Health & Fitness
Underweight people at as high risk of dying as obese people, new study finds
Being underweight puts people at highest risk of dying, just as obesity does, new research has found. The connection between being underweight and the higher risk of dying is true for both adults and fetuses. This is so even when factors such as smoking, alcohol use or lung disease are considered, or adults with a […]
Veravia Provides Parents With Tips For Balancing Health And A New Baby
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) March 26, 2014 A recent 7,000-person study conducted by BabyCenter.com[1] found that 61% of new mothers expect to return to their pre-pregnancy weight before their childs first birthday. For many parents, finding the time and energy to maintain a healthy lifestyle after the birth of a baby can be a daunting […]
Gen X obesity a major problem for healthcare, workforce: Australian study
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have confirmed that if current trends continue, Australia’s Generation X will overtake Baby Boomers for poor health, including rates of obesity and diabetes, which could have huge implications for healthcare and the workforce. In a paper published in the online journal PLOS ONE, University of Adelaide researchers compared the […]
Everything You Need to Know About Tabata Training
With the popularity and notoriety of the “Tabata study” published by Dr. Izumi Tabata and colleagues in 1996, there is considerable confusion and disagreement in the fitness industry about this style of training. The What In the researcher by Tabata, et al., they used a protocol that consisted of seven to […]
Brain degeneration in Huntington’s disease caused by amino acid deficiency
Working with genetically engineered mice, Johns Hopkins neuroscientists report they have identified what they believe is the cause of the vast disintegration of a part of the brain called the corpus striatum in rodents and people with Huntington’s disease: loss of the ability to make the amino acid cysteine. They also found that disease progression […]
Building to take note of individual human thermal comfort: Women feel the cold more than men
Because people in developed countries spend about 90% of their time indoors, their sense of warmth becomes one key comfort factor for interior spaces. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new method for assessing the individual thermal comfort experienced by different user groups. The design of energy efficient buildings — such as […]
Exercise training improves health outcomes of women with heart disease more than of men
In the largest study to ever investigate the effects of exercise training in patients with heart failure, exercise training reduced the risk for subsequent all-cause mortality or all-cause hospitalization in women by 26 percent, compared with 10 percent in men. While a causal relationship has previously been observed in clinical practice between improved health outcomes […]
Gut metabolism changes — not stomach size — linked to success of vertical sleeve gastrectomy
It’s not the size of the stomach that causes weight loss after a specific type of bariatric surgery, but rather a change in the gut metabolism, say researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC), the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The scientists, publishing their results in the March 26, […]
Medical marijuana may ease some MS; Little evidence for other complementary or alternative therapies
A new guideline from the American Academy of Neurology suggests that there is little evidence that most complementary or alternative medicine therapies (CAM) treat the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS). However, the guideline states the CAM therapies oral cannabis, or medical marijuana pills, and oral medical marijuana spray may ease patients’ reported symptoms of spasticity, […]
Lighten Up With These Spring Salads
Spring is finally here! If you’re like most people, as happy as you are to welcome the warm sun, you’ve been hibernating this winter and now feel the pressure to get in shape for bikini season! To make the task of getting lighter, leaner and more fit less daunting, we recommend starting by […]