August 30, 2011
How to Whittle Your Menopause Middle
Feel like you’re losing the battle of the bulge? You’re not alone. Weight gain — especially around your waistline — is common during menopause, but these tips can help you zap the fat.
Though many women struggle with weight gain at various points in their lives, it can be a particular challenge during menopause.
“As people age, they begin to lose lean tissue [muscle], so they have a higher amount of fat-to-muscle than they did in their younger years,” says Melissa Halas-Liang, MA, RD, CDE, a spokeswoman for the California Dietetic Association. “Fat burns fewer calories than muscle. If women who have been through menopause eat the same amount of calories as they ate when they were younger, they will gain weight.”
That extra weight will likely pop up in the form of belly fat. Whereas women tend to store extra fat in their thighs and hips before menopause, decreases in the hormones estrogen and progesterone after menopause can cause any weight gain to shift to the abdominal region. Specifically, fat accumulates around the waist and internal abdominal organs, such as the liver. This is particularly dangerous because it can increase the risk for diabetes, heart disease, and high cholesterol.
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August 17, 2011
Concierge medicine coming to blue-collar neighborhood
Another local physician is converting his practice over to a concierge, or retainer-based, style of medicine, but this time the doctor making the switch isn’t located in an affluent neighborhood.Dr. Brian Stein, a private practice family physician in Northeast Philadelphia, serves a largely blue-collar community. Stein decided to change to the concierge model in large part because of concerns he has over health-care reform, which he thinks will result in 35 million new patients “flooding the system” and not enough primary-care doctors to care for them. The result, he said, will be patients receiving care in “five-minute increments” from anonymous providers.
“What I want to do is have a more personalized model of health care,” Stein said.
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August 12, 2011
Pippa’s Butt Is The New It Butt
Hell with hemlines — the new barometer of trends is now the ass. And this season, the It Butt belongs to Pippa Middleton.
In the most bizarre trend piece I’ve read in a long time, the Times of London (via the Telegraph) speculates that Pippa has replaced former butt greats J. Lo, Beyonce, Serena Williams, and Kim Kardashian as everybody’s gluteal role model. Says plastic surgeon Dr. Constantino Mendieta,
The buttocks have been an increasing and escalating interest over the last four to five years, but the iconic figures were Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian. Both have tremendous curves and large buttocks. While lots of people love the overall shape of those women, many felt those derrières were just a bit too big.
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August 12, 2011
Americans Want the ‘Pippa Middleton Butt Lift’
After stealing the show at sister Kate Middleton’s royal wedding, buzz still surrounds a certain asset of younger sister Pippa Middleton, reports the Telegraph.
According to Miami-based plastic surgeon Dr. Constantino Mendieta, the 27-year-old has inspired requests for the “Pippa Butt Lift.”
“Once the breast implants reigned supreme, now it is the buttocks that are considered a woman’s best asset,” Dr. Mendieta told The Times.
“The latest craze here in the U.S. and all over the world is to get the Pippa Butt lift.”
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August 11, 2011
A Brazilian Butt Lift for a Rounder Rear End
Ah, the plight of modern woman: excess fat where you don’t want it and not enough volume where do want it on your body. For many years, women have asked, “Why can’t you take this and move it here?” referencing belly fat to the breast or buttock region. Now you can. Using the fat transfer procedure, many revolutionary techniques have emerged to better hide potential scarring and ensure better grafting results to the derriere.
For quite some time, the focus has been on breast augmentation but now attention has moved down south… and behind to the buttocks. Traditional buttock augmentation has been performed with an implant, not dissimilar to a breast implant, but this procedure was fraught with complications post-procedure. As recently seen on The Doctors, a new technique founded by Dr. Constantino Mendieta, The Miami Thong Lift offers patients a fuller and rounder buttock with little or no scarring.
One of the key points Dr. Mendieta makes is to have a successful Brazilian Butt Lift, you must have an excess of fat to move to the buttocks. In some cases, he will send his patients to “Booty Camp,” a diet in which the patient is to gain approximately 20 lbs so there is excess fat to remove and transfer.
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August 3, 2011
Brazilian Butt Lift Expert Dr. Constantino G. Mendieta Authors New Medical Book, The Art of Gluteal Sculpting
Dr. Constantino G. Mendieta, world-renowned butt enhancement expert, authors new medical book, “The Art of Gluteal Sculpting.” This book provides clinical information for surgeons who perform buttocks augmentation. The Art of Gluteal Sculpting features illustrative, comprehensive chapters, case examples, and step-by-step techniques.
Miami, FL (PRWEB) August 03, 2011
Dr. Constantino G. Mendieta, the insightful, world-renowned Miami butt enhancement expert, can now add The Art of Gluteal Sculpting to his roster of achievements. As author of this new medical book, which is said to be “the definitive work” on butt enhancement, Dr. Mendieta provides surgeons with the necessary, comprehensive, clinical information they need to meet their patient demands.
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August 1, 2011
Plastic Surgery 2.0: What’s promising in non-surgical face and body fixes
There’s an arsenal of new non-surgical fixes, procedures and treatments that can help someone regain some lost contours and refine skin texture, with minimal downtime and less expense than traditional plastic surgery.
Dr. Alexander Rivkin is a Yale-trained cosmetic surgeon based in Los Angeles. His practice is focused exclusively on non surgical aesthetic treatments and he regularly trains other doctors on injectables and other skin rejuvenating methods.
Dr. Rivkin is also Monsters and Critics go-to expert for all questions pertaining to facial plastic surgery and has commented on major news stories involving celebrity face-work as well as sharing his expert opinion on various procedures.
At his offices inside Westside Aesthetics, Dr. Rivkin and his staff employ a variety of the latest nonsurgical cosmetic procedures.
Monsters and Critics asked Dr. Rivkin about some of the latest procedures available.
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July 29, 2011
Dr. Aaron Rollins, of Sono Bello, is featured in Good Morning America’s segment on Gynecomastia
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Pippa Middleton’s Rear Is ‘Queen of the Booty’ in Plastic Surgery Circles
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f you want a perfect rearview, apparently you need to look across the pond.So-called British “commoner” Pippa Middleton has sparked a wave of surgery requests ever since she appeared in a form-fitting Alexander McQueen gown as maid-of-honor to big sister Kate (now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge’s) marriage to Prince William in April.In particular, it was that back view of Pippa carefully carrying her older sister’s nine-foot-long train into the church that captivated plastic surgery lovers.
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July 28, 2011
When Rehab Is a Revolving Door
The death of Amy Winehouse has left many people asking why she didn’t get more help for the fierce addictions that plagued her short and troubled life. She did in fact say “yes, yes, yes” to drug rehabilitation on numerous occasions. Unfortunately, rehab proved to be a revolving door that never led the 27-year-old singer to the right place.
Winehouse was certainly not alone in her high-profile on-again, off-again battle against long-term substance abuse. From Lindsay Lohan to Robert Downey, Jr., it seems that Hollywood types are constantly checking in and out of treatment centers. But requiring multiple attempts to beat an addiction is not just a star phenomenon — it happens to many ordinary addicts too.
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