Why You Should Use A Body Mass Index BMI Calculator
Body mass index is defined as the individuals body weight divided by their height in inches. It is a measure of obesity (or non-obesity). BMI is not a diagnostic tool, it is an indicator of weight status. It is a better indicator of excess body fat than body weight measurement alone, which is why medical professionals rely on the universal body mass index scale when evaluating patients health.

The Body Mass Index is generally used as a means of correlation between groups related by general mass and can serve as a vague means of estimating adiposity. This is just one of many factors related to developing a chronic disease (such as heart disease, cancer, or diabetes). As a measure, it became popular during the early 1950s and 60s as obesity started to become a discernible issue in prosperous Western society.

Obesity has become increasingly prevalent in the United States and in Europe over the past several decades. Obesity has been linked to the increased risk of cancer, heart disease, and other health problems. About 14% of cancer related deaths are due to obesity in men over 50 years of age. BMI for adults fall into one of these categories, normal, overweight, obese, or underweight. The only disadvantage of using the Body Mass Index is the difficulty in interpreting the units to actual weight (in pounds) that must be lost.

A BMI nearing 15 is usually used as an indicator for starvation and the health risks involved such as anorexia nervosa. Obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 or if their weight is 20% greater the average person in their age and gender. Extreme obesity is a BMI of 40 or more which is found in 2% of men and 4% of women in the US.

In the United States, it is also used as a measure of being underweight from suffering with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. However, BMI categories do not take into account many factors such as frame size and muscularity.

In fact, some argue that the error in the BMI is significant and so pervasive that it is not generally useful in evaluation of health. For instance, professional football players who bulk up could be considered obese but are in very good shape and the scale might not reflect their overall health.

If your body mass index is 30 or higher it is recommended that you seek help with progressive weight loss through diet combined with regular exercise such as walking daily.

While the technique for calculating body mass index is the same as in adults, the results are measured differently in children because they are still growing. ***

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By Brad Gibala
Brad writes about health issues. If you are concerned about your health be sure to check out a free bmi calculator to figure out what your body mass index is from OnlineCalculating.com
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How To Determine Your Ideal Body Weight
Use the body mass index (BMI) to calculate your ideal healthy body weight. The BMI calculator is a method used to determine whether you are currently underweight, overweight or obese. This test works for all age groups, genders and body types.

Here's how it works. Take your weight in pounds and divide by your height in inches squared.
Weight in pounds / (Height in inches) x (Height in inches)
Multiply this figure by 703 to calculate BMI

Here's the scale to measure your results:
-BMI below 20 is considered underweight
-BMI between 25 and 30 is considered overweight
-BMI over 30 is considered obese

Example
Let's take a 220 pound male who's 6 feet 2 inches tall and calculate his BMI.
6 feet two inches = 72 inches
72 x 72 =5184
220/5184 = 0.0424
0.0424 x 703 = 29

By looking at the BMI scale, we can see that the subject of our example is overweight.

The BMI calculator is just a way for you to confirm, through objective means, that you need to lose some pounds. How many pounds should you shed? That's entirely up to you. You know your tendencies and you know what makes you feel comfortable. Use the BMI index to get a general idea of where you need to go. Set up an ideal scenario where you lose a certain amount of pounds. Be reasonable with your weight loss plans. Set goals that you know you can achieve.

Analyze your eating habits. Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Enable good behavior and try to limit unhealthy tendencies. If you eat lots of fruits and veggies or cook complete meals, these are things that you can build on. If you overeat, miss meals or snack too much, then these are habits that'll require adjustment. Discover the reasoning behind your personal eating habits. Do you overeat when you get emotional, bored, lonely or stressed? When you find out what's driving your behavior, you'll be better prepared to adjust your habits.

Think about past diets or weight loss plans that you have experienced. What was successful about your previous efforts? What aspects of your previous weight loss attempts were unsuccessful? If you need a diet solution that'll allow you to be flexible, consider the UnDiet weight control system. UnDiet is a system of supplements designed to improve your metabolic rate and control bouts of hunger. UnDiet is an effective, convenient and unrestrictive way to jumpstart a long-term weight loss strategy.

Once you've identified your strengths, weaknesses and ideal body weight, you can then begin to craft a strategy for long-term weight loss. This strategy will be based on healthy eating and exercise. Just make sure that you can find the right balance between calorie intake and calorie burning. ***

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By Chris Stout
Chris Stout, after experiencing his own dietary frustrations, has become an expert on weight loss as well as other health related topics. Chris offers helpful advice and useful tips regarding dietary problems and weight loss in his articles for Medgen. You can find more great information and products for weight loss.
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Weight Loss Using BMI And BMR
Weight Loss seems almost impossibly complicated for us normal people. We struggle with this program and that, never understanding what's going on and being made to feel guilty if we don't look like a TV celebrity. It's really quite simple...we gain when we take in more calories than we use up...we lose when we take in less. The trick is in knowing how much we should weigh, the number of calories we need and how to balance our diet to get those calories in a healthy way. Fortunately, BMI and BMR can help us know what we need to get to the right weight.

BMI-Body Mass Index: The BMI can give us an approximation of what we should weigh, based, primarily on our height. All you need to do is plug your height and weight into an online Calculator (see BMI Calculator link below) to find out if you're underweight, normal, overweight or obese. Then work the weight numbers backwards to find out what "normal" is for your height. Now, I strongly believe the person who invented this was anorexic, so, don't be surprised at how light "normal" is. I said it was an approximation! There are wide variations in healthy weight among humans of the same height, like sex and frame size. Another common variation is, as we get older, we can afford to be a little more, shall we say, fluffy. The point is, you now have a way to figure out how much you should weigh based on something more objective than the TV.

BMR-Basal Metabolic Rate: Your BMR is basically, the number of calories your body needs to maintain its current weight. Like the BMI, it's an approximation. If you're an athlete, for instance, you'll need many more calories...couch potatoes need less, but then, couch potatoes don't read this far into a health article. To get your BMR, simply enter your sex, age and weight into a Calculator (see BMR Calorie Burning Calculator below). The number you get out is the number of calories you need to maintain your current weight.

Using The BMI And BMR For Weight Loss: Now, here's where BMI and BMR can be powerful weight loss tools. The BMI Calculator page instructs you how to adjust the BMI for the two most common variations...sex and frame size. Once you've taken the BMI normal weight and adjusted it for sex and frame size, you have your "goal" weight. Instead of your current weight, enter this "goal" along with your sex and age into the BMR Calorie Burning Calculator. The new number of calories are the daily amount you need to slowly lose weight down to your goal and maintain it (optimum calories). Of course, check all of this with your doctor before making any changes because certain medical conditions require special consideration. Still, with BMR and BMI, it's pretty easy to know where the goal line is...the final step is how to get to the goal line.

Fat, Protein, Carbs, Fiber, Water: Once you know your optimum calories, it's simply a matter of balancing your daily food intake to add up to that total. There are so many different ideas of how to do that, I'm only going to glance over it in this article. In the near future I'll be publishing articles to cover different dietary balance styles for different circumstances. The new USDA Food Pyramid can give you good ideas on balancing your fats, proteins, carbs, fiber and water. If you make sure to keep your diet balanced and keep the daily calories near your optimum, you should slowly and comfortably lose weight until you reach your goal. As an added plus, once you get to the goal, you don't have to change a thing...you've been doing the right thing all along. ***

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By Glen D. Williams
Glen Williams is founder and CEO of EHF, Inc. and Webmaster for http://www.e-health-fitness.com. He has done extensive research on personal and family health and fitness issues and has been helping and advising people on health since 1987.
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Is it Possible to Lose Weight Fast?
Want to slim down fast? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight to quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diets pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscles and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go overnight miracle. It's been hilarious when people talk wildly about how they're on a diet. In reality, we're all on diets. If you eat, you're on some kind of diet. Obviously folks of diets plans they most likely want to talk about the aid in dropping a few pounds.

They want a diet plan that allows them to lose weight quickly, and not have to put much effort fourth. Well, it's a great idea and good luck with that! If you really intend to get the weight off and keep it that way, you might have to put some elbow grease into the process. A successful weight loss strategy based on reducing calorie intake and increasing activity can be adjusted to maintain your desired weight once you reach it. In addition, weight training, no matter what your age, prevents muscle atrophy and can help stave off osteoporosisis.

Losing weight is simply a matter of expending more calories, through exercise and your daily activities, than you take in. Exercise alone won't make you lose weight if you're still taking in more calories that you burn. Therefore you should exercise harder and eat more protein dense, clean foods; making your calories burned not too far off from your calories taken in well raise your metabolism and allow you to burn fat effortlessly.

Losing weight fast is not an easy as you think. The most effective way to lose weight is to diet and exercise. I've even tried weight loss with hypnosis for a while with pretty good results. Making good decisions about what you eat and how much you eat will go a long way in losing weight. Having an exercise routine that you can keep up with will ensure that you keep the weight off. Remember, you can lose weight either by decreasing your calorie intake or increasing the number of calories you burn. Any strategy should include both, but if you want to lose weight fast, exercise is essential. You need to consult on your doctor if you want to use a diet pills in order to lose weight fast because this kind too dangerous decision.

My wife and teenage daughter is an example and they are both on diet plans that will apparently help them shed body fat. These are eating plans that they both invented on their own. Even though my wife's is literally practical, since she sticks to a low-fat, low-sugar meal plan consisting of small portions at a time; my daughter's is not so realistic. She has cut fast food and sugary desserts out of her daily food consumption, but she eats too large of portions. Losing weight goal quickly is a terrible idea. She incorporates way too many carbs and condiments into her meals. It's like she can't eat without ketchup, pickle relish, mayonnaise and salad dressing. Oh, and let's not forget bread. She has white bread with every meal. I keep on telling her that condiments are not good for the body because it loaded with sugar and sodium. And the bread consists of bad carbs, which will break down into sugar and most likely get stored as fat. And she hasn't listen to me and no progress happened to her in losing her weight. In order to successfully lose weight quickly you have to adopt a healthy diet, consisting of smaller portions.

Several people look for diets that will help them lose weight fast. The truth it is that there is no diet out there that will help you lose weight fast. The goal is too lose weight fast, not just weight in general, if you are doing in strength training during your weight loss, you might actually see an initial gain in weight. Don't worry you have probably lost fat and gained muscle, which is denser than fat and it much healthier. The reality is that most people will fail if trying to follow these diets because they are not based on realistic and practical methods.

One day when I wake up I found out that vigorous exercise routine in hopes that will help you lose weight fast is not a good idea. If you are seriously overweight or not in very good shape, there is a very good chance that you will overdo it physically. Generally, you want to - with a combination of calorie reduction and increased activity - reduce and burn a certain number of calories a day, causing a net loss of calories so your body is forced to use its own stores of fat. How much aerobic exercise you need to perform depends on what you eat, how fast you'd like to lose weight, and how much muscle you gain. With regard to weights, men and women differ on their goals with weight training. Women, don't worry, no amount of weight training will make you as bulky as a man; women just don't have enough testosterone to build large muscles. Just like diet, having a realistic exercise plan that you can follow every day for the rest of your life is the only way to lose weight and keep it off for good.

On the other, hand quick fixes of surgical procedures are very risky so you must ask yourself if you are willing to die to be skinny. And drastic measures such as gastric bypass surgery or the lap band surgery should be thought out for months before you seriously consider doing it. "Quick fix" is not healthy! if you're striving to lose weight quickly and many of them pull water from your muscles and organs so that it appears you've lost weight. It's common sense that this is NOT HEALTHY. The best way to lose weight quickly is still through healthy dieting and regular exercise.

No matter what the magazine article says, spot improving is a myth! When your body burns fat, it takes it from all over your body, even if all you do are crunches. Remember your body needs 'fuel' just like a car needs 'fuel'. Your body needs the 'right' kinds of food to lose weight effectively. Crizza weight loss with hypnosis ***

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by Crizza Reyes

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Hoodia Gordonii Products for Weight Reduction
Hoodia is found in southern regions of Africa and a member of the cactus plant family. Over the last couple of years, Hoodia has overtly been used in the weight loss market and has gained huge popularity as a dieting supplement. If you are in search of correct information on Hoodia products, you must have come across much contradictory and misinformation on the internet about Hoodia.

The CBS and even 60 minutes broadcast program on using Hoodia as an "appetite suppressant" has spread mayhem like wildfire across the globe the amazing effect of this plant as a weight reduction agent. Because of this quick popularity that Hoodia has achieved one can very easily now find different brands of Hoodia products showing up everyday. Various in depth research suggest Hoodia products are very effective for reducing weight.

One who intends to purchase hoodia products s/he has to consider many important factors prior to the purchase to become a smart buyer. One has to make sure that s/he is getting real Hoodia so one can enjoy the weight loss benefits and not squander the money around. The Hoodia product comparison chart is compiled with the best priced Hoodia at the top and the cheap priced product at the bottom. It is essential to consider that although price is important, testing and other factors are equally important points prior to the purchase of Hoodia.

The Desert Burn Hoodia brand we found for random independent testing has received most certification so far. Both the Desert Burn Hoodia and Hoodoba Pure passed Alkemist Pharmaceuticals independent test of authenticity. The certification and testing are important factors to establish the authenticity of different brands of Hoodia products. Now a lot of Hoodia consumers are also vocal on being able to return Hoodia Products if they don't work for them. The three big Hoodia product companies that assure the best return policies were Hoodia 750, with a 200% Guarantee and both Optimum Hoodia and Hoodia XR are the only two brands available in the market to allow return of opened bottles.***

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by Wouter Van Dyck
Wouter Van Dyck wrote many articles about different weight loss plans. He has experienced dozens of programs himself over the years but finally found a solution. You can read more about losing weight and more reviews of hoodia diet pills by visiting the Hoodia diet pills review website: http://www.hoodiadietpillsreview.com where you can receive your FREE Diet and Health E-book.

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Can Hoodia xpf Diet Pills Really Help Me Lose Weight?
When the question of weight-loss arises, people always favor awkward methods. People don't want to learn ?Dietary Fundamentals'; they don't want to pursue healthy food habits. In fact many of you are still looking for overnight results. And that is the reason for hundreds of diet-pills and weight loss supplements on the market. The latest arrival on the Weight Loss circuit is an unbeatable African luscious product known as Hoodia Gordonii.

How does Hoodia Diet Pill Breaking Barrier?For decades, the diet pill industry has been an all-natural appetite suppressant with no side effects other than the intended weight loss. However many diet pills became very popular within a shot span of time. While many of these worked, they often came with a heavy list of side effects. After a preliminary flurry of sales and excitement, most were dumped off due to dangers associated with its use, and some were even debarred from selling. Hoodia diet pills were launched in the U.S. market in early 2004; Hoodia Gordonii product has been steadily penetrating the market as a powerful appetite reducer that can help you lose weight. Its popularity was significantly boosted through a wide coverage by media giants ABC News and BBC News.

According to Phytopharm, the company that holds the patent on the process to extract ?P57' an active ingredient from hoodia, human subjects taking hoodia roots reduced their calorie intake by as much as 2k calories a day. So figures are impressive, and so far the overall results are satisfactory.

Is Hoodia Safe?Since major News desks like ABC News and BBC News endorse Hoodia diet pill, scammers found it's extremely easy to sell junks in the name of Hoodia. Many hoodia supplements available on the market actually do not have Hoodia Gordonii. Some even contains dangerous chemicals. Obviously it's hard to tell which Company sells genuine products and who don't. However before rushing to purchase a Hoodia product, consult your doctor, check the product certificate and take guidance from your colleague who has already used the product. Be alert, don't allow you to be cheated. Hoodia is a very expensive plant. So it's virtually impossible to sell Hoodia at a peanut price.

For more information visit: When the question of weight-loss arises, people always favor awkward methods. People don't want to learn ?Dietary Fundamentals'; they don't want to pursue healthy food habits. In fact many of you are still looking for overnight results. And that is the reason for hundreds of diet-pills and weight loss supplements on the market. The latest arrival on the Weight Loss circuit is an unbeatable African luscious product known as Hoodia Gordonii.

How does Hoodia Diet Pill Breaking Barrier?For decades, the diet pill industry has been an all-natural appetite suppressant with no side effects other than the intended weight loss. However many diet pills became very popular within a shot span of time. While many of these worked, they often came with a heavy list of side effects. After a preliminary flurry of sales and excitement, most were dumped off due to dangers associated with its use, and some were even debarred from selling. Hoodia diet pills were launched in the U.S. market in early 2004; Hoodia Gordonii product has been steadily penetrating the market as a powerful appetite reducer that can help you lose weight. Its popularity was significantly boosted through a wide coverage by media giants ABC News and BBC News.

According to Phytopharm, the company that holds the patent on the process to extract ?P57' an active ingredient from hoodia, human subjects taking hoodia roots reduced their calorie intake by as much as 2k calories a day. So figures are impressive, and so far the overall results are satisfactory.

Is Hoodia Safe?Since major News desks like ABC News and BBC News endorse Hoodia diet pill, scammers found it's extremely easy to sell junks in the name of Hoodia. Many hoodia supplements available on the market actually do not have Hoodia Gordonii. Some even contains dangerous chemicals. Obviously it's hard to tell which Company sells genuine products and who don't. However before rushing to purchase a Hoodia product, consult your doctor, check the product certificate and take guidance from your colleague who has already used the product. Be alert, don't allow you to be cheated. Hoodia is a very expensive plant. So it's virtually impossible to sell Hoodia at a peanut price.***

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by Urs Fehr
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Urs Fehr is an online product reviewer. Their latest review, Hoodia Gordonii Plus is now available.

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Rapid Weight Loss Diet Plan - 5 Tips for Your Weekly Weight Loss Diet Plan
Whether you are following a rapid weight loss diet plan or trying to lose weight slowly, you are facing a life style change that is totally based on how your work week goes. Usually most work weeks are filled with long commutes, long hours and perhaps social outings that seem to deliberately throw us off from our plans. If you need to loose weight quickly, then you need to be near perfect in executing your weight loss plan.

Here are five tips you help you be most effective in losing weight. These should be part of your weekly routine. Please note these tips require some thought and it is suggested you execute some of these items on your day off. Create your weekly menu On a rapid weight loss diet plan, your success or failure is solely based on what you eat and what you don’t eat. So, you should create a menu. The menu should serve as a guide to every meal you will eat during the week. I suggest you buy a spiral note book or composition book and date the menus you create. This way you can take notes and review past menus. Keep the menu with you during the week and mark down if you ate what you planned. Also make notes of when you cheated.

Create your shopping list and go shopping After you create your menu, you need to look at the meals you have planned and make a shopping list. Your shopping list should be very simple with only the items that support your menu. Identify Possible Cheat Days for the upcoming week No matter how hard you try to lose weight you will always be in a situation where you may be tempted to over eat. This includes social outings with co-workers or friends. Identifying these days will help you over come them.

Prepare your meals ahead of time. Preparing your meals ahead of time provides the following: you are making a commitment to eat that meal and you are ensuring yourself you are going to eat a meal that is helping you reach your weight loss goals. Review your week Always review the week to see how successful you where with your weekly menu. You’ll be able to see what you worked and didn’t work. Simply, take a look at your menu and then review the meals you ate. If you took good notes, then you’ll be able to use the review process as a learning experience to fine tune your rapid weight loss diet. Why do some people lose weight and stay thin all the time? ***

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by John Purfield
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What is the Surest and Simplest Way to Lose Weight?
You was downright obsessed with your weight for a long time. And like most dieters, you tried everything - low calorie, starvation, the liquid fasts, ephedra, Atkins, South Beach...you name it, you've probably tried it. Every body knows that those extra pounds spell illness. 10% of your daily caloric intake is used to process foods in your body. It is more about staying fit and remaining healthy to ensure a long, disease free life. Don't confuse WEIGHT loss with FAT loss! You just have to choose the right foods, make exercise a part of your lifestyle and to have a positive attitude. And keep in mind that ALL you eating should be a pleasure.

Tips and recommendations for an easy and successful weight loss method that is largely ignored by the vast majority of people... - Set a goal. Figure out how fast you can do it, then create a plan to increase your vitality. Incorporating exercise and good nutrition into your daily routine. - Don’t make too many changes at once. Start with small changes. Check your weight before you start your diet and keep checking for changes but do not expect a radical change immediately, it might be one or two weeks before you notice some change.

However it is crucial that you continue to monitor your weight. - Start your day with a glass of water. Water is not just way to flush out toxin but if you have more water in your body you will generally feel healthier and and fitter. The best thing about water is that is has no calories at all. - Include in your diet things that contain more water like tomatoes and watermelons. These things contain 90 to 95 % water so that there is nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. - Learn about the nutrients contained in the foods you eat. Provide the body with all the essential nutrients for a long and healthful life. - Eat small portions, about 5 or 6 times each day… Don’t skip breakfast and Don’t eat anything for at least an hour before going to bed. This helps keep your metabolic rate high, and helps you lose weight naturally. - Avoid wasting calories on alcoholic beverages.

The average alcoholic drink contains 150-200 calories per glass. - Lose or gain weight because you want to and not to please others. - Don’t expect immediate results… Your results will come in direct proportion to the amount of effort you put in. - Avoid refined carbohydrates, such as white bread and white sugar. Each time you consume something sweet understand that it is going to add on somewhere. - Go easy on salt, as too much salt is one of the causes of obesity. Make it a point to really cut down on salt. - Choose fruits, vegetables or whole-grain products. When you eat fruit, you are taking in a lot of fiber, which is needed by the body, and fruits of course are an excellent source of vitamins. So try to include in your diet as many fruits and vegetables as you can. - Challenge yourself to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables each day. Try to eat your vegetables raw. When you cook them, you are in fact taking away nearly half the vitamins in them. - Exercise is the best way to keep obesity, hypertension and all those lifestyle-related disorders under control.

Exercise and positive attitude are the only things you need to lose fat permanently… In order to stay fit you need exercise and in order to exercise you need to be fit. - Try and follow an exercise routine that is suitable for you. And try to get somebody to exercise along with you. One of the advantages of getting a committed person t exercise with you is that it keeps you going. - You must to learn: WHAT to eat, WHEN to eat it, HOW to manipulate your calories so that you're constantly losing weight. - Celebrate each small success and keep in mind every small step in the right direction is bringing you closer mand closer to your main target.

The rule to be followed is slow and steady wins the race. Below I have included a table of the various exercises and the number of calories that can be burnt with each exercise. Choose what you can do best and try to do whatever you wish to do for at least twenty minutes.
· Aerobics ==> 200-250 calories
· Bicycling, Stationary ==> 250-300 calories
· Bicycling, Actual ==> 300-400 calories
· Running, 5-6 mph ==> 300-350 calories
· Stair climber ==> 200-250 calories
· Swimming laps ==> 350 calories
· Walking briskly ==> 150-180 calories Eat intelligently.
The difference between man and beast is that we are driven by intelligence while beasts are driven by instinct. Don’t just eat something because you feel like eating it. Don't think diet, just eat and lose weight! And Think Like a Winner! ***

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by Anne-Marie RONSEN
The article offered here is submitted as information only and not to be used for the treatment of injury or disease. If you have an injury or think you may have a disease of any type see your healthcare professional immediately.

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