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Are you tired of people making fun of you because of your weight? Do you lose breath while climbing stairs? Are you at a risk of having blood pressure or diabetes due to your weight? Does your doctor constantly tell you to lose weight? If your answer is yes to all these questions, then read on. Obesity is a disease which has spread its tentacles in almost all countries of the world. Sedentary lifestyle, processed foods and technological advancements have made man a lazy being and obesity has developed into a wide spread epidemic.

Jillian Michaels has been named in another class action lawsuit that claims her Triple Process Total Body Detox & Cleanse diet supplement contains a "lethal combination of toxic ingredients" that "could kill you." According to a complaint filed Aug. 5, 2010 in L.A. County Superior Court, the lead plaintiff -- a woman who identifies herself by the initials R.D. -- claims the herbs in Jillian's detox diet pill can cause ulcers, vomiting, dangerous laxative and diuretic effects, liver damage and death. CLAIMS OF FRAUD, R.D.

The United States has one of the world's most advanced but also most complicated health care systems, plagued by widespread waste and costs that have escalated as the US population ages, experts say. Venturing where others have failed, President Barack Obama is now proposing to spend US$634 billion on reforms aimed at expanding health care coverage among the nearly 46 million uninsured Americans. How he should do it - and whether it should be done at all - are likely to be the subject of fierce debate.

Few doctors even test patients for flu, and Tamiflu is not widely prescribed. But the news is sobering because the pill, known generically as oseltamivir, is one of the few weapons against influenza, which kills an estimated 36,000 people in the United States in an average year. It is also considered a key weapon against a potential pandemic of a new type of influenza, and this study suggests the virus can rapidly evade its effects. This season, nine children have died from influenza, most apparently healthy before they got infected, the CDC reports.