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Cosmetic surgery is no longer the taboo cause that it once was. People all over the world now see it as a legitimate elective surgery procedure that can bring self confidence to people who might not already have it.

The truth is, most people have a part of their body that they would like to change, but it might bother people more than others, or that undesirable feature might be something easily fixed such as ears sticking out. There are a range of procedures out there to help people with these issues and give people new confidence with their improved appearance.

The key word in that last sentence is ‘improved’. No-one should undergo a cosmetic surgery procedure hoping for the perfect look. Doctors will always point out that no surgery will provide someone with the perfect image and so realistic expectations are paramount to a successful cosmetic surgery procedure. Those who are disappointed with the end results are likely to feel so because of their expectations beforehand.

So if you are certain you want surgery and your expectations are realistic, you can embark on the surgery of your choice.

For years, there has been a huge amount of very interesting debate about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, and lycopene in particular. The Mediterranean diet which is based on high consumption of fruit and vegetables, with olive oil replacing butter on bread and in cooking, gives people a higher lycopene intake. Lycopene comes from the red pigment in tomatoes and seems to protect people against heart disease, cancer, and a whole variety of other chronic and ultimately fatal, diseases.

Greeks, Italians and Spanish people have been smoking and drinking more than anyone else for centuries, but still live longer than the rest of us – because of lycopene.
The problem for scientists until now, has been finding a way of ensuring that lycopene is reliably absorbed. Now a team of Cambridge scientists have come up with Ateronon, a new lycopene compound which can be taken as a one pill a day treatment, which instantly raises blood lycopene to the optimum level.

The first data on this new wonder treatment were presented at the World congress on heart disease in Toronto last year (2008), http://www.cardiologyonline.com/wchd08/advance_program.htm

The study ATERONON: FIRST CLINICALLY PROVEN ANTI-ATHEROGENIC ANTIOXIDANT
makes interesting reading. It claims to have completed eliminated the low density lipoprotein oxidation that leads to the build up of atherosclerosis.

Another study by ATERONON, CHLAMYDIA INFECTION IN CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOLOGY: SEQUEL II from the same Ateronon inventors, showed how chlamydia pneumoniae, a bacterial infection, seems to be involved in the development of clogged arteries. People with the condition always seem to have the bacteria in their bodies. Cambridge Theranostics, the team who have invented Ateronon, has also developed a blood test for the antibodies to chlamydia pneumoniae. This tells you whether active atherosclerosis is going on, or whether the tomato pill is effectively damping down the disease process.

It is a simple, but clever way of finding out how well Ateronon is doing. There is a lot of interest in Ateronon from researchers investigating heart and circulatory disease, and projects have just got underway at Harvard medical school in America and Cambridge university in Britain, to monitor the future health of sick people taking Ateronon long term.