Your Health and Fitness

Some of us Canadians are getting ready for the Thanksgiving Holiday, Yvan and I will be AWAY for the long weekend.Well be visiting my husbands side of the family in the beautiful Laurentian area. Ill bring along one of my favorite soup!

Roasted Red Bell Pepper & Sweet Potato Soup

Roasting the peppers and sweet potato gives it an extra rich flavor that is delicious and full of vitamin A.

•     3 medium sized red bell peppers, cut into 1 inch squares
•     2 medium sized onions, chopped coarse
•     4 cloves garlic, chopped
•     1 medium sized sweet potato cut into small cubes
•     1 large tomato,  and chopped
•     2½ cups vegetable broth * you can make your own.
•     salt & pepper to taste

Roast all ingredients except vegetable broth uncovered in baking pan in 400 oven, stirring occasionally until tender, about 25-30 minutes.

Blend in batches with vegetable stock. Make sure the blender

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If you are looking for quality information about diabetes type 2 surgery, then the article posted below just might be the piece of the puzzle you have been missing. While it may get into some specifics, you will still be able to understand exactly what the writer is trying to say.

Diabetes Surgery Studied As Potential Treatment For Type 2

Physicians at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have begun enrollment for a pilot study on a promising surgical approach for the management of Type 2 diabetes.

The procedure being tested is designed for adults who have Type 2 diabetes and who are overweight or obese but not morbidly obese.

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Background

Mesh repair of incisional hernia is superior to the conventional technique. From all available materials for open surgery polypropylene (PP) is the most widely used. Development resulted in meshes with larger pore size, decreased mesh surface and lower weight. The aim of this retrospective non randomized study was to compare the quality of life in the long term follow up (>72 month) after incisional hernia repair with “light weight”(LW) and “heavy weight”(HW) PP meshes.

Methods

12 patients who underwent midline open incisional hernia repair with a HW-PP mesh (Prolene(R) 109 g/m2 pore size 1.6mm) between January 1996 and December 1997 were compared with 12 consecutive patients who underwent the same procedure with a LW-PP mesh (Vypro(R) 54g/m2, pore size 4-5mm) from January 1998.

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Other recent studies have found a connection between testicular and prostate cancer and infertility.

In the new study, the largest ever to look at fertility and mortality, researchers analyzed a decade’s worth of data about 135,000 male AARP members.

At the beginning of the decade, none of the men had ever been diagnosed with heart disease or stroke, and all of them were either married or had been married. More than nine out of 10 of the men, whose average age was around 63 at the beginning, had fathered children.

Lead author Dr. Michael Eisenberg, an assistant professor at Stanford University, may be a urologist, but he’s concerned about his patients’ other body parts, too.

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Diabetes patients who visit a primary care doctor every few weeks achieve quicker control of their blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, researchers have found.

Control of these levels reduces the risk of diabetes-related complications, but most diabetes patients do not have these levels under control.

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