The Harley Medical Group has reported a 9% (year-on-year) rise in women aged 40+ years booking in for anti-aging surgery and non-surgical procedures as an ever-growing number of older women in the public eye get into relationships with men markedly their junior. The group has also noted a spike in the number of divorcees investing in cosmetic procedures to help them find new confidence.
Clinic staff have reported that many female patients aged 40+ are increasingly using divorce settlement money to fund cosmetic procedures. Liz Dale, director at The Harley Medical Group ( http://www.harleymedical.co.uk/ ), commented, ?We?ve all read about Sharon Stone, Janice Dickinson, and Sam Taylor-Wood embarking on affairs with younger men but it?s not just celebrities who are looking for new relationships in middle-age. Women aged 40-plus are increasingly citing embarking on a new relationship as a reason for undergoing rejuvenation treatments. We estimate that around 30% of our 40+ patients are divorcees.?
Mark Keenan the founder of the online divorce service, Divorce Online, commented: ?Women are increasingly factoring in extra money in their divorce settlements for cosmetic treatments. After a stressful, unhappy divorce period many want to overhaul their life and often having a relationship with a younger man helps them feel energised. We are seeing more and more women making the most of the extra money and time they have by, for example, going travelling, buying a car or getting some cosmetic work done ? our clients see it as part of the starting-over process.?
Liz Dale concluded, ?Women simply want to look as young as they feel ? inspired by older style icons like Stephanie Beecham and Susan Sarandon. It?s natural that young men will sit up and take note of these powerful, attractive women who aren?t afraid to get the most out of life.?
All patients considering cosmetic surgery should ensure that their surgeon has completed his/her training received his/her qualification as a Plastic Surgeon is registered on the GMC Specialist Register as a Plastic Surgeon and ensure that their first consultation is carried out by a medical professional. All consultations at The Harley Medical Group are carried out by a fully qualified Cosmetic Surgery Nurse Counsellor followed shortly thereafter by a fully qualified and registered Plastic Surgeons. The Harley Medical Group has been established for over 26 years and has 28 clinics in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
About The Harley Medical Group
The Harley Medical Group is the UK?s largest cosmetic surgery provider, performing more procedures and with more clinics than any other cosmetic surgery ( http://www.harleymedical.co.uk/ ) provider. It has been established for more than 26 years and is one of the most highly-regarded cosmetic surgery groups operating in the UK. It has treated more than 450,000 patients to date including popular procedures such as botox ( http://www.harleymedical.co.uk/non-surgical-solutions/line?and?wrinkle-treatments/ ), laser hair removal and breast enlargement ( http://www.harleymedical.co.uk/cosmetic-surgery-for-women/breast-surgery/breast-enlargement-implants-and-augmentation/ ).
The Harley Medical Group works tirelessly to maintain the highest standards in the industry for the benefit of all cosmetic surgery and non surgical patients. The Harley Medical Group is currently at the forefront of the campaign to ensure that the government continues to regulate the use of certain laser types used in cosmetic surgery and non surgical treatments so that patients are protected from rogue practitioners.
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Doing a season in France has got to be one of the best winter experiences available. The Alps offer some of the best landscapes on the planet it?s the combination of the French Alpine culture, great restaurants, wonderful aprs and first class skiing and snowboarding that can make a French season so distinctive.
Basecamp were the 1st organization to present ski and snowboard instructor courses in France. Their first courses were run in Meribel in 2002. The vacation resort gives so much to those that are looking for a winter experience of an eternity. Meribel is the center hub within the three valleys with direct access to Courchevel and Val Thorens making it one of the largest ski areas in the world. The holiday resort is 1400m above sea level and is a picturesque alpine village that hosts a great deal of stores, eateries, bars and discos delivering as the excellent place to chill out after a long day on the hill.
The resort was set up in 1936 with the hope that the area could present as an alternative winter recreation space to the resorts in Austria and Germany which are threatened by to the increasing strength of the Nazi regime. Since it?s birth, the resort has grown in size and attraction amongst British, Western along with other global travelers. Having spent 4-5 years skiing in the three Valleys, it?s easy to recommend it to anybody who wants to experience first class riding, amazing party all night atmosphere and true French way of life.
Having provided customers with great experiences in Meribel, Basecamp decided to expand operations to Val d?Isere in 2004. For anyone who has been to Val d?Isere you will need to explaining when it comes to explaining how epic Val and the surrounding area are. Val d?Isere is set amongst the Espace Killy ski area, which offers over 150 groomed pistes, two world class terrain parks and 90 lifts. Skiing in Val was born in 1930 with its first drag lift being opened on the slopes of the Solaise. Since 1930, the resort has expanded to create endless skiing and snowboarding opportunties and with direct access to the town from the slopes it?s no wonder why the resort is so popular. For anyone who has been fortunate enough to have spent time in Val d?Isere and Tignes it will easily be one of their favourite places in the world to ski and snowboard. It?s the long days on the mountains followed by incredible aprs at the famous Folie Douce (an open air bar on the slopes offering live music on a daily basis) that make you want to go back year after year! It is an amazing part of the world and somewhere that any aspiring skier or snowboarder should experience.
A season in Meribel or Val d?Isere is most definitely recommended! Basecamp offer a collection of ski and snowboard instructor and performance courses that supply as a ideal stepping stone into an exhilarating industry or merely a good possibility to considerably strengthen your traveling, and help make certain that you are competent to generate the most of your season and understand and build skills that can last you for a life long. There is no hesitation about it, a Level 1 and Level 2 instructor course is the most significant technique to attain a fast course into the business earning you internationally recognized qualifications, but if it?s all about performance riding then the performance courses will give you a solid platform to take your mountain ability up to the subsequent level.
Basecamp provides you the best Ski Instructor Course during this Gap year ski season in France.
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The curtain will rise Saturday on not one but a dozen performances at the Get Out Performing Arts Expo ? and they?re all free.
A variety of acts will perform on stage at the event, which runs 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mesa Arts Center. In the lineup are Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, Copperstar Repertory Company, Desert Dance Theatre and Arizona Opera. Patti Hannon, the actress who stars as ?Sister? in the ?Late Nite Catechism? comedies at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, will close the show as the funny nun.
Matt Lehrman, executive director of ShowUp.com, will emcee the program. Lehrman appears Saturday mornings on KTVK-TV (Channel 3).
Meanwhile, more performing arts companies ? including ASU Gammage, Arizona Jewish Theatre Company and San Tan Community Performing Arts ? will host booths in the lobby. There, you can buy tickets to upcoming shows and inquire about opportunities to get involved.
The expo, now in its 12th year, draws about 1,500 spectators each fall.
It coincides in 2011 with Mesa Arts Center?s season kick-off festival. Dubbed Guitars & Handlebars, that free event will feature live entertainment and car, motorcycle and art shows on the MAC campus.
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DETAILS >> 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St. Free. (480) 898-6475 or www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/expo
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Dieters may be more likely to slim down if they are referred to a commercial program such as Weight Watchers than if they battle the bulge with primary health care providers alone, a new study finds.
Overweight adults in Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom who were referred to Weight Watchers by a primary health care provider lost about twice as much weight over a year as dieters assigned to standard weight-loss care, according to the study, which was funded by Weight Watchers and published Sept. 8 in The Lancet.
"The greater weight loss in participants assigned to the commercial program was accompanied by greater reductions in waist circumference and fat mass than in participants assigned to standard care, which would be expected to lead to a reduction in the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease," the researchers said in a journal news release.
The study involved 772 overweight and obese adults who were randomly assigned to a year of diet care overseen by a primary care professional or to 12 months' free membership at a local Weight Watchers group.
Fifty-four percent of the standard-care dieters completed the 12-month study, compared to 61 percent of the Weight Watchers group.
Those who stuck with their standard diet lost an average of about 7 pounds, while those who attended Weight Watchers shed nearly 15 pounds on average. Also, the Weight Watchers participants were more than three times as likely to have dropped 5 percent or more of their body weight compared to the standard dieters, said the researchers.
A quarter of those randomly assigned to work with a primary care professional did lose 5 percent of their body weight, however -- a feat the researchers said confirmed the capability of primary care professionals to deliver the support and care needed for people to lose weight and keep it off during a year's time.
The researchers suggested that the structure of the commercial program -- including group support, weekly weighing, instruction about diet and physical activity, and motivation -- can be a clinically useful tool for battling overweight and obesity on a large scale. However, they acknowledged that a cost-benefit analysis and further research is needed to see if the gains (or, in this case, losses) could be maintained over time.
The researchers also said the findings suggested that overweight people were more likely to lose weight if they were referred to a commercial weight-loss program by a physician or another primary care provider than if they enrolled on their own.
"The similar weight losses achieved in Australia, Germany, and the U.K. implies that this commercial program, in partnership with primary care providers, is a robust intervention that is generalizable to other economically developed countries," the authors said in the news release.
"This kind of research is important so that we can identify clinically effective interventions to treat obesity," they added.
The study was conducted by Susan Jebb, head of Diet and Population Health at the Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research unit in Cambridge, England, and colleagues.
In an accompanying journal commentary, Dr. Kate Jolly and Dr. Paul Aveyard of the School of Health and Population Sciences at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, noted that obesity plays a leading role in about 2.8 million deaths a year. "Cost-effectiveness is likely to be a key factor as to whether such commercial programs become part of publicly funded health care," they wrote, "but the low cost of these programs . . . makes the case for incorporation intuitively appealing."
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Tree rings reveal forest fires from hundreds of years ago, says Texas A&M researcherPublic release date: 7-Sep-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Keith Randall keith-randall@tamu.edu 979-845-4644 Texas A&M University
COLLEGE STATION, Sept. 7, 2011 Like clues from an Agatha Christie mystery novel, trees can provide secrets about past events, and their rings are especially good at providing information about fires, some of which happened hundreds of years ago, according to studies from a Texas A&M University researcher.
With wildfires often in the news, Charles Lafon, associate professor of geography, has studied the fire history of forests throughout the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. He says trees can reveal key information about fire events, and some trees have a lot to tell one tree he examined endured 14 separate fires through its lifetime. He has published the research in Applied Vegetation Science and Physical Geography.
Lafon analyzed the tree rings of several pine species and found clear evidence of "scarring," a disfiguring of the wood that is the unmistakable sign of a previous fire. More examinations showed that trees in the area had sustained numerous fires over the past centuries.
"We found one tree that has had at least 14 fires, and we found many other trees that had endured multiple fires," he explains. By piecing together the fire-scar record from numerous trees, he and his students and collaborators learned that fires occurred frequently, about once every 2-10 years. He found some trees with scars dating back to the mid-1600s. So far, they have not discovered any trees old enough to provide a record of even earlier fires.
"The fires probably were ignited by a combination of humans and lightning strikes," Lafon adds.
"We know that Indians often set fires to clear areas, and from records we have learned that the early settlers of the area also set fires so they could clear lands for grazing and planting crops," he says. "Eventually, by the late 1800s and early 1900s, there was a tremendous amount of logging because America needed a lot of timber at that time. Devastating fires accompanied the logging, and those fires motivated the fire protection campaign of the 20th century.
"The point is, there have always been fires in forests. Sometimes fires are a good thing because they are nature's way of starting over and producing new growth, and sometimes they are destructive."
Lafon says that interestingly, fires showed a dramatic decrease after the 1930s.
"That's about the time the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies started to increase public awareness of forest fires, and they introduced the 'Smokey the Bear' campaign to tell people that they could prevent forest fires," he says. "And when a wildfire did occur, they suppressed it to halt its spread. Their efforts worked the trees show that it did because they are fewer fires in the last 50 to 70 years."
Lafon says tree rings can show if a fire occurred, and by taking several samples and cross-referencing them to other trees, it is possible to determine the precise year and even the time of year when a particular fire occurred. The trees, in turn, have adapted to fires.
"Many tree species that inhabit fire-prone areas have thick, protective bark," he points out. "Some trees depend on fires for their own reproduction. One such tree is the Table Mountain Pine. Through a feature called serotiny, its cones often will not open to release the seeds unless they are heated by a fire, ensuring that the new seedlings emerge at an optimal time to survive and grow right after a fire has cleared away the competing vegetation."
Likewise, the seeds of the Peters Mountain Mallow, a herbaceous plant related to cotton, require high temperatures, such as those produced by a fire, for germination, Lafon explains. Without fire, its reproductive efforts fail. In the early 1990s, the plant hovered on the brink of extinction before The Nature Conservancy began conducting controlled burns to restore it.
One of Lafon's graduate students used fire-scarred trees growing near the mallows to estimate how often fires burned the mallows in the past. The Nature Conservancy is using that research to guide their controlled burning program.
"The bottom line is that fire scars can tell us a lot about ecological changes," he notes. "We can tell when a fire occurred and often how severe that fire was, and we can learn how forests changed as fire frequency varied over time. The decline in fire frequency during the 20th century, for example, permitted tree species like red maple to encroach into pine and oak forests. Now the pines, oaks and other fire-associated species like the Peters Mountain mallow are declining in abundance, reducing the commercial value of the timber and diminishing the quality of wildlife habitat.
"Today, agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy and private landowners use controlled burning to try to restore the fire-associated vegetation. They are applying our fire history research to guide these efforts."
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The project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program, which is affiliated with the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture.
About Research at Texas A&M University: As one of the world's leading research institutions, Texas A&M is in the vanguard in making significant contributions to the storehouse of knowledge, including that of science and technology. Research conducted at Texas A&M represents an annual investment of more than $630 million, which ranks third nationally for universities without a medical school, and underwrites approximately 3,500 sponsored projects. That research creates new knowledge that provides basic, fundamental and applied contributions resulting in many cases in economic benefits to the state, nation and world.
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Tree rings reveal forest fires from hundreds of years ago, says Texas A&M researcherPublic release date: 7-Sep-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Keith Randall keith-randall@tamu.edu 979-845-4644 Texas A&M University
COLLEGE STATION, Sept. 7, 2011 Like clues from an Agatha Christie mystery novel, trees can provide secrets about past events, and their rings are especially good at providing information about fires, some of which happened hundreds of years ago, according to studies from a Texas A&M University researcher.
With wildfires often in the news, Charles Lafon, associate professor of geography, has studied the fire history of forests throughout the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. He says trees can reveal key information about fire events, and some trees have a lot to tell one tree he examined endured 14 separate fires through its lifetime. He has published the research in Applied Vegetation Science and Physical Geography.
Lafon analyzed the tree rings of several pine species and found clear evidence of "scarring," a disfiguring of the wood that is the unmistakable sign of a previous fire. More examinations showed that trees in the area had sustained numerous fires over the past centuries.
"We found one tree that has had at least 14 fires, and we found many other trees that had endured multiple fires," he explains. By piecing together the fire-scar record from numerous trees, he and his students and collaborators learned that fires occurred frequently, about once every 2-10 years. He found some trees with scars dating back to the mid-1600s. So far, they have not discovered any trees old enough to provide a record of even earlier fires.
"The fires probably were ignited by a combination of humans and lightning strikes," Lafon adds.
"We know that Indians often set fires to clear areas, and from records we have learned that the early settlers of the area also set fires so they could clear lands for grazing and planting crops," he says. "Eventually, by the late 1800s and early 1900s, there was a tremendous amount of logging because America needed a lot of timber at that time. Devastating fires accompanied the logging, and those fires motivated the fire protection campaign of the 20th century.
"The point is, there have always been fires in forests. Sometimes fires are a good thing because they are nature's way of starting over and producing new growth, and sometimes they are destructive."
Lafon says that interestingly, fires showed a dramatic decrease after the 1930s.
"That's about the time the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies started to increase public awareness of forest fires, and they introduced the 'Smokey the Bear' campaign to tell people that they could prevent forest fires," he says. "And when a wildfire did occur, they suppressed it to halt its spread. Their efforts worked the trees show that it did because they are fewer fires in the last 50 to 70 years."
Lafon says tree rings can show if a fire occurred, and by taking several samples and cross-referencing them to other trees, it is possible to determine the precise year and even the time of year when a particular fire occurred. The trees, in turn, have adapted to fires.
"Many tree species that inhabit fire-prone areas have thick, protective bark," he points out. "Some trees depend on fires for their own reproduction. One such tree is the Table Mountain Pine. Through a feature called serotiny, its cones often will not open to release the seeds unless they are heated by a fire, ensuring that the new seedlings emerge at an optimal time to survive and grow right after a fire has cleared away the competing vegetation."
Likewise, the seeds of the Peters Mountain Mallow, a herbaceous plant related to cotton, require high temperatures, such as those produced by a fire, for germination, Lafon explains. Without fire, its reproductive efforts fail. In the early 1990s, the plant hovered on the brink of extinction before The Nature Conservancy began conducting controlled burns to restore it.
One of Lafon's graduate students used fire-scarred trees growing near the mallows to estimate how often fires burned the mallows in the past. The Nature Conservancy is using that research to guide their controlled burning program.
"The bottom line is that fire scars can tell us a lot about ecological changes," he notes. "We can tell when a fire occurred and often how severe that fire was, and we can learn how forests changed as fire frequency varied over time. The decline in fire frequency during the 20th century, for example, permitted tree species like red maple to encroach into pine and oak forests. Now the pines, oaks and other fire-associated species like the Peters Mountain mallow are declining in abundance, reducing the commercial value of the timber and diminishing the quality of wildlife habitat.
"Today, agencies like the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy and private landowners use controlled burning to try to restore the fire-associated vegetation. They are applying our fire history research to guide these efforts."
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The project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program, which is affiliated with the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture.
About Research at Texas A&M University: As one of the world's leading research institutions, Texas A&M is in the vanguard in making significant contributions to the storehouse of knowledge, including that of science and technology. Research conducted at Texas A&M represents an annual investment of more than $630 million, which ranks third nationally for universities without a medical school, and underwrites approximately 3,500 sponsored projects. That research creates new knowledge that provides basic, fundamental and applied contributions resulting in many cases in economic benefits to the state, nation and world.
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