Cost savings begin by preventing disease by eliminating smoking, and encouraging exercise and weight reduction.
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Commonly known and practiced recommendations to reduce gout attacks have included moderation in alcohol consumption, weight reduction, and decreasing high-purine foods from the diet.
Obese and overweight patients with mild to moderate hypertriglyceridemia be treated with lifestyle therapy, including dietary counseling, and physical-activity programs to achieve weight reduction.
That prompts two immediate questions: how much will such a weight reduction add to prices, and will hard-won gains in vehicle safety be sacrificed in the process?
"There is good evidence for the efficacy of Orlistat (Alli) in weight reduction but it should not be used as the sole element of weight management, " says Dr Colin Cable of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, who reviewed the products.
Other than that, we just wish the final keyboard dock will somehow get a slight weight reduction: for the screen size, 1.88 pounds isn't too bad for the tablet alone, but together with the heavy keyboard, the Q702 could become a nightmare for regular travelers.
Women are punished for any weight gain with a reduction in salary.
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The goal is to accelerate development of prototypes and put them into production by the end of next year, with a reduction in weight of up to 40%.
The panel is built using Samsung's existing manufacturing processes, only instead of using a glass substrate for the TFT it uses resin, which results in a tiny reduction in thickness (fro 0.5mm to 0.44mm), but a huge reduction in weight from 130g to just 28g, excluding backlights.
Every 10% reduction in car weight results in a 6% to 8% decrease in gasoline consumption.
Given today's materials and know-how, automotive engineers reckon a 10% reduction in vehicle weight yields a 6% improvement in efficiency.
This could lead to a significant reduction in the weight of tablet computers, which right now are a lot heavier than similar sized e-readers that lack glass in their screens.
Refinements over the DBS the Bond car in the last two movies, incidentally include a 25% increase in torsional rigidity, says the company, and about a 150-pound reduction in curb weight, which comes in around 3, 850 pounds.
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This reduction in size and weight would lower overall wind development costs, resulting in a lower overall delivered cost of electricity.
The editorial, by Zhaoping Li and David Heber of the Center for Human Nutrition at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, urged clinicians to focus on "fat reduction rather than simply weight loss" in treating patients with obesity.
This means that batteries could be smaller with the resulting reduction in electric vehicle cost and weight.
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That's because obesity leads to so many different diseases--diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, mental disease--that it's hard to separate out the reasons for the reduction in costs once the employee loses weight.
Sony says the revised models are less than half the size and weight of the original PS3 launched in 2006, and a 20-25% reduction on the previous models.
Similarly, Lexmark managed to reduce the weight of its packaging for computer printers by 26%, leading to a dramatic reduction in the energy used in its product manufacturing.
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