Intensive exercise improves body's ability to process blood sugars
... Patients in the study did lose minimal amounts of weight (fat tissue weighs less than muscle tissue), demonstrating that weight alone is not necessarily a good marker for the risk of diabetes or heart disease. Not surprisingly,...Sky-is-the-limit challenges have strongest effect on the heart
...d and unfixed goals. Fixed challenges -- such as a weight lifting competition -- require a specific performa... ability. Examples of unfixed challenges include a weight lifting competition where participants earn more money as they lift more weight, a persuasive speaki...Maya children in U.S. more likely to be overweight and obese than whites or blacks
...rming number of the Maya-American children exhibit weight problems: nearly half are overweight and 42 percen...ody mass index (BMI), a widely accepted measure of weight for height, Bogins team found that Maya children in Guatemala have a BMI of 16.2 while Maya in the U...Social factors may affect survival in lung cancer patients
...y to perform physical activity and had experienced weight loss with their disease," said Blackstock, assistant professor of radiation oncology. Both of these factors are known to decrease survival.Also, African American patients were more likely to be unmarried, to be uninsured or rely on Medicaid, and hav...Mothers attitudes toward childrens eating linked to childrens obesity
...thers worried about childrens penchant for gaining weight might influence kids obesity more than previously ...SC and colleagues. A moms concern about her childs weight and her pressure on the child to eat are directly related to the childs total fat mass, according to...Restrained and unrestrained eating behaviors affect risk for adult-onset obesity
...een different aspects of eating behavior and adult weight gain, Hays et al. followed changes in weight and dietary habits over approximately 30 years in a group of women currently 55-65 years of age. The...Hormone therapy for prostate cancer causes weight gain and increased body fat
...Endocrinology and Metabolism reveals that unwanted weight gain, particularly increased fat body mass, is a common occurrence in these patients. "Most patients and their physicians are not aware of these important side effects," says lead author Matthew Smith, M.D., Ph.D., an MGH oncologist. "They assume t...Maternal feeding practices are linked to childhood obesity
...rls averaging 11 years old by obtaining height and weight measurements and determining their total fat mass ...childs sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status on weight was insignificant in comparison to that of maternal feeding practices. The authors conclude that hig...Physical activity is key to maintaining normal weight after weight loss
...he total free-living energy expenditures of normal weight women who had either maintained or gained weight over the year prior to the study. The most important factor that distinguished those who were succe...Study shows weight loss with an antidepressant medicine in combination with lifestyle intervention
...ricted diet, and exercise, resulted in significant weight loss in obese patients up to 24 weeks. Further, a...of the study showed that the average percentage of weight loss was maintained in patients who continued on this regimen for the total 48 weeks. The data were...Obesity growing threat to world health
... century-long trend of increased growth in height, weight and earlier puberty in children that has been asso... Medical School in South Australia, found emerging weight problems in both South Africa and Central Australia. They studied two related groups of children in...Enrol for successful weight loss
Xenical support programmes shown to double weight loss success and increase patient satisfaction Support programmes provided to patients taking the weight loss medication Xenical have been shown to significantly improve the levels of weight loss achieved ...Light-weight heparin has heavy-weight results in heart attack treatment
...with the blood-thinner enoxaparin a low molecular weight heparin plus a clot dissolver were significantly less likely to die or have repeat heart attacks within 30 days compared to patients who received unfractionated heparin (UFH), according to a Rapid Track article in todays Circulation: Journal of the ...Early promise of new treatment for type 2 diabetes
...mproved insulin sensitivity, b-cell function, body weight and free-fatty-acid levels during treatment could not have been predicted, and probably reflect the profound improvement of metabolic regulation occurring during treatment. In animals, GLP-1 has been demonstrated to stimulate b-cell growth. Therefore...Stringent regulation of traditional medicines is urgently needed
... been attending a particular Chinese herbalist for weight loss remedies. They found a high concentration of fenfluramine in tablets supplied to patients and also in the patients urine. After reports of an association with pulmonary hypertension, fenfluramine was withdrawn even as a prescription only medicin...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, March 19, 2002
...ven Californians A dietary supplement marketed for weight loss, LipoKinetix, apparently caused severe liver damage to seven people in Southern California. Three of the seven, who were all young (between ages 20 and 32) and healthy, were hospitalized; one was placed on the waiting list for a liver transplant...Key predictors of heart disease in women develop as early as adolescence
...suggest that preventive efforts should be aimed at weight control, says Tom Kimball, M.D., director of echocardiography at Cincinnati Childrens and senior author of the study. Echocardiography should be considered a screening tool in obese adolescent and young adult women to identify those at risk for card...Keeping patients in touch with their lives and their treatments
... older women suffered more from fatigue, anorexia, weight loss and mouth ulcers. Prof Leonard said: The touch screen has proved to be a rapid and accurate method for patients to self report the toxicity of their treatment, and their general state of health and well-being. It is quick, patient-friendly and ...Individually tailored health promotions can help working women, research shows
...e covered such important issues as healthy eating, weight control, physical activity, cancer screening and even stress management, which the women said they wanted to work on, Campbell said. After doing this combined intervention, we followed the original survey with two more surveys at six months and again...Waist circumference and body mass index predict body fat and disease risk
...I of 25 considered the cutoff point between normal weight and overweight, and >30 for obesity. In addition to body weights and waist circumferences, total, nonabdominal, and abdominal subcutaneous and visceral fat distributions were determined using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging. BMI and WC were...