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Mayor Littlefield Undergoes Surgery
Mayor Ron Littlefield successfully underwent prostate surgery today and is currently recuperating. According to Mayor Littlefield�s physician, the procedure went as expected and the Mayor is doing well. In October, Mayor Littlefield announced that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and would be undergoing surgery. The diagnosis was made early and the prognosis is positive, according to the Mayor�s physician. The Mayor is expected to return to work after a recovery period. �I am humbled by the outpouring of support and words of encouragement from everyone. Your thoughts and prayers are appreciated. I am expecting a speedy recovery and am looking forward to returning to work as soon as possible.� said Mayor Littlefield. �I would also like to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving and, as we count our many blessing, please remember those among us who are less fortunate.
Brown feels heat as Libdems and Tories seek answer to West Lothian question
IT WAS always the unfinished business of devolution. Yesterday it returned to haunt Gordon Brown. First posed by Tam Dalyell 30 years ago, the West Lothian Question was left unanswered when Labour created the Scottish Parliament in 1999. Yesterday, the pressure on the Labour Prime Minister intensified as another senior politician demanded "English votes on English laws". Chris Huhne, a contender for the leadership of the Liberal Democrat Party, became the latest parliamentarian to join the increasing clamour for what many see as a rebalancing of the UK constitution. .
More political games with our health care
HB 849 is a bill that would require health insurance companies to pay for bariatric surgery for type II diabetics. I put this bill in at the request of doctors at the Portsmouth Hospital. There are different procedures, but bariatric surgery is basically stomach reduction. The bill, after being amended and undergoing about six subcommittee meetings, was carefully crafted to meet the needs of type II diabetics who cannot lose excess weight by traditional methods of dieting and exercise and need this type of surgery to stop the downward spiral of failing health. The testimony on this bill was absolutely compelling that in about 80 percent of those who met the criteria to be operated on, the surgery "cured" type II diabetes, high blood pressure, reduces heart attacks and a number of other expensive health care issues.
Blame obesity on genes, not fast food?
AT THE Obesity Society's scientific shindig in New Orleans, 2,000 experts in the field chowed down on gumbo, jambalaya and rich sauces while a band played, booze flowed and people danced around with their plates of pralines and pecan pie. But professor Barbara Hansen stuck mainly to the cold shrimp. She was the founding president of the Silver Spring, Md.-based society a quarter-century ago, and she clearly knows a thing or two about health and longevity and weight maintenance. You can tell just by looking at her. Dressed in cocktail-party black with a neat silver chignon, she looked much younger than her 65 years, not to mention quite slender. She may be the grand dame of obesity research, but don't mention her eating habits to her. Shrimp just happens to be her favorite food, and the idea that we control our destiny where obesity is concerned or what we eat has anything to do with obesity at all makes her so furious she'll come after you like one of the rhesus monkeys she studies as director of the Obesity, Diabetes and Aging Research Center at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.
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