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UW study: Prescribe more physical activity, shrink health care costs
Widespread medical efforts to prescribe more physical activity or more regularly check in on patients’ activity levels could significantly reduce the nation’s health care costs, according to a new study from the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. The findings, published this month in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, show that “sufficiently active” UW Medicine clinic patients who were surveyed between January 2018 and December 2020 were much less likely than inactive patients to visit a primary care doctor, go to an emergency room or be admitted to the hospital. Researchers went a step further in their analysis: If more adults in the United States were more physically…
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Prevalence of infectious diseases in preterm infants: a 2-year follow-up from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study
Study design and participants Features of JECS have been published comprehensively in terms of model and design elsewhere27,28,29. In brief, the JECS is a cohort study about birth, funded by the Japan government to reach all of Japan, and it includes many elements that influence the wellbeing and growth of children. The participants were enrolled in person in 15 Regional Centres throughout Japan between January 2011 and March 2014. The current study analyzed the set of data referenced by jecs-qa-20210401 (jecs-ta-20190930), which was available in April 2021. Data from 103,057 pregnancies until 3 years postnatal were included, from which we omitted records with inappropriate data for analysis, such as those with…
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Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking: Monty Python inspired laboratory based experimental study
Glenn A Gaesser, professor1, David C Poole, professor2, Siddhartha S Angadi, assistant professor3 1College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA 2Departments of Kinesiology and Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA 3Department of Kinesiology, School of Education and Human Development, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Correspondence to: G A Gaesser Glenn.gaesser{at}asu.edu Accepted 29 November 2022 Abstract Objective To compare the rate of energy expenditure of low efficiency walking with high efficiency walking. Design Laboratory based experimental study. Participants 13 healthy adults (six women, seven men) with no known gait disorder, mean (±standard deviation) age 34.2±16.1 years, height 174.2±12.6 cm, weight 78.2±22.5 kg, and body…
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Short Bursts of Physical Activity Could Prolong Your Life: Study
Dec. 9, 2022 – People who exert themselves for 1 or 2 minutes a few times daily while climbing stairs, walking to work, or doing routine tasks around the house can greatly reduce their risk of heart disease and cancer, says a new study published Thursday in Nature Medicine. University of Sydney researchers looked at data collected over 7 years from fitness trackers worn by about 25,000 people in the United Kingdom who did not exercise regularly. People who recorded three or so daily bouts of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity, or VILPA, had about a 50% reduced risk of death because of cardiovascular problems and about a 40% reduced risk of…
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Twins Study Shows Exercise Altering How Genes Behave | Health & Fitness
FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2022 (HealthDay News) — One might expect identical twins to have the same health outcomes. But it’s not just genetics that makes a notable difference in their weight and in how their genes behave, according to a new study. Exercise can alter genetic markers of metabolic disease — any of the diseases or disorders that disrupt normal metabolism. The study could help explain exercise’s key role in health. “The findings provide a molecular mechanism for the link between physical activity and metabolic disease,” explained study co-author Michael Skinner, a biologist at Washington State University, in Pullman. Scientists have previously found that a majority of identical twins develop…
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Potatoes ‘can be part of healthy diet,’ help with weight loss, study says
article FILE – Boiled California Gold potatoes are pictured with pesto, salt, and pepper. (Photo by Deb Lindsey For The Washington Post via Getty Images). BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Potatoes have developed a reputation for causing weight gain and a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. However, a recent study suggests that the versatile starch does not increase that risk and may actually help people lose weight. The study, published on Nov. 11 in the Journal of Medicinal Food, examined how a diet that included potatoes affects key health measures. Potatoes are a starchy food that our body breaks into glucose to use as energy. In addition to starch, they…
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‘Green’ Mediterranean diet burns fat even faster: study
Following the “green” Mediterranean diet helps burn fat three times faster than typical healthy eating, a new study shows. Research published in the BMC Medicine journal found that eating a plant-based Mediterranean diet allowed the body to burn a dangerous type of body fat at triple the rate compared to those on a generally “healthy” diet. Those who consumed the diet for 18 months saw their visceral fat levels reduced by 14%, compared to a control group who ate a standard healthy diet and only saw their fat levels reduced by just 4.5%. And a conventional Med diet performed half as well as its meat-free counterpart. Visceral fat is the kind…
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Consuming two tablespoons of honey balances blood sugar and lowers cholesterol, study finds
Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Consuming two tablespoons of honey can help balance blood sugar and improve cholesterol levels, according to a new study. Experts said replacing added sweeteners in the diet – such as sugar in tea – with honey can lower the risks of illnesses associated with eating too much sugar, like type 2 diabetes, heart disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Researchers at the University of Toronto analysed the results of 18 trials including more than 1,100 participants and found…
