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Finally, a Non-Invasive, Non-Surgical, FDA-Approved Treatment for Hemorrhoids: End your silent suffering today.

Linda J. had been suffering from severe itching and burning sensations from hemorrhoids for months before she sought help. When the sensations began waking her up at night, she knew it was time to do something – but what?

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The Cheers of the Fitness Industry:
At Anytime Fitness Everybody Knows Your Name

Anytime Fitness takes a modern approach to working out. Understanding that Americans lead hectic lives - between work and caring for their homes and kids - Anytime Fitness has raised the bar for gyms nationwide.

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Orthotics Provide More Than Just Arch Support

When your feet hurt, you feel it all over your body. When examining feet, I often notice pressure areas causing a buildup of calluses. Over time these calluses, along with unequal distribution of weight, cause various forms of foot and ankle pain. After examining both feet and performing a gait or “walking” analysis, I often find patients are in need of orthotics.

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SUPPLEMENTS: New Technology Makes Huge Health Breakthroughs

The Physical Medicine Center in Tampa has partnered with Spectracell Labs to create a new series of nutritional testing panels. Nutritionists can now use simple blood tests to evaluate the “intracellular function” of nutrients. This means actual nutrient levels can be measured by observing their function in the body.

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Summer Brain Drain

Summer is almost here, and kids will soon be on vacation. Unfortunately, students will forget a great deal of their hard-earned knowledge from the school year. This is called “summer brain drain.” Almost all kids will experience summer brain drain, but some will be more affected by it than others.

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Inches-A-Weigh: Ease Into Your Workout in Comfort and Style

Inches-A-Weigh is a Women’s only workout facility that caters to women of all ages who might have been leading sedentary lifestyles or have fallen back on working out. Proper nutrition, toning, and cardio offered at Inches-A-Weigh is the basis of their III phase method for results.

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Control Your Weight, REDUCE YOUR CANCER RISK

Amidst all the buzz about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle – such as a decreased risk of diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke – there’s one you might not have heard before. Research indicates that by eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight and leading a more active lifestyle can reduce your cancer risk.

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Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Seven Oaks Pet Hospital Has Your Pet Covered!

Looking for a new approach to pet health? Seven Oaks Pet Hospital in Wesley Chapel is a full-service veterinarian for your dog, cat, hamster, guinea pig or other furry friend. Dr. Sree Reddy combines years of experience in emergency pet care and animal rescue with modern approaches to diet, nutrition and senior pet care.

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Tampa Ear, Nose & Throat Associates opens a new office in Wesley Chapel in the Cypress Ridge Professional Center

Tampa Ear, Nose & Throat Associates has more than 20 years of experience in their office at 3450 E Fletcher Ave. in Tampa, and has now opened a satellite office to accommodate the Wesley Chapel and New Tampa patients at 26827 Foggy Creek Road in Wesley Chapel. As always, all ages are welcomed and treated.

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Shedding Light on a Dreaded Disease

CANCER! The word evokes so much fear that when the dentist does a routine examination for it, the word may not be spoken. What is Dr. Wiener doing when he feels around your neck, pulls on your tongue, or asks you to say ahh? This is all part of a routine examination for oral and head and neck cancer. While cure rates for other forms of cancer are increasing, the cure rate for oral cancer is not. This is despite the frequent routine examination by most dentists. It turns out that by the time the dentists sees something, it could be too late.

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AXIOM 9000 Nonsurgical Spinal Decompression Treats Chronic Low Back Pain

In most industrialized countries, chronic low back pain (LBP) is a wide spread condition. It is currently recognized that acute LBP tends to relapse and many patients experience recurring episodes, leading to a chronic condition. Current evidence shows 25% to 60% of patients will experience another episode at 1 year or so after the initial episode. Statistics show that in as many as 1 in 3 patients, chronic LBP eventually persists indefinitely and is disabling.

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Dr. Szakacs Offers Back Pain Relief Without Surgery

If you suffer from chronic back pain from an injury, sciatica, herniated disc or other back and neck problems, you know how difficult it is to perform even the simplest of tasks. Many people turn to painkillers or surgery for help, but medication is only a "masking" solution, and surgery often does more harm than good.

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Pets Live Longer with Proper Oral Hygiene

Bad breath in a dog is often dismissed simply as "doggy breath." In fact, it may signal periodontal disease, which is the most common ailment suffered by dogs and cats over 3 years old. Preventing periodontal disease can result in longer, healthier lives for pets.

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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Many people have financial concerns about having dental procedures done. Even with insurance, fillings, root canals and crowns can leave patients desiring to put it off until later. Todd J. Wiener General Dentistry is helping to make dental work more affordable.

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Quantum Vitality Centres: Curing -- Not Masking -- Pain

Dr. Pete Szacaks has been in the business of treating chiropractic pain for more than 28 years, and he knows how important technology is in his industry. The machines, methods and devices Dr. Szacaks (pronounced "Say-catch," but known to his patients as Dr. Pete) uses in his practice are always on the cutting edge.

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The Metabolic Syndrome - Do you need to know about this?

Another term for metabolic syndrome is insulin resistance syndrome or syndrome X. The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a set of criteria for the metabolic syndrome is 1998. Currently, the Adult Treatment Panel III updated the criteria in collaboration with the American Heart Association & National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

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Family Dentistry in New Tampa Knows How Important Your Time Is - Experience No Waiting

Have you ever felt abandoned in the doctor's waiting room? As time passes, apprehensions grow and patience wears thin. Dr. Wiener realizes that your time is valuable and that waiting time is wasted time. Scheduling expertise enables them to minimize or even eliminate your wait. How refreshing!

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Dr. Singh Helps Joshua House with his Open House

Holidays are a time to spend time with family, shopping, cooking and baking. Many people tend to over indulge in the sinful foods they have put before them and the children generally get the toys they ask for. That's typically what happens in "our world", but for many others, they aren't so fortunate.

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100 MEMBERS.
Tampa's Most Elite Personal Training & Wellness Clinic
(Results Guaranteed!)

The Rejuvenation & Wellness Center of Tampa Palms will soon unveil its life transformation experience on January 2008. This new age facility brings a compilation of factors which determine a custom fit to your body's genetic structure.

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Lutz Weight Loss Clinic Tackles Obesity for All Ages

Lutz, FL - What sets Dr. Barbara Pacholec apart from most "weight management" clinics and spas is her unique, long-term medical experience and her board certification by the American Board of Bariatric Physicians. Unlike many counselors and physicians who treat issues related to weight loss and obesity, her particular specialization is in bariatric care, nutrition and treating obesity.

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'Tis The Season Of Impatient Drivers:
How to Properly Examine Your Surroundings if the Worst Happens

By Robert Lupo

I wanted to remind everyone that as we start up the winter season here in sunny Florida, the roads can get pretty busy with our winter guests here in our great state. Bruce B. Downs can look like a parking lot one minute and when things open up, everyone takes off fast to make up for lost time. Now, of course, you know how the story goes from here.

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Wesley Chapel Offers One Roof for Family Treatment & Care

I wanted to remind everyone that as we start up the winter season here in sunny Florida, the roads can get pretty busy with our winter guests here in our great state. Bruce B. Downs can look like a parking lot one minute and when things open up, everyone takes off fast to make up for lost time. Now, of course, you know how the story goes from here.

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Pets Receive Acupuncture and Herbal Therapy in Wesley Chapel's Own Seven Oaks Pet Hospital

Wesley Chapel, FL - The Chinese believe that everything (people, animal, plants, the earth, the sky) is c-o-n-n-e-c-t-e-d. They also believe that all the connections have an innate balance between them. The day is balanced with night, hot with cold, male with female, Yin with Yang. This balance is maintained through the flow of energy between and within these areas. This energy is known as "qi" pronounced "chi".

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The Future of Fat Loss
Are the foods you are eating keeping you from losing weight?

Tampa, FL - Americans are surprised to learn that 99 percent of the population has a food sensitivity problem. There is a big difference between food sensitivity and food allergy. Most people know at a young age if they have a food allergy, for instance when your throat closes up when eating shell fish. Food sensitivity symptoms can take eight hours to three days to become evident, which makes it extremely difficult to identify the actual root problem.

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THREE LOCAL HOSPITALS TO BENEFIT FROM NEW NATIONAL ALLIANCE TOGETHER FOR KIDS

Nonprofit Alliance Will Help 53 Hospitals in 47 U.S. Cities
Care for Seriously Ill and Injured Kids. Childhood Obesity,
Injury Prevention are Priorities

Tampa, FL - Leaders of St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, Tampa General Hospital’s Children’s Medical Center and Shriners Hospitals for Children-Tampa announced their involvement in a new nonprofit foundation, Together for Kids™, which will raise funds nationally to help cope with dramatic increases in the health needs of children. The local announcement was in conjunction with a press conference held today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for the launch of Together for Kids.

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Do You Lose Your Balance?
Have A Fear Of Falling?

By: Dr. Robert Lupo

Falls are the leading cause of injury deaths among individuals who are 65 years of age and 60% of those are in the age 75 or older. In the year 2000, falls among elderly individuals accounted for 10,200 deaths and 1,600,000 emergency room visits. Statistics further show that 25% of elderly persons who sustain a hip fracture will die within one year. The hospital admissions for hip fractures among the elderly have increased from 231,000 admissions in 1988 to 332,000 in 1999. The number of hip fractures is expected to exceed 500,000 by 2040.

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Are You Living To Eat Or Eating To Live?
Make The Choice...

By: Samantha Taylor

One of the biggest challenges with weight loss in this country is that most people don’t live a healthy lifestyle. The average way a person loses weight is to go on a diet they can’t live with, lose some weight and then go back to eating the way they used to. A lifestyle is a way of life or a style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person. If you are reading this newspaper, chances are you are more aware of your health then the average person but how is your weight? Do you fluctuate a lot and find it hard to maintain? I encourage you to look at the daily or weekly habits that you have. How is your portion control? Do you eat frequently throughout the day or only once or twice? Do you exercise every once in a while? Do you eat late at night? Do over consume sugar? These are all habits we can develop that become our lifestyle which creates the outcome we live with on a daily basis.

If you want to change your results, then you need to change your lifestyle. If you want to change your lifestyle, then you need to change your daily habits.

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Ageless, Timeless, and Forever Young
New Tampa Health and Wellness Offers OptiOns fOr EveryOne

By: Terra Walters

Are you considering cosmetic surgery? Have you been thinking of having a face lift? Before you go under the knife, consider stopping in for a free consultation at New Tampa Health and Wellness. New Tampa's team of doctors, facialists and laser specialists can delay the need for a face lift for 10 to 15 years -- without surgery!

New Tampa Health and Wellness is an all-inclusive wellness practice that offers numerous procedures, products and services aimed at curing skin problems and boosting the self-esteem of men and women of all ages, even teens. Opened by owner Susan Andreychuk and Maryann Bosso in October 2005, New Tampa Health and Wellness offers a wide range of services and specialized care that will keep you looking as young as you feel. Ladies, we all know that 40 is the new 20, but sometimes it seems like our skin just missed that memo.

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Treating Pets With True Caring:
Seven Oaks Pet Hospital’s Holistic Approach

By: Terra Walters

Wesley Chapel, FL - The staff at Seven Oaks Pet Hospital takes a different approach to treating your furry, finned and feathered friends than most. The dedicated lead veterinarian, Dr. Sree Reddy, is personally on call 24/7 for emergencies, and pet owners can choose from a wide variety of treatments and health regimens for their winged and four-footed best buds.

Dr. Reddy believes that practicing preventive care is the best way to keep your pet healthy and happy well into middle and advanced age. He uses an integrative approach: a mixture of Western medicine (medications and surgeries) along with Eastern methods such as acupuncture and herbal treatments. Pets who have trouble with side effects from Western medications often react positively to Eastern treatments, Reddy says.

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