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The Garcinia Cambodia is a moderate sized tree belonging to the family of Guttiferae, which grows naturally in India, southern Indochina, Cambodia and the Philippines. Its leaves are dark and shiny, and its fruit is oval shaped, large, and covered with yellow or orange fleshy pericarp. The peoples of South India, because of its sour flavor, use it to flavor Curry, or use it in food preparation... read

At present, excess weight and obesity are issues for which a unique causative factor and a mechanism that supports them have not been clearly understood. For this reason the treatment of obesity is not based on a rational, but instead relies almost exclusively on a strictly empirical basis. In this case, help can be found in the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and in Homeopathic Medicine,... read

Does treating obesity also reduce the risk factors associated with the diseases resulting from it, such as myocardial infarction, stroke and atherosclerosis? Studies directed to answer this question confirmed the cause and effect relationship between severe obesity and cardiovascular risk, and thus the potential benefit that comes from the treatment of this condition. However, the relationship... read

Obesity is nowadays one of the major health emergencies in the world: in fact, abdominal obesity has reached epidemic proportions and its prevalence is steadily increasing. The phenomenon involves 1 billion and 200 thousand people worldwide, including over 115 million suffering from other diseases, such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, sleep apnea, and arthritis. It is... read