the urine of an infected animal. The organism enters the body when the mucous membranes or abraded skin comes in contact with the contaminated environmental source. The infection causes a systemic illness that often leads to renal and hepatic dysfunction.

The word Pyometra derived from the Latin “pyo” meaning pus and “metra” meaning uterus. The Pyometra is an abscessed, pus-filled infected uterus. The condition is very serious and immediate surgery is almost always needed. The surgery is very extensive. Pyometra causes toxins and bacteria to leak across the uterine walls into the bloodstream. This causes life threatening toxic effects. If no treatment is received, death is inevitable.

The classic patient is an older female dog. Although less common, Pyometra can also occur in female cats, rabbits, ferrets and guinea pigs. Pyometra can begin three to five weeks after the animal goes through a heat cycle. There are many clinical signs of Pyometra such as pus draining from the vagina/vulva, increased thirst and increased urination, enlargement of the abdomen as the uterus fills with pus, lethargy, poor appetite, weight loss, fever and dehydration.

Life is full of headaches, literally. Most headaches are caused by a stressful day at work or because the kids have refused to listen to anything you have had to say. There are many different kinds of headaches and while most headaches are a harmless nuisance there may be a serious underlying cause, therefore all headaches should be taken seriously. Tension headaches and migraines are the most common type of headache, however there are ten other types of headache that are often deemed unusual.

PRIMARY COUGH HEADACHE

A primary cough headache is a head pain brought on by coughing or other valsalva maneuvers. They are not brought on by prolonged physical exercise in an absence of any intracranial disorders. A primary cough headache is considered a rare condition. It accounts for 0.4% of all headaches. It is a sudden-onset headache and it lasts from one to thirty seconds. It tends to be bilateral and posterior. This headache happens only after fifty years of age and is more frequent in men.

A funny sounding bodybuilding supplement has recently been introduced by Muscletech. Gakic, also known as glycine-l-arginine-alpha-ketoisocaproic acid has been in development for about 8 years by Muscletech.

What Does Gakic Do?

GAKIC is a pre-workout supplement that is designed to help your body remove toxins that are released when you fatigue your muscles. Research has shown that two of these toxins, ammonia and lactic acid, can be reduced by taking Gakic prior to working out. The theory is that when you reduce these fatigue toxins, you will allow yourself to lift more weight and for longer periods before you actually fatigue the muscle. Clearly, if you can lift more weight, your muscles will grow bigger, faster.

One of the most impressive muscle groups for a bodybuilder has to be the pectorals. There is nothing quite as intimidating and imposing as that armor plated look that a seasoned bodybuilder has who has trained his chest muscles correctly. From the upper pecs that almost look like armor plating, down to the lower sweep of the muscle where it attaches to the lower shoulder, a complete chest will definitely turn heads when you take off your shirt.

So how to get that look? Well, first remember that as in all aspects of bodybuilding, nothing happens overnight! You have to train with intensity, regularly and intelligently. Proper rest and diet are probably as important if not more important than your actual training so do not neglect those!

To most outsiders, the world of bodybuilding must seem freakish. Images of huge, deeply muscled physiques strutting and posing in the tiniest of speedo type posing trunks leaves most people looking on with their mouths hanging open.The problem is that the professional bodybuilders that everyone associates with the sport are not the majority. They are the elite of the elite. Here are the Top 10 Bodybuilding Myths Exposed:

1. If I Start Lifting Weights I’ll Look Like A Bodybuilder

Let’s put this one to rest right off the top. In all my years of training people, the first thing I hear from clients, especially women, is that they do not want to get “huge” and musclebound. My answer is always the same, “Trust me, you will never, ever look like that. Even if you wanted to, you wouldn’t”. Here’s a reality check: The professional bodybuilders that we see are the elite of the elite. They live and breath bodybuilding. They spend hour upon hour in the gym lifting poundages that would astound most people. They eat huge amounts of food that would gag most people. They have incredible genetics that allow for perfect musculature. And most importantly, they all use huge amounts of anabolic steroids, growth hormone, insulin and other drugs to get where they are at. The bottom line is that 99% of anyone who starts lifting would come nowhere near that type of body.

Have you ever thought about this? Your arms are probably the most widely seen muscle group on your body. Think about it for a minute. From the time you were a kid, if somebody said to you, “Show me your muscles”, what did you do? Boom…bicep pose. Try it on any 10 year old or for that matter, any 30 year old!

Massive arms are very impressive and actually quite intimidating to non lifters. Anytime you see a huge set of arms busting through a tight fitted shirt, it’s impressive.

As with most muscle groups, some people have an easier time building up one part of their body over another. For me, my arms, especially my triceps have always been fairly easy to build. I’ve found in over 25 years of lifting that one of the biggest mistakes people can make with many body parts and especially their arms is that they overtrain. Have you heard me talk about this before? It is something I keep harping on because it is true! As I mentioned in one of my previous articles, Why Can’t I Get Bigger?, over training is the number one reason most guys do not succeed in the gym.

To lose weight sensibly, you must first have an understanding of your Basic Metabolic Rate (BMR). To figure your BMR, take your weight and divide by 2.2. This will give you your weight in kilograms. Take this figure and multiply it by .9 (1.0 for men). Then, take this figure and multiply it by 24. This would be your BMR. So, if your weight is 200lb, divided by 2.2 your weight in kg is 90.91. Multiplied by .9 is 81.82. Multiplied by 24 is 1963.68. This figure (1963.68) would be the calories you would burn if you did nothing but lay in bed all day. Obviously you do more than that. A person who is moderately sedentary (at a desk all day with little or no exercise) can assume they’ll burn another 500 calories or so. Therefore, you would need to consume about 2463.68 calories per day just to maintain your weight.

Most people assume that to lose weight they need to go on a “starvation” diet. Nothing could be further from the truth and is the worst thing you could do. By “starving” yourself you always force your body to slow it’s metabolism down further. You know you are dieting but your body thinks it is being starved and will do whatever is needed to survive and what it needs to survive is to slow down the metabolism to conserve fat! You will lose weight but as soon as you start eating normally (and you eventually will) your body says, “OH! Now I’m getting more calories! I better store them as fat in case I get starved again!” At this point, your body will regain the weight that was lost and then add even more weight to protect itself from any future reduction in calories.

This is physiological fact. People do not want to believe this but it is a basic tenet of nutrition. Ask yourself this question: “Why am I still trying to lose weight over and over?”

The solution is not dieting. The solution is a lifestyle change. You must accept the fact that starvation diets are not a long term solution. Instead, simply deduct 500 calories from your maintenance intake. Try to stick to this program and make it a way of life rather than a quick fix. If you were the 200lb example as stated above, you need to eat approximately 1900 calories/day to lose weight sensibly.

Remember though that everyone is different and this figure is not etched in stone. You might find that you need to cut a bit more or less. It is something that needs to be adjusted to your body. The only “for sure” is that if you go on a starvation diet (1000-1500 calories/day) you will only set yourself up to fail in the long term.

Many high traffic entertainment and humour websites use funny videos that are viewed for free by site visitors. In fact, many of these viral video clips that are sent around the world via e-mail originated from these websites.
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Viral marketing is one of the most effective marketing forms today and one of the cheapest as well. While a lot of people spent huge money for advertising their online business, with no guarantees, the smart marketers are using the power of viral marketing to drive huge traffic to their sites.

So why is viral marketing important, and how can you utilize it to it’s full potential?

Viral marketing is best achieved when you initially create something of value that will subsequently spread around the internet like a virus and no further action is required from yourself. This makes viral marketing extremely powerful because it is often very cheap to implement, if done correctly, and the results can be almost instantaneous.

Si acabas de comprar una computadora nueva con el sistema operativo Windows Vista pre instalado uno de los primero pasos que tendras que hacer es mover todos tus archivos de datos de una computadora a otra. Esto puede ser un tanto tedioso y mas si no tienes tus datos ordenados por que tendras que buscar en todos los directorios.

Bueno esto apenas comienza ya que mover los datos es la parte facil, pero que me dices de la configuracion?. Si eres de esas personas que les gusta meterse con la configuracion del sistema y dejarlo justo “al dente”, entonces estas metido en un serio problema, y esto no solo se debe a que son muy distintos el Windows XP al Vista, si no que este ultimo es un poco mas “quisquilloso” por llamarlo de alguna manera, por aquello de la seguridad.

Mastermovies, wie kent ze niet? Het gaat nergens over, maar daardoor zijn de filmpjes niet minder grappig. Het bekendst zijn de voice-overs van onder andere The Matrix, Titanic en Night Rider, maar ook de serie ondergronds die ontstaan is door Gamekings is super hilarisch. Memorabel is de voice-over van een Dr. Phill show en wat dacht je van “Ich bin macho”? Verder maken ze in samenwerking met de Power Unlimited Baklap TV, die gaat over games en gamen maar niet helemaal. Het gaat weliswaar over gamen, maar er worden geen games besproken. De games zijn enkel een decor voor flauwe grappen en hilarische ingezonden brieven, die worden behandeld door Dr. Ted!

I few weeks ago, I found this extremely useful website: http://multiki.arjlover.net/. The thing is, I was looking for some old Russian films that weren’t out on DVD. After a few minutes I found this website. It contains over 1700 GB of free Russian films, that is old classics. You won’t find any new movies. But it’s not only movies, there are also many many cartoons, often very famous ones. At the end, I was very content. The only problem is: if you do not have a Russian IP, you can’t download the whole day. International visitors can only download from 4.00 AM till 10.00 AM (GMT+3). No registration required, no torrents involved, it’s direct download only (right click, save as).

Sergio Leone is the man! If you haven’t heard of the director, shame on you! You probably know the following movies: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, “ Once Upon a Time in the West” and “Once Upon a Time in America”. Well, Leone is the director of these movies. I’m not sure what the first western I saw was, but it was probably The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I was completely blown away by that movie. The film is extremely attractive and the long shots are memorable. For example: the opening scene in which a dog is crossing a road, lasts 16 seconds! Leone is also well known for his extreme close-up shots.

Does the end justify the means? I was thinking of this while wondering what I could do to make a change in this world. Machiavelli was pretty sure about it, but I can’t figure if I agree or disagree. What does this big community think?

Like, is it ok to become a big, powerful Pope-tator if you’re going to make good changes in this world? If you do something really good for people, is it ok if it was illegal?

I want to know how you deal with problems you can’t solve right away? Do you let it rest or do you try and try until you solve it? Or do you just don’t care?

I don’t know if it’s an obssession, a bad habit or perseverance… but when I find a problem, I won’t let it rest (nor will I rest) until I solve it. It’s like, I try to leave it there, but not a minute after I’m back to looking for a solution. I won’t even sleep at night if it’s still bothering me…

But, what about you?

I’m just sick of school. It’s just the 2nd day back from mid-year vacations and I already hate it. I’ve spent about 5 hours sitting at my desk, doing homework after homework… And just when I thought I was done, a Chemistry workshop appears! It’s just too frustrating, I’ve tried to do it, and it’s impossible! The thing is like done by the devil himself.

I don’t know how teachers really expect us to learn if they just keep filling us with material, class after class, assigning homework after homework, not even stopping to check if everyone has got the class. I just really hope there comes the day when this obsolete system is changed, I’m sick of it. I, fortunately, manage to get by with good grades and hardly survive to this massacre, but my friends are really having a hard time. I don’t know if I had mentioned it before, but I’m a student of the Science specialty. I love science, Biology, Chemistry, Math… they’re awesome and quite amazing. But teachers just make you hate them with your whole heart.