Researcher Finds That Exercise Counters Negative Effects Of Weight Regain
With the obesity rate rising for American adults and children, health concerns such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease are a frequent reality. Although obesity itself is a major risk factor for disease, most of the threat may be associated with a cluster of risk factors called the metabolic syndrome (MetS). Losing weight can improve health and reduce these risk factors, but many people have difficulty keeping the weight off. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that exercising during weight regain can maintain improvements in metabolic health and disease risk. (read the full story)
Weight Loss Diets Significantly Reverse Arterial Clogging
A two-year study led by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) found that healthy, long-term weight loss diets can significantly reverse carotid (main brain artery) atherosclerosis, a direct risk factor for strokes and heart attacks. The study is one of the first to prove the potential of moderate weight loss as a strategy to reverse atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in overweight and mildly obese people. (read the full story)
Studies On Nutrients And Gene Expression Could Lead To Tailored Diets For Disease Prevention
Personal health recommendations and diets tailored to better prevent diseases may be in our future, just by focusing on genetics. Researchers at Kansas State University recently published an academic journal article discussing the potential for nutrigenomics, a field that studies the effects of food on gene expression. (read the full story)
Coffee Associated With Reduced Risk Of Hospitalization For Heart Rhythm Disturbances
Coffee drinkers may be less likely to be hospitalized for heart rhythm disturbances, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif. The researchers, who note the findings may be surprising because patients frequently report palpitations after drinking coffee, are presenting the study at the American Heart Association’s 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention in San Francisco on March 5, 2010. (read the full story)
Magnesium Supplement Helps Boost Brainpower
Neuroscientists at MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing show that increasing brain magnesium with a new compound enhanced learning abilities, working memory, and short- and long-term memory in rats. The dietary supplement also boosted older rats’ ability to perform a variety of learning tests. Magnesium, an essential element, is found in dark, leafy vegetables such as spinach and in some fruits. Those who get less than 400 milligrams daily are at risk for allergies, asthma, and heart disease, among other conditions. (continue reading)
Diet May Protect Against Gene Changes In Smokers
Leafy green vegetables, folate, and some multivitamins could serve as protective factors against lung cancer in current and former smokers, according to a study that is a first step in understanding a complex association. The study was supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The study appeared online Jan. 12, 2010, in Cancer Research. (continue reading)
Fast Food Menus With Calorie Information Lead To Lower Calorie Selections For Young Children
In a new study, the amount of calories selected by parents for their child’s hypothetical meal at McDonald’s restaurants were reduced by an average of 102 calories when the menus clearly showed the calories for each item. This is the first study to suggest that labeled menus may lead to significantly reduced calorie intake in fast food restaurant meals purchased for children. (continue reading)
Obesity Now Poses As Great A Threat To Quality Of Life As Smoking
As the US population becomes increasingly obese while smoking rates continue to decline, obesity has become an equal, if not greater, contributor to the burden of disease and shortening of healthy life in comparison to smoking. In an article published in the February 2010 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from Columbia University and The City College of New York calculate that the Quality-Adjusted Life Years lost due to obesity is now equal to, if not greater than, those lost due to smoking, both modifiable risk factors. (continue reading)
Negative Emotions Outweigh Intent To Exercise At Health Clubs
Time and time again, it has been documented that regular exercise has many health benefits including lowering risks associated with the comorbidities of obesity. With only 30% of Americans trying to lose weight meeting the National Institutes of Health exercise guidelines of 300 minutes/week, a study in the January/February 2010 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior explores the paradox that exists – an antidote for obesity and its comorbidities is exercise, but the majority of obese Americans do not exercise. Investigators explore and compare the barriers associated with regular exercise in health clubs between overweight and normal weight individuals. (more…)
Science Daily Research News Update 12-21-09
The 12-21-09 edition of the Science Daily Research News Update brings about a plethora of newly published health research. Read on to discover more on very concerning data that shows that the rate of Autism Disorders climb to 1% among 8-year-olds, Rush University Medical Center to open the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic, how saturated fats my anger the immune system and lead to Type II Diabetes, physicians over-prescribe antibiotics due to perceived parental pressure, 10 to 15 percent of women have maladaptive eating behaviors, health experts urge Santa to get off his sleigh and walk, a possible link between the immune system and COPD, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) helps prevent obesity in “at risk” teenage girls, a cup of coffee may make it harder for people to realize they are drunk, and much, much more. (more…)
Science Daily Research News Update 11-07-09
The early November edition of the Science Daily Research New Update series features a good variety of newly published Health Psychology related studies. Read on to learn more about: a new link between pregnant womens’ folate levels and ADHD, fish oil may not only help fight cardiovascular disease, but also stroke and rheumatoid arthritis, researchers regrow spinal nerves in animals, stressed-induced changes in the brain may lead to cocaine relapse, “no pain no gain” also applies to happiness, new evidence for a link between gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) and mental health disorders, migraine headache with aura doubles risk of stroke, and new explanations as to why antidepressants do not work for so many people. (more…)
Science Daily Research News Update 9-20-09
Busy week for the Science Daily Research News Update series. This week brings to you new research on how yoga contributes to mindful eating and a thin waistline, poor attention and memory associated with binge drinking, how our immune system may actually protect cancer cells early on, a new keyboard that will help persons with Autism communicate, how positive parenting can impact families for many generations, fascinating research that further decodes complex brain function, and much, much more. (more…)
Excellent Free Resource: Food Safety.gov
BMED Report readers learned about the excellent healthy eating website Nutrition.gov earlier this year. Now the federal government has launched another free science-based food website appropriately named FoodSafety.gov. FoodSafety.gov seeks to alert and inform the general public on important public health/food -related topics. Check the end of this report for a link to this website. (more…)
Science Daily Research News Update 09-05-09
Early September brings about a good week of Research News Updates from Science Daily. Read on to discover more on the myth busting results that suggest that today’s parents actually spend more time with their kids and may be doing a better job of parenting despite added stress, that persons with Autism may have visual processing difficulties that limit their ability to read body language, a huge meta-analysis reveals strengths and weaknesses of the Rorschach Inkblot Test, signs that traditional medicine needs to improve, or at least change, as Americans spend almost 34 billion out-of-pocket on Complementary And Alternative Medicine (CAM), an extensive systematic review of food reveals a big surprise that organic foods are no more nutrient that conventionally prepared ones, that smokeless tobacco may actually be safe, a possible revival of dream therapy, very interesting new data on brain reading and imaging, and much, much more. (more…)
The Scientist Research News Update 8-26-09
An admittedly unusual group of announcements and studies for this edition of The Scientist Research News Update – certainly not a dose of the typical psychology and public health related stories usually found in this series. Topics include that initial research that suggests antioxidants may actually help cancer cells survive, an announcement that the FDA halts the first ever stem cell study for spinal cord injury, a new way to create genetically modified bacteria that has implications for green technology, viruses that may be responsible for the shortages of honey bees, and the FDA investigates claims of significant side effects from obesity drugs. (more…)
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