ACP guidelines to treat obesity cover diet, exercise, drugs and surgery
... American College of Physicians recommend diet and exercise for everyone and drugs and surgery only for obese ...ot able to achieve weight-loss goals with diet and exercise alone. The guidelines, "Pharmacologic and Surgical Management of Obesity in Primary Care: A Clinical...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 5, 2005
...idelines for obesity management recommend diet and exercise for everyone and drugs and surgery only for obese ...ot able to achieve weight-loss goals with diet and exercise alone (Clinical Guidelines, p. 525). ACP guidelines apply to patients with body mass indices (BMIs) ...Exercise, stress management show physiological benefits for heart patients
..., N.C. -- Behavior modification techniques such as exercise and stress management can not only reduce the leve...al Institutes of Health. "Our results suggest that exercise and stress management training offer considerable promise for patients with heart disease by not onl...Patients with heart disease can lower cardiovascular risk factors with exercise, stress management
Aerobic exercise and stress management training can reduce levels o...t of two behavioral intervention programs, aerobic exercise and stress management training, with routine medical care on psychosocial functioning and select mar...US service academies to collaborate with UNC, Andrews Air Force Base, Duke in knee injury study
... Padua, assistant professor in UNC's department of exercise and sport science, designed and supervises the phy...ool of Medicine; Kevin M. Guskiewicz, professor of exercise and sport science in the College of Arts and Sciences; Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, research professor of...Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
... activity and abstaining from caffeine, alcohol or exercise for several hours before bed. Insomnia, which includes trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, frequent night-time waking and early waking, affects more than 40 percent of adults over age 50 and half of adults over age 70, compared to 30 perc...Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
...r longer periods of time," says Dr. Bernard Gutin, exercise physiologist at the Medical College of Georgia and...dered obese. " (T)hese data suggest that general exercise recommendations for adolescents should encourage vigorous physical activity," study authors write. H...Dr. Gutin selected as Fulbright Senior Specialist
...a growing childhood obesity problem. Dr. Gutin, an exercise physiologist at MCG's Georgia Prevention Institute, left April 1 for Spain to spend six weeks helping health care providers at six public universities develop intervention strategies. Dr. Louis Moreno, pediatrician at the University of Zaragoza, is c...Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
... To provide a clearer picture of the benefits of exercise for even elderly arthritis patients, the researche...e if all the participants had regularly engaged in exercise or physical activity. According to their calculations, the functional deterioration could have been...Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls
... eating high fat foods, binge eating or infrequent exercise were not as much linked to predicting future obesi...intake of high-fat foods, binge eating and lack of exercise did not predict the onset of obesity, possibly because people tend not to report these behaviors ve...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
Moderate levels of exercise may not be enough to control mild hypertension in ...estion the effectiveness of national guidelines on exercise for lowering blood pressure in older people. Current guidelines from the American College of Sport...Charter activation brings space dimension to European emergency exercise
...ent around which a major European civil protection exercise is planned. Just as in a real emergency, the Inter...oned as well as seriously burned The EURATECH 2005 exercise is occurring between 10 and 14 April at the town of Portes-ls-Valence in the French department of Dr...Too much water may be as dangerous as too little during long-distance athletic events
...is as simple as weighing yourself before and after exercise and comparing that number to the amount of fluid you consumed throughout. "All serious distance athletes should find out what their rate of fluid loss is and individualize their fluid intake prior to a distance event," Dr. Levine said. "It's also g...University of Chicago receives grant to study connections between religious beliefs and health
...ed a battery of questions related to their health, exercise habits and emotions, as well as church attendance and religiosity. For that study, the researchers began a series of day-long interviews and medical tests that began in 2002 and will continue through 2006. The study includes 230 African Americans, ...Exercise variety - not intensity - appears to reduce some Alzheimer's disease risk
... not a direct cause and effect, between variety of exercise and reduced dementia risk -- suggest that particip...owing, raking, gardening, hiking, jogging, biking, exercise cycling, dancing, aerobics, bowling, golfing, general exercise and swimming. The researchers then c...Special physical therapy technique successful for chronic back pain
...athing techniques. Patients were also given a home exercise program. Of the 102 people, 92 had significant improvement in their pain and were able to return fully to their daily activities. For 85 percent, the improvement was noted after three weeks of treatment. After an average of almost two years, the pain...Mesotherapy not proven as a safe alternative to liposuction
...dietary modification, hormone replacement therapy, exercise and nutritional supplements. No drug is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in mesotherapy. Although the practice of mesotherapy has been around for decades in Europe, it has only recently been introduced in the United State...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 19, 2005
...o pill. In both cases, the benefit of the diet and exercise program was larger than the benefit of the drug. Implanted Automatic Cardiac Defibrillators Are Cost Effective, but the Large Numbers Eligible for ICDs under Current Criteria Might Break Budgets (Article, p. 593; Editorial p. 664) Prim...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...r gaps in our understanding of the ways that diet, exercise and psychological therapies can help an individual...ors concluded that, when combined with dietary and exercise strategies, behavioural and cognitive behaviour therapy can help a person lose weight. "This work sh...How can we use a human rights approach to help improve the lives of those with mental disabilities?
...ties, say Yamin and Rosenthal, have the "rights to exercise agency in their own lives and to participate as members of their communities and societies, and these rights trump other concerns such as general attitudes toward risk containment in society." They argue that "the starting point of developing a human...