Female Soccer Players Perform Best On A High-Fat Diet, UB Study Finds
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...t cancer took many forms, including nutritionaland diet therapeutics, mitigation of occupational hazards such as asbestos andan aggressive anti-tobacco program. Hitler's vegetarianism and abstinence fromalcohol and tobacco influenced preventive approaches, as did the increasingscarcity of supplies in a co...Semiconductor Plants May Be A Danger To The Health Of Employees
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...e sunlight and a daily multiplevitamin. The best diet to maintain bone mass is moderately high in protein, withplenty of fruits and vegetables. Men and women who perform weight-bearing exercise (walking, climbing stairs,moderate weight-lifting) three to five times a week generally have more bonemass th...Anti-Depressant Drug Shows Promise As Weight-Loss Treatment
... anaverage of 222 pounds. He chose a 1,600-calorie diet because it is just 500calories below what an average woman would eat and thus is considered safe andwell-tolerated. At the end of eight weeks, the 18 women who completed the study and took thedrug lost 6.21 percent of their body weight, compared with...Diet Can Reduce Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease
...Yu-Poth et al A comprehensive meta-analysis of 37 diet intervention studies shows thatprogressive reduction in dietary calories, saturated fat and cholesterol haspositive benefit in reducing serum lipids and lipoproteins and cardiovascularrisk without use of conventional cholesterol lowering drugs....Family Support A Factor In Cardiovascular Responses To Stress
... and stroke risks, people often tend tolook toward diet and exercise, the more physical risk factors," Light says. "Wecertainly think they may benefit if they also look toward the psychologicalfactors in their family life."...American Heart Association Media Advisory: Cholesterol Lowering Margarines
...bout 7-10 percent. They should be combined with a diet thatis low in saturated fat which comes from animal sources, such as butter, meatand milk and high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low fat dairy productsand lean meat. Additionally, for many people, medications such as thecholesterol-lowering d......ican Medical Association (JAMA) says that eating a diet high in fiber,specifically cereal fiber, can help ...lower levels of blood cholesterolprovided that the diet is low in saturated fat and cholesterol. The paper being published in JAMA looked at 68,782 women ov...Study links body image to athletes' fertility
...do not contradict earlier work that shows thatpoor diet and excessive exercise are directly related to men...s may exacerbate the effects of poor or inadequate diet andexcessive exercise." The Interdisciplinary Seed Grant Program of Penn State's College of...Soy foods reduce risk of coronary heart disease
...terol. Subjectswere fed a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet that doubled intake of soluble fibreand replaced m...ts. Compared to the low-fat control diet, the test diet significantly lowered totalcholesterol levels, LDL cholesterol and the ratios of good to bad cholest...Risk factors for women remain high one year after heart surgery
... behaviors such as weightcontrol, follow a low-fat diet and increase physical activity. Patients alsoneed ...sic lifestyle changes, such as initiatinga low-fat diet to reduce cholesterol, patients must know their numbers," saysAllen. "Know what your cholesterol lev...Moooooove over, chicken! Study shows lean red meat can play a role in low-fat diet
... levelson a comprehensive low-fat, low-cholesterol diet that included lean meat. Patients were randomly assigned to consume 80 percent of their meat intake fromlean red meats (beef, veal or pork) for five to seven days a week for ninemonths, or to eat lean white meats (fish or poultry) for the same length...Female hormones don't cause overeating and weight gain
...urned. There were no changes in food preferencesor diet composition either." She adds, "There was no shift in chocolate intake or in how much theyliked chocolate. No shift in their taste for sweet foods in general. No shift incarbohydrate preferences." The Penn State researcher will prese...Federal agencies report on nation's children
...rates are up. Most children andadolescents have a diet that is poor or needs improvement. In addition, 1... through 1996, most children and adolescents had a diet that was pooror needed improvement. Moreover, older children had poorer diets. For example,in 1996...Cholesterol-lowering drugs provide double protection against heart disease
... medications and a low-cholesteroldiet, and two by diet alone. The high cholesterol group saw their levels drop toan average of 197 mg/dl during the course of therapy. The researchers measured myocardial (heart) blood flow using a technique calledpositron emission tomography (PET). Readings were made wh...Children CATCH on to heart-health messages
...on intervention in grades 3 through 5 maintained a diet significantly lower intotal fat and saturated fat and continued to pursue more vigorous physicalactivity levels compared to the students in the control groups. These resultssuggest that schools can be an important place to help youth establish habits...New biological target identified for cholesterol-lowering drugs
...ed 'bad' component of total cholesterol -- through diet andexercise, CRP increased over time. "This drug appears to have an effect beyond lowering the bad cholesterol,"Ridker says. More research is needed to learn if the anti-inflammatory effectextends to other cholesterol-lowering drugs. All of the pat...Obesity drugs not a quick fix for achieving weight loss
... of diets, and most have lost weight. But when the diet ends, the weighttends to come back. And unlike som..., many have madeso much progress by changing their diet and increasing their physical activitythat they no longer are interested in obesity drugs." Maintai......their pills were more likelyto eat a heart-healthy diet and participated in a greater number of socialevents in the previous month. "We speculate that people who are actively engaged in pleasurable lifeactivities may have a stronger desire for good health and thus may be moremotivated to adhere to health-...