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There is no general rule as to the right age for having a plastic surgery. As a matter of fact, establishing how appropriate a given type of procedure is should be based on individual cases, looking at the patient’s unique body type and aging process. Obviously, there are some age tendencies for certain procedures. Facelifts typically are not performed on patients under 30, because mini-lifts or laser procedures might be suggested instead, however, this is not a rule. Otoplasty, on the other hand, is appropriate for all adults or even patients as young as 5 years old.

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Over-the-counter diet pills are becoming more and more popular these days. Americans are getting fatter, and clever business people are wondering how they can make some fast and easy money. Books, magazines and self-help tapes dealing with the subject of weight loss are present everywhere, and it seems that the public just can’t get enough. In all this madness, diet pills have become one of the most popular places to turn.

The majority of people that use diet pills have no idea about their dangers and their non-effectiveness. The diet pill industry emphasizes how efficient their products are by presenting many success stories. A typical success story goes more or less like this: “Susan stepped on the scale and almost screamed. She had gained 90 pounds since she gave birth to her baby. She knew she had to lose some weight, but had no idea where to start. She tried (here you put the name of some over-the-counter diet pill) and within several months, she was back to a perfect size 2 and felt better than ever before.”

Such “stories of success” do nothing except for giving people false hopes of fast weight loss. A nutritionist Coco Newton believes that “diet pills, similarly to any diet fads, are not a solution to the problem. As a matter of fact, diet pills can cause people to gain weight because they do nothing to change their food habits. Anyone who says they are a solution is wrong. People can become reliant on them, and at that point, have given the power to the pill.”

Newton also claims that diet pills “are not designed for individual use. This public approach does not take into account the biochemical needs of each person.”

No matter what your decision regarding over-the-counter diet pills may be the importance of checking with a doctor before you begin any weight-loss system is strongly advised.

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For a long time it has been thought that coffee and other caffeine-containing drinks are dehydrating and don’t count in your daily fluid intake. Actually, some go as far as recommending one cup of water for every cup of Joe you have. Most of us are aware that caffeine is a diuretic (it makes us want to urinate), but does it deprive us of our bodily fluids?

In his study, “Caffeine, Body Fluid-Electrolyte Balance, and Exercise Performance,” Lawrence E. Armstrong, a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Connecticut deals with the belief that caffeinated drinks rob us of our valuable fluids. By investigating the scientific research on the subject, he reaches the conclusion that although caffeine, similarly to water, is a mild diuresis (it increases excretion of urine), moderate caffeine consumption does not lead to a “fluid-electrolyte imbalance” that can influence health or exercise performance. What is more, we retain approximately the same amount of fluid after drinking a caffeinated drink as we do after drinking water.

Even more interesting for notorious coffee consumers is the discovery that those with caffeine tolerance have lower likelihood that a fluid electrolyte imbalance will appear. The more regular your caffeine habit, the more fluid your body is conditioned to retain.

Other discoveries support his claim. A minor study carried out at the University of Nebraska tested the body weight, urine output, and blood of 18 subjects after they drank caffeinated and non-caffeinated drinks. They established that there was “no significant differences in the effect of various combinations of beverages on hydration status of healthy adult males.” The Institute of Medicine expert panel on water and electrolyte intake claims that the diuretic effects of caffeine are temporary, and that coffee, tea, and colas can contribute to overall water intake.

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