If you are looking for a natural remedy for kidney stones, especially if you have a confirmed diagnosis from your doctor that you have a kidney stone by CT scan; you may want to try this as an alternative to expensive surgery.

Did you know that a simple mixture of lemon juice combined with extra virgin olive oil and a separate drink made of celery seeds, parsley and a fresh apple liquefied with coconut water in a blender can break apart the stones and allow for easy passage in only a few hours?

A friend was diagnosed with kidney stones after a horrible night of pain recently.  He told me that his mother is always on the hunt for alternative treatments for disease or health issues. She started giving him dandelion, cleavers and milk thistle in tea form.  Then later on after the definitive diagnosis and x-ray, she made him the abovementioned cocktail and in only about 3-hours; he pa

WellQuest Medical & Wellness Corporation (”WellQuest”) (OTCBB:WEQL) announced the recent launch of its Medically Supervised weight Loss Program. WellQuest’s unique approach to weight loss addresses a growing $2 billion market. WellQuest’s approach to clients’ weight loss offers a complete continuum of care that includes physician supervision, education, counseling, products and maintenance follow-up.

Some simple changes in the design and location of staircases could help to make buildings more “physical activity friendly” and contribute to the fight against obesity, according to an article in the June Southern Medical Journal, official journal of the Southern Medical Association.

obesity is now acknowledged as a chronic disease with a number of related complications, and its prevalence has reached alarming epidemic proportions. While bariatric surgery is effective at treating the disease, access to this procedure is still too limited in Canada. The latest article published by Dr. Nicolas Christou, of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), in the June issue of the Canadian Journal of Surgery assesses the waiting times for this procedure.

Being overweight or obese does not make asthma worse in patients with mild and moderate forms of the disease, according to a study by National Jewish Health researchers, although it may reduce the response to medications. “With both asthma and obesity on the rise in recent years, there has been much interest in the possible link between these two conditions,” said lead author E.

America’s chain restaurants are making Americans fatter and sicker say consumer watchdog Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) who have just awarded their Xtreme eating awards 2009 to chains like the Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, and Applebee for offering appetisers, entrées, and desserts that give you a whole day’s worth of calories in one dish.

Research presented at Digestive Disease Week® 2009 (DDW®) demonstrates the tremendous progress being made in the field of weight management, including alternatives to gastric bypass surgery that are successful in terms of both weight loss and resolution of common co-morbidities including hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol and other disabling conditions.

By inserting a molecular shunt into the livers of mice, researchers have shown they can make the animals burn more fat. That so-called glycoxylate shunt consists of two metabolic enzymes normally found in bacteria and plants, but not in mammals, according to the report in the June issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. “It’s an additional channel for burning fat to control obesity,” said James Liao of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mice lacking the fat hormone leptin or the ability to respond to it become morbidly obese and severely diabetic - not to mention downright sluggish. Now, a new study in the June Cell Metabolism shows that blood sugar control in those animals can be completely restored by returning leptin sensitivity to a single class of neurons in the brain, which account for only a small fraction of those that normally carry the hormone receptors.

The prevalence of overweight in the US population is among the highest in Mexican-American children and adolescents. In a study of 1,030 Hispanic children between the ages of 4 and 19, published in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine found less than optimal diets in both overweight and non-overweight participants.