Too much water may be as dangerous as too little during long-distance athletic events
...ld be taken seriously by all competitors." People lose water and salts from their bodies at different rates during exercise, he said. Heat and humidity also play a role in the rate of this loss. Calculating fluid loss is as simple as weighing yourself before and after exercise and comparing that number t...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
... lost my grandmother to Alzheimer's disease, and I lose a little more of my mom to this thief of memories everyday. Because of that, I am deeply invested in the American Academy of Neurology's powerful work." Her advocacy has aimed to take the shame and stigma out of memory disorders. She began by working...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...oural and cognitive-behavioural strategies to help lose weight. Social, cultural and dietary factors have ...and psychological therapies can help an individual lose weight. The Cochrane Review Authors therefore looked at data from 36 trials that involved 3,495 adul...Breast cancer detector that uses electricity instead of X-rays under study
...en. "As women age, breasts become more fatty; they lose the fibrous and glandular tissue that are there for milk production," says Dr. Craft. Less-dense breasts appear darker in an X-ray image, making them easier for the radiologist to assess. "If this is a very innocuous study that can be applied to youn...All low-fat diets are not equal, Stanford study shows
...as participants were observed to be more likely to lose weight than to gain weight on both diets. The scientists also requested that no one change exercise habits, saying: "If you are a marathon runner, keep running marathons. But if you're a couch potato, we need you to stay a couch potato." Gardner, a ...Other highlights in the May 4 JNCI
... predict or detect cervical neoplasia, we must not lose sight of the need to increase screening adherence," the authors write. "Even the most perfect screening method will not detect disease in a woman who has not participated in the prevention process." Contact: Laura H. Marshall, Kaiser Permanente, Lau...Exercise in cold water may increase appetite, UF study finds
...e people's appetites, making it harder for them to lose extra pounds, a University of Florida study finds....ounts of jogging or cycling for people who want to lose weight. "It's possible that individuals who exercise in cooler water may have an exaggerated energ...New fat is needed to clear old fat from the system
...roblems. For now, he says that dieters who want to lose fat stored in peripheral tissues may find it useful to take in small amounts of dietary fats, such as fish oils, that might more effectively activate PPAR-alpha and fat burning pathways through the liver....New Medicare policy allows seniors access to Crystalens
...uses the crystalline lens to increasingly stiffen, lose flexibility and cloud, diminishing its focusing ability. Crystalens corrects vision at all distances and in most cases eliminates the need for glasses and contacts for everyday tasks. Its ability to focus at all distances frees most patients from...Soft drinks consumption may increase the risk of childhood obesity
...with type II diabetes mellitus at age 10 years may lose between 17 and 26 life-years to the disease." Although no single factor should be designated as the scapegoat for childhood obesity, decreasing soft drink consumption, especially in schools, can help reduce the risk. The commentary is "Are soft drin...Those at high-risk for skin cancer burnt by own behaviour
... professionals who educate people to quit smoking, lose weight and exercise more," says Dr. Wang. "It seems we are all teenagers inside, and believe we are invincible to the cumulative dangers of these activities." Immediately after diagnosis for melanoma, however, patients made significant changes to red...UCLA researchers find common gastrointestinal condition keeps patients up at night
...ows that sleep problems can cause a bed partner to lose sleep. Relationships, particularly intimate relationships, often suffer," Gelula added. Burning Desires Survey The survey questioned 1306 people with GERD in Europe (Germany, France, UK) and 602 in the US. Nearly half were undiagnosed. It addres...Infants with rare genetic disease saved by cord blood stem cells
...ant of stem cells, Krabbe infants rapidly begin to lose all cognitive and motor functions and die by the age of two, said the researchers. They are from Duke University Medical Center's Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program and The Clinical Center for the Study of Development & Learning at the Uni...Physiotherapists cure incontinence
...pounds the problem because they stop being active, lose fitness, get depressed, eat more and put on weight. We encourage them to improve their general fitness and control their weight with low impact activities such as cycling, power walking or swimming. "I also see men who have problems with bladder cont...Federal NIH office clears Ohio State research program
...his kind of research." Other research programs may lose as many as 60 to 70 percent of their animals during research. The rate of loss for Ohio State projects using this animal model never exceeds 2 percent, she said. "By sharing our techniques with other researchers around the globe, we can reduce the nu...Bones don't pay a price when fat is lost through exercise
Debunking the myth that exercising to lose excess body fat, unlike dieting alone, comes at a ...f bone mass, a problem commonly seen when patients lose weight with diet alone." Jan de Beur adds that while bone mass did not increase in this program, the...High cost of malpractice insurance threatens supply of ob/gyns, especially in some urban areas
...ement and Leadership Development. "We are going to lose some of the best and brightest young doctors who otherwise might enter this field, and we are going to face shortages in many areas of the country if something isn't done." The researchers compared the rates of births per fellow and junior fellow mem...Northwestern Memorial researchers aim to find answer to halting the progression of fatty liver
...nything to offer patients except to advise them to lose weight and change their diet, so many of these patients are ending up on liver transplant waiting lists. We need therapies that help keep people from reaching that point." In developed countries, the overall prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver ...Exercise, weight control may help reduce risk of breast cancer, Meharry-Vanderbilt study suggests
...le answers, or to respond based on their desire to lose weight and improve their eating habits." Extrapolation of the results for Westerners, Malin noted, should take into account the inherent differences in the relationship between BMI levels and disease risk that appear to exist between Western and Asia...Johns Hopkins team finds 'ancestral' hepatitis-C virus at the root of evolution in infections
...T cells, which fight infection, but it may need to lose the mutations that had protected it in someone else. Despite pressure to change, the virus is always is restoring its shape." The Hopkins findings, published in a pair of studies in the Journal of Experimental Medicine this week, are believed to be ...