The whole procedure is performed on an outpatient basis under local anesthesia.

The whole procedure is performed on an outpatient basis under local anesthesia. After the procedure, which usually takes about 15 to 30 minutes, patients are asked to begin walking, which helps stimulate blood vessels and alleviate any of the fear of walking they may have after the procedure.

Up to 25 percent of women, and 15 percent of men, will develop varicose veins. While there are many causes for the condition, varicose veins occur most frequently in the obese, in women after pregnancy, in the elderly and those who stand for long periods of time. There also appears to be a genetic component as well.

I tell families frankly that I don't see (chelation) as benign and it's really very scary to me,

I became a fitness fiend when I was about 17 or 18.

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.