A Look At The United States Most Popular Cosmetic Surgeries

A Look At The United States Most Popular Cosmetic Surgeries
Cosmetic surgery can have a dramatic positive effect on a
woman's physical appearance. There is a direct link between
a woman's physical appearance and her emotional well-being.
Many women feel that the changes due to weight gain/loss,
pregnancy, breastfeeding, gravity and aging leaves them
feeling less than attractive and uncomfortable with their
bodies.

These things can often leave women to feel awkward and
embarrassed, causing them to shy away from not only public
situations but intimate as well. According to the American
Society of Plastic Surgeons, 90% of the people having
cosmetic surgery are women.

Breast Augmentation: Or breast enlargement, is enhancing
the breasts using an artificial implant using a silicone
rubber shell filled with either silicone-gel or inflated
with a saline solution and used to enlarge the breast. They
can be placed either directly behind the breast tissue, or
beneath the pectoralis muscle. Each placement has its
benefits and disadvantages, you will need the professional
recommendations of of our board-certified cosmetic surgeons
to find out which placement is right for you.

Breast implants come in three basic shapes: the
moderate-profile, the moderate-plus profile and the
high-profile implant.

There are 3 main incision locations for breast implants:
under the breast in the fold or crease (called the IMF or
the infra-mammary fold), the armpit (axillary), or the
nipple.

Breast Lift: A breast lift is a surgical procedure that is
designed to remove excess skin, breast and fatty tissue,
restore the firmness and shape of your breasts due to
pregnancy, breastfeeding, weight fluctuations or gravity
for more lifted and shapely breasts.

There are two main types of breast lift incisions:

Vertical (or Lolipop): this incision goes around the
areolar complex (the pigmented area of the breast), and
down the front of the breast to the fold.

Anchor (or classic lift): this incision goes around the
areolar complex (the pigmented area of the breast), down
the front of the breast and under the breast along the
crease.

Liposuction: Is a cosmetic surgery employed to remove
excess fat from specific body parts. Liposuction is not a
weight loss method but a method to fatty deposits
throughout the body. Generally the fat is removed from
thighs, chin, buttocks, love handles, abdomen, breasts and
stomach for women and chin, waist, breasts and buttocks for
men.

This surgical procedure is not an alternative to exercise
and dieting and should be used only to remove the stubborn
fat that does not respond to exercises and diet.

Tummy Tuck: A tummy tuck, or Abdominoplasty, can repair the
abdominal muscle, remove excess fat, stretched or loose
skin, and is especially beneficial after pregnancy or
weight loss. A tummy tuck is also an effective method of
removing some of the stretchmarks in the area beneath the
belly button, that may have developed.

Rhinoplasty: Is cosmetic surgery of the nose, and is
designed to change the shape, size and over all appearance
of the nose so that the patient feels more confident and
attractive with their appearance. Because the nose is on
the most visible part of the body, it is much harder to
hide than something else.

A rhinoplasty can deal with a variety of problems around
this feature of the face. It can be used to increase or
decrease the overall size of the nose, change the bridge or
tip, and expand or narrow the nostrils and in some cases
alleviate breathing problems.

This information is to help you have a basic understanding
of common cosmetic surgery procedures. Because each person
is unique, it is important to speak with a board-certified
cosmetic surgeon to get your questions answered that
pertain to your own situation.

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Hot Tub in Spain - Looking for

Hot Tub in Spain - Looking for
If you are looking for a Hot Tub in Spain and if you are
considering purchasing one for either your roof terrace or
perhaps your garden there is a very wide choice.

The original Hot Tubs made hundreds of years ago were
circular and made out of wood like very large beer barrels
and today some modern acrylic Hot Tubs are produced in that
shape also. These round Hot Tubs provide a great deep Tub
with plenty of Jets and a great Hydro massage effect.

However one can also get this from a modern cedar Hot Tub
one that is made from real natural Canadian Cedar. Circular
Hot tubs both Acrylic and Cedar are great for friends and
the family to get together and have a chat.

The combination of warm water with, massage Jets and
buoyancy helps to provide a pleasant sensation that not
only is able to bring some relief to muscles & joints but
is also able to relax the mind, body and spirit.

Modern Hot Tubs have an increased number of more powerful
jets strategically placed for maximum benefit; these Jets
offer supreme therapeutic support in a carefree setting.
This helps to increase blood flow and aid circulation,
reducing muscle strain and soreness, and helping to relieve
pressure and tension throughout your body. Calculated
buoyancy (and a corresponding feeling of weightlessness)
blends perfectly with swirling warm water to deliver a
relaxing soak with healing properties. In fact, you will
feel noticeably better in just 20 minutes.

Hydrotherapy & Hydro massage does help in many ways to
improve ones health. Not only do the warm, bubbling waters
help melt away tension and strain, but they also provide a
gentle and effective massage - targeting your joints and
muscles, promoting a better night's sleep and combating the
pain of arthritis and other muscle-related injuries.

Safe, enjoyable and effective for the whole family,
hydrotherapy and the health benefits of a Hot Tub will help
everyone enjoy an active lifestyle. Modern Hot Tubs
originate back in time just over half a century ago (1954)
when the Jacuzzi brothers invented a portable whirlpool
pump (simply as I understand it because one of their
relatives had arthritis) and from there on in the Hot Tub
Industry has not looked back.

From about that time the trend has been for plastic Hot
Tubs either made in glass fibre and more recently in
Acrylic which is molded by thermo-forming into the shapes
that we see today. Both these materials allow for a high
degree of molding and shape and they are very good for ease
of maintenance. They also do provide a very good and
pleasant hydro massage. However, these materials are not
from nature as Timber is and of course being man made they
lack any kind of scent or smell. The man made materials
just do not produce any form of natural aroma.

For hundreds of centuries before the advent of modern
technology and plastics, wood was the material used in
making hot tubs. There really was not any other alternative
choice of material available. However, certain types of
wood, similar to wooden boat construction automatically
lent themselves to the overall hot tub experience. The
woods that spring to mind are Oak and Cedar. Both these
woods expand when wet which forms a better waterproof seal
for the tub.

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The author supplies premium quality American Hot Tubs on
the Costa Del Sol In Spain and his web site is at
http://www.spas4you.com

5 fat loss myths that you must not ignore!

5 fat loss myths that you must not ignore!
I recently gave a presentation to about 70 females on the
subject of fat loss and the common methods we use to
attempt to rid ourselves of excess body fat. During my
research for the talk, I unearthed a large amount of
material that supports my belief that most of the world's
population are being misled in their quest for a slim, but
healthy body, that so many of us crave!

Does it feel like the whole idea of fat loss is only
possible for the genetically gifted...

Are you searching for the quick fix that will trim away
body fat overnight?

Or are you still waiting for our "trusted" pharmaceutical
companies to produce the ultimate weight loss pill that
will solve worldwide obesity problems...

Sharing some of the following facts and myths with you is
not going to be easy for you to stomach, I suspect that
you'll be shocked, dismayed or maybe you'll feel that none
of what I tell you is true.

In fact I am fairly sure you'll dispute much of what I
report, so I ask you to check my sources, read for yourself
the studies that I cite. You'll be as shocked as my
audience when you really do discover the truth about fat
loss!

Myth 1 - Skipping meals and snacks is OK if I want to lose
fat! Do you skip breakfast, the odd lunch, or maybe you
don't eat at all for a whole day, because you "don't feel
hungry"?

PLEASE DON'T!!

There is nothing worse for your metabolism than irregular
feedings.

Eating 6 meals a day compared to just 2 meals a day of the
SAME caloric value total for the day, will result in more
fat loss!

Check out study no.1 to discover why eating every few hours
is ESSENTIAL for fat loss!

Myth 2 - A calorie is a calorie

Unfortunately NOT.

Eating a diet of refined carbs and low fat will actually
make you fatter, than a diet of low carb, high fat of the
same caloric value!

If you think about it we have been told by the FDA in the
US to reduce the amount of Fat in our diet and replace it
with carbs like bread and pasta. The food pyramid clearly
showed this!

Sadly it is all those refined carbs that have been adding
to our waist line and not the fats.

Study no.2, proves that a diet high in fat actually
resulted in MORE fat loss!

Myth 3 - You must only train in the "fat burning zone" to
lose fat!

Probably the biggest myth in the world of health and
fitness today, and one that drew the most gasps and head
shaking in my audience!

The fat burning zone DOES exist BUT, it is NOT an effective
workout strategy for overall fat loss.

How can that be?

To be honest you don't need to read the studies to prove
this, you can see for yourself in the gym. How many people
do you see going to the gym week after week for months on
end, doing their fat-burning zone workouts, BUT never
actually changing shape?

The nail in the coffin of your fat burning zone workouts is
crystal clear study no.3 comparing a 'diet only' group to a
'diet and exercise' group. The exercise consisting of a 45
minute "fat burning zone" routine, 5 days a week for 12
weeks.

The abstract from this study states: Results indicate that
moderate aerobic exercise training during a 12-week period
has no discernible effects on body composition.

i.e. fat burning zone workouts do nothing for losing body
fat!!

WOW!

Myth 4 - Calorie counters on machines are useful for fat
loss...

We've all done it, waiting for the calorie counter on the
treadmill or cross trainer to tick by 400 or 500 calories
burnt during your workout. We can then feel all virtuous as
we tuck into our post workout coffee and chocolate muffin,
safe in the knowledge we have "earned" it.

Unfortunately, calories burned during your workouts are not
significant when you want to lose fat!

Study no.4 compared endurance style workouts to higher
intensity interval training where the number of total
calories burned during the workout, was over twice as much
for the endurance group than the intervals group.

You would think that the endurance group would logically
lose more fat given that they have burned more calories in
total? However the intervals group lost NINE times more fat
than the endurance group!

Those calorie counters on your exercise bike are really
worthless, my advice, cover them up!

Myth 5 - Crunches will get rid of your belly fat!

How many crunches do you do each day? 10, 20... maybe 50,
100... or maybe more?

Any self respecting fitness professional will tell you that
"spot reduction" doesn't work! If it did, all the people
doing 100 crunches a day would be walking around with a
perfect SIX PACK, but flabby butt and thighs! It just
doesn't work like that!

So quit wasting your time and effort on this ineffective
exercise and have a go at doing some of the more effective
methods instead...

THREE truly effective ways of getting rid of body fat

1. Drop the refined carbs from your diet. Eat more high
quality proteins and unrefined carbs in the form of fresh
fruit and vegetables. 2. Do some short, sharp and very
effective interval workouts. 3. Get your trainer to show
you some intensive ALL BODY resistance workouts, utilising
large muscle groups as much as possible!

Each of these methods will achieve the necessary result of
boosting your "basal metabolic rate", this is your 24/7 fat
burning system in your body.

Utilise all 3 methods and fat will literally melt away!

12 weeks is a relatively short time period in your
lifetime, and this is all it took for Claire to drop over
5% in body fat, and drop 2 dress sizes utilising the same
three methods of fat loss. With renewed confidence in her
body and her structural health too, she is now embarking on
a new sporting passion of rock climbing....

So what would you do with your new body?

Whilst you may not want to believe that these 5 myths
really ARE myths, I urge you to follow up on the studies I
cite and see for yourself!

Better still, would be to get down to your gym, adjust your
nutritional habits, and try out the EFFECTIVE methods for
yourself.

Tim

Study 1. Iwao, S., Mori, K., Sato, Y. Effects of meal
frequency on body composition during weight control in
boxers. Scan J Med Sci Sports 6:265-272, 1996 Study 2.
Effects of a low-fat versus a low-carbohydrate diet on
adipocytokines in obese adults. de Luis DA, Aller R, Izaola
O, Gonzalez Sagrado M, Bellioo D, Conde R. Study 3.
Influence of diet and/or exercise on body composition and
cardiorespiratory fitness in obese women. Utter AC, Nieman
DC, Shannonhouse EM, Butterworth DE, Nieman CN. Study 4.
Impact of exercise intensity on body fatness and skeletal
muscle metabolism. Tremblay A, Simoneau JA, Bouchard C.

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Tim Goodwin is a fitness professional specializing in help
the busiest people achieve more with their amateur sporting
interests, and at the same time ridding them of excess body
fat. Visit http://www.getfit.lu/success.html to get a free
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Coenzyme Q10: The Anti-Oxidant In Every Cell

Coenzyme Q10: The Anti-Oxidant In Every Cell
In human beings, coenzyme Q10 is the most common occurring
form of coenzyme Q, needed by and found in every cell in
the body. Perhaps its primary function is to ensure the
production of adequate energy within the cell mitochondria,
but coenzyme Q10 is also a powerful anti-oxidant, and is
particularly important because it is the only fat-soluble
anti-oxidant which can be manufactured within the body.
Like other fat-soluble anti-oxidants, such as vitamin E,
coenxyme Q10 is vital for the protection of fatty
structures within cells from the damage and degeneration
which may be caused by oxidative reactions and free radical
activity.

But the anti-oxidant role of coenzyme Q10 doesn't end
there. It's also important in stimulating the anti-oxidant
activity of vitamin E, and the two nutrients are together
vital for preventing the oxidation of Low Density Lipids
(LDLs), the blood fats better known as "bad cholesterol",
widely recognised as one of the key risk factors for heart
disease, still the major cause of premature death in the
Western world.

Blood levels of coenzyme Q10 are lower than those of the
other vital anti-oxidants, vitamins C and E, but the
nutrient is found in greater concentrations both in muscles
and the major organs of the body; the liver, kidneys, brain
and especially the heart. But the extent to which levels
of coenzyme Q10 within this organ are correlated with
disease remains a matter of dispute. Orthodox medicine is
predictably cautious and maintains that more research is
required before any definitive statement of coenzyme Q10's
benefits can be made.

Nutritional therapists, however, argue that patients with
heart disease have consistently been shown to have
substantially lower levels of coenzyme Q10 in their hearts
than their healthy counterparts. It is also clear that
supplementation with coenzyme Q10 has been effective in
increasing tissue concentrations of the nutrients in such
patients. Logically enough, conclude the nutritional
practitioners, it follows that supplementation should
improve outcomes for heart patients, and some reported
research with daily doses of 100mg does indeed suggest
significant benefits, particularly where problems seem to
lie in the heart muscle itself.

It is particularly important to note that levels of
coenzyme Q10 in the hearts of older individual are
significantly lower than those of younger people, as the
body's production of the nutrient declines markedly from
around the age of forty. Experiments on older rats have
shown that supplementation with coenzyme Q10 can
significantly increase concentrations, with improved heart
protection in consequence, but conventional medicine still
declines to accept the obvious analogy with regard to human
health.

Likewise, there is controversy surrounding the potential
benefits of the anti-oxidant activity of coenzyme Q10 in
preventing atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, a
major precursor of deadly heart disease. What is clear,
however, is that coenzyme Q10 is effective in reducing the
oxidation of dangerous LDL cholesterol, which is a known
risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis.

It should perhaps be no surprise, therefore, that coenzyme
Q10 supplements have been shown to retard the development
of this condition in small animal experiments. But whilst
admitting that these results are encouraging and exciting,
orthodox medical opinion continues to insist that more
research is necessary before a definitive statement of the
benefits of coenzyme Q10 for human health can be made. To
the interested layman, however, there seems little reason
to suppose that the results of the animal experiments would
not also be reflected in humans. And certainly this is the
conclusion which many nutritional practitioners have
reached; regularly recommending doses of anything up to 400
mg of coenzyme Q10 a day.

The case for supplementation with coenzyme Q10 for
sufferers from atherosclerosis and other heart conditions
has been strengthened by recent research showing that one
of the side effects of the popular statin drugs commonly
prescribed in these circumstances is to reduce blood levels
of coenzyme Q10. Conventional medicine does not accept
that this reduction will necessarily have adverse
consequences, but if it is accepted that coenzyme Q10 has
the benefits detailed above, the conclusion seems clear
enough. This is not of course to suggest that statin drugs
should not be taken, but that it may well be wise to
supplement with coenzyme Q10 at the same time.

As noted above, the other major factor reducing
concentrations of coenzyme Q10 in blood and tissue is
simply the ageing of the organism itself, as the body's
ability to synthesise coenzyme Q10 declines dramatically in
the later years of life. Given the importance of the
nutrient as an anti-oxidant, this is of particular concern
in the context of the onset of degenerative diseases. It
seems that coenzyme Q10's fundamental role in the
production of energy may make it important as a fat burner,
thereby helping in the battle against obesity and related
conditions such as diabetes.

Nutritional practitioners even claim that the anti-oxidant
and energy producing qualities of coenzyme Q10 make
supplementation with the nutrient an important weapon in
the fight against cancer, perhaps the ultimate degenerative
disease.

But like all the body's nutrients, coenzyme Q10 functions
best in the presence of adequate amounts of all the others;
and it is particularly important to ensure, through
supplementation if necessary an abundant supply of the
other vital anti-oxidants, vitamins C and E.

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Steve Smith is a freelance copywriter specialising in
direct marketing and with a particular interest in health
products. Find out more at
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formation.htm

How To Tone Your Inner Thighs

How To Tone Your Inner Thighs
Are you having some trouble fitting into your skinny jeans
lately? Your inner thighs are a bit...hmmm...out of
proportion? Don't worry, there is a solution.

First, let's just get something out of the way real quick.
The word tone does not really describe any physiological
process. But, as I regularly coach women, I know exactly
what you mean when you say that you want to 'tone your
inner thighs.'

There are only two physiological processes that can improve
the appearance of your body. One is fat loss. Lose fat -
fit into smaller size clothes. The other one is muscle
building. Now don't freak out, I don't mean to turn you
into Arnold Schwarzenegger. Building a little extra muscle
will make your body firmer and curvier.

If you want to tone your inner thighs, you have to lose fat
from your inner thighs, and maybe build a little muscle.

I'll show you how to do it in a moment, but let me make
another thing very clear here. You cannot choose to lose
fat from a specific place on your body. So if you are going
to lose fat from your inner thighs, you are going to lose
fat from all over your body (this is a good thing).When
building muscle, it is possible to target specific areas of
your body.

The best approach to toning your inner thighs is to:

1. Include exercises for the entire body in order to burn
that fat everywhere (including inner thighs).
2. Include exercises to build a little extra muscle around
the inner thighs and thus make them firmer.

It just so happens that the best exercises for firming up
your inner thighs are also some of the best fat burning
exercises. I'll give you the effective exercises, but
before I do, I want to tell you about the one exercise -
that you probably love - that is not effective.

The fancy name for the exercise is hip adduction, but you
may know it as the 'innie machine.' It's the one where you
sit with your legs spread wide and try to close them
against resistance. It is probably the all-time favorite
for female gym members around the world.

I understand why you may want to do that exercise: you feel
the burn in you inner thighs and it seems intuitive to
focus on the area you want to firm up. But there is one big
problem with this approach.

The best way to work a muscle is to use it the way it was
designed to be used. The collection of muscles that for
your inner thigh are technically called the 'adductors' and
these adductors' primary roles is not to move your upper
thigh in as you would on the 'innie machine.'

The adductors are designed to stabilize your body during
single leg activities such as walking and running.
Therefore, the best exercises for your inner thighs are
those where you are on one leg. Some of the best ones are:
split-squats, lunges, step-ups, and single leg squats. You
can google these to see how to perform them.

Get off the 'innie machine' and start doing these exercises
and you will start burning fat all over you body, tone your
inner thighs, and fit back into your skinny jeans.

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George Grigoryan is a fitness coach who has helped dozens
of women sculpt the body of their dreams. To get his latest
FREE e-book '46 Must Have Toning Tips For A Body That Will
Turn Heads,' please visit: =>
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