Low Calorie Diet

A low calorie diet is based on eating nutritious and high-fiber but low calorie foods. This kind of diet is easier to follow because the high fiber content helps you full and less hungry. The low caloric value of the diet helps you lose weight.

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Low Carbohydrate Diet

Restriction of carbohydrates and inclusion of high protein and fat foods to whip up that healthy diet is the latest mantra. After all, almost all diet fads including the Atkins diet, South Beach diet, and the Zone diet work on this principle.

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Low Cholesterol Diet

While fat cannot be totally banished from the food we consume, it is possible to try and lower the bad cholesterol that causes hardening of arteries and heart disease. One good step would be to pot for mono-saturated fat (MUFA) over polyunsaturated Fat (PUFA) on examining food labels.

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Lung Biopsy

A Lung biopsy can be performed for various reasons, such as diagnosis of lumps that appears on chest x-rays, blood streaked sputum, wheezing and difficulty in breathing, severe pneumonia, and lung cancer and associated symptoms among others.

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Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the uncontrolled and abnormal growth of cells in the lung. It is strongly linked to smoking, and is the largest killer cancer of men in the United States. The main symptoms of lung cancer are shortness of breath, weight loss, and coughing (sometimes coughing blood).

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Lyme Disease

Lyme diseaseis a tick-borne disease is caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. Ticks carry the bacteria from deer and mice to humans, and the disease is more common in heavily wooded areas. The disease first manifests with a characteristic bull-eye shaped skin rash and fever, and if untreated can affect the heart, joints, and nervous system.

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