Knee injury causes decrease in lubrication, has implications for arthritis
...ily affects people later in life, and that putting weight on an injured knee can result in increased friction and cause cartilage damage. But it is not known how changes in lubrication can positively or negatively impact cartilage damage. "If you injure a joint, or have been injured in the past, it would be...Diabetes knowledge has little effect on improving outcomes
... improved blood sugar control, cholesterol levels, weight management or mortality rates. While education may be important, the researchers said that there are likely other health care delivery issues that must be addressed to reduce the risks of diabetic patients dying of heart disease, the main cause of de...Northwestern Memorial researchers aim to find answer to halting the progression of fatty liver
...ng to offer patients except to advise them to lose weight and change their diet, so many of these patients a...ink alcohol. It has also been connected with rapid weight loss, or in women taking hormones."Clinical studies and basic research on NAFLD are still in their ...OHSU researchers uncover cause, possible treatment for abdominal fat in postmenopausal women
...ociated disorders. For women, a sudden increase in weight often occurs following menopause. This not only raises obesity-related health concerns. The weight gain also can be an emotionally difficult occurrence for aging women." To conduct this research proj...Perceptions of weight important risk factor for suicidal behavior in adolescents
CHICAGO How adolescents perceive their body weight may be more important than their actual weight in terms of increased likelihood of suicidal thoughts and attempts, according to a study in the June...Housing subsidies may help prevent children's undernutrition
... receive public housing rent subsidies had greater weight for age, an indicator of better nutrition, than ch...usetts, Minnesota and Washington, D.C. The child's weight was recorded at the time of the interview, which collected data including information on the family,...African-Americans more prone to higher heart weight than whites, study shows
...7, 2005 Adult African-Americans have higher heart weight a condition that can lead to serious heart diseas...ng heart mass. In previous studies comparing heart weight in African-Americans and whites, there was no adequate adjustment for body composition such as lean ......vestigation into the effectiveness of soy in adult weight loss. Meal replacements, including powders, drinks and energy bars, are popular weight loss tools. Anderson tested two commercially available meal replacements one soy-based, and one mil...TV confuses children about which foods are healthy, new study finds
..., her reasoning reflected the food's potential for weight loss rather than its utility for helping her grow up strong and healthy." The reasoning that a food does not contain fat or has fewer calories may appear to be nutritional in nature, Harrison said, "but a lack of fat and calories will not in itself h...Discovery may prevent life-threatening wasting disease in patients with chronic kidney disease
... that is produced by fat cells and plays a role in weight regulation, may be the cause. Leptin signals through the hypothalamic melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4-R) pathway in the brain, and blocking this pathway may be an important avenue for treatment, they report. The study was conducted in mice. "Understandi...Exercise, weight control may help reduce risk of breast cancer, Meharry-Vanderbilt study suggests
Women who exercise more and keep their weight under control may dramatically reduce their odds o...xercise per day. "Given the substantial level of weight gain in industrialized countries in the last two decades," said lead author Alecia S. Malin, DrPH, C...Key to breast cancer prevention could hang in the balance
...ong evidence that more exercise together with less weight gain affect considerably the likelihood of contrac...kers & Prevention. "Given the substantial level of weight gain in industrialized countries in the last two decades," said lead author Alecia S. Malin, DrPH, C...Research linking obesity and asthma shows weight reduction may provide therapy for asthma sufferers
... therapies targeting abdominal fat tissue, such as weight loss, may provide a new approach to treat asthma. ...ts' eotaxin levels were significantly reduced with weight loss. This finding is important because it may provide physicians and patients with a new approach t...Lowering resistance to insulin may delay or prevent onset of type 2 diabetes
...nsulin resistance," Buchanan says. "Theoretically, weight loss and some other drugs may be able to do the sa...for type 2 diabetes should exercise and keep their weight as close to normal as possible. They should have regular check-ups to see if their glucose levels ar...Nutritious frozen foods can play role in weight-loss programs
... Erdman, studied how two diet regimens resulted in weight loss in overweight and obese men. Their findings w...ects who followed the frozen-entree diet lost more weight (7.4 kg or 16.3 pounds) compared with the subjects who made their own meals following the food pyram...Diabetic retinopathy occurs in pre-diabetes
...ournal of Medicine: Losing 5 to 7 percent of body weight through diet and a modest, consistent increase in physical activity (e.g., walking 5 days a week 30 minutes a day) lowered the incidence of type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. Treatment with metformin, an oral drug commonly used to treat diabetes, reduce...Obese women with breast cancer may be undertreated
...men who are 20 to 25 percent over their ideal body weight have a 1.3 times greater risk of a recurrence of b...nt of overweight women and nine percent of healthy weight women. The practices varied widely in their use of first-cycle dose reductions in their overweight a...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...ssues such as the impact of activity on children's weight and cardiovascular health. The hope is that the evidence-based recommendations will be taken to heart by children, parents and schools as well as an elite list of organizations that impact children's health, including the American Academy of P...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...ssues such as the impact of activity on children's weight and cardiovascular health. The hope is that the evidence-based recommendations will be taken to heart by children, parents and schools as well as an elite list of organizations that impact children's health, including the American Academy of Pediatri......e groups: underweight (BMI less than 20.0), normal weight (BMI = 20.0-24.9), overweight (BMI = 25.0-29.9), obese (BMI = 30-39.9), and severely obese (BMI = 40.0 or more). No significant difference was found between the MICU length of stay, hospital length of stay, need for mechanical ventilation or number ...