Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week articles from July 2002

Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week archives from July 2002

Large study shows strong link between body mass and breast cancer.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Data from the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II) show an increasing risk of breast cancer with increasing body fat...

Morbid obesity adversely affects respiratory mechanics during laparoscopy.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Obesity negatively impacts respiratory function during laparoscopy, especially affecting arterial PO[subscript]2 (PaO[subscript]2), according to a...

Study cites benefits of exercise for teens.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Overweight teens needn't develop Olympian-in-training exercise routines to improve their fitness and reduce their weight; exercise - even at moderate exertion - produces a wealth of health benefits,...

Carbohydrates improve diet quality.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Many fad diets are based on restricting carbohydrates while increasing protein and fat. A new survey from the USDA shows that diets high in carbohydrates are lower in calories and, generally, higher in...

Exercise does not improve heart function in obese adolescents.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Improving cardiovascular fitness and lowering the amount of body fat in obese adolescents did not improve left ventricular structure or function,...

Blood pressure medication not prescribed to best protect against stroke, heart attack.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A majority of physicians tell patients to take their antihypertensive medication at a time of day that may not adequately protect them against potentially dangerous surges in blood pressure. ...

Obesity severely impacts laparoscopy complication rates.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, staff medical writer - Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Florida report that obesity complicated laparoscopy and significantly increased the risk of adverse effects after...

Company launches new water + nutrients supplement.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A subsidiary of Baxter International, Inc., (BAX) launched Pulse, a line of water + nutrients supplements. Pulse products are the first dietary supplements of this type to be developed and marketed by...

Fewer than 15% of American kids eat recommended fruits and vegetables.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fewer than 15% of the 2 million American elementary school-age children eat the recommended five or more daily servings of fruits and vegetables. The dismal discovery from a new analysis of the...

Low vitamin C intake linked with stroke risk.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Low vitamin C concentration in the bloodstream may be a risk factor for stroke, especially among hypertensive and overweight men, Finnish researchers report in the June 2002 issue of Stroke: Journal of...

Breastfeeding associated with lower risk of childhood obesity.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Authors of a research letter in the June 8, 2002, of the Lancet conclude that breastfed infants could have a 30% reduced risk of childhood obesity compared with children who were given formula milk in...

More TV time means bigger waistline for children.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children who spend more total time watching television, including those who eat meals in front of the tube, are more likely to be overweight, suggests a study published in the June 2002 issue of the...

Pre-eclampsia linked with higher risk of preterm delivery.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Every 6 minutes, a woman dies of pre-eclampsia - nine women an hour, according to the Pre-eclampsia Foundation. The disorder, which is linked to hypertension and affects 3 million women a year...

Antismoking campaigns should focus on attitudes, lifestyles, activities.
July 6, 2002... 2002 JUL 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- To improve tobacco control efforts, physicians and public health professionals should apply tobacco industry marketing strategies that target actual and potential smokers according to their lifestyles,...

Weight cycling need not worsen body mass composition.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Repeated weight loss/gain cycles do not contribute to a less favorable body mass composition, according to results from the Monitoring Trends in...

High-fat meal raises blood's proinflammatory factors; vitamins E and C counter that response.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a series of studies designed to define the role of dietary macronutrients in the initiation of arterial inflammation that predisposes a person to atherosclerosis, University at Buffalo researchers...

Obesity not a risk factor for H. pylori infection.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori was not any greater in obese adults than in normal weight adults, according to work done in Greece. I. D....

Black and white children differ in triacylglycerol, VLDL, obesity associations.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The relationships of obesity to triacylglycerol and very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) levels differ between white children and black children,...

Nation's leading hospitals serving up fast food.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A trip to the hospital usually means either you or someone you know is in poor health and needs immediate medical attention. And when it's time to go home, most likely, your doctor will give you a...

FINRISK study confirms benefits of exercise, healthful diet, positive perception in avoiding obesity.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer ? Researchers in Finland say establishing a physically active lifestyle has lasting benefits in avoiding obesity, especially when combined with smoking...

Vital Living names Thomas G. Allison PhD to scientific advisory board.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vital Living, Inc., (VTLV) announced the appointment of Thomas G. Allison, PhD, to the company's scientific advisory board. Allison is an associate professor in medicine at Mayo Medical School and...

New data show fast and significant weight loss with Xenical sustained over time.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The weight loss medication Xenical helps patients achieve rapid and sustained weight loss according to the results of a new study designed to reflect real world usage of Xenical in clinical practice....

Whole grain diet improves insulin sensitivity.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that eating whole grain food lowers the risk of diabetes through a mechanism...

Martek announces nutritional product sales increase more than threefold.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Martek Biosciences Corp. (MATK) announced that for the quarter ended April 30, 2002, (2nd qtr FY 02) revenues of $11,423,000 were recognized, up from $4,013,000 for the 2nd Qtr FY 01, and for the 8...

NutraStar, Inc., announces the launch of SynBiotics.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NutraStar, Inc., (NTRA) has launched SynBiotics Formulas, three new probiotic dietary whole food supplements based upon proprietary stabilized rice bran derivatives to support gastrointestinal health....

Older patients are affected by insulin resistance syndrome based on fat distribution.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Lynn Yoffee, senior medical writer - Insulin resistance syndrome is predicted in the elderly not by increasing age but by obesity and inactivity and possibly a change in the anabolic hormone milieu,...

Study warns of eating meals in front of TV.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study shows that children who eat meals in front of the television spend more time watching TV - far more time than it takes them to eat their meals....

New research reveals need to pair calcium with phosphorus.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new research study published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition demonstrates that osteoporosis patients should receive their calcium in the form of calcium...

Alarming increase in children with type 2 diabetes is a wake-up call.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Lynn Yoffee, senior medical writer - The number of children who are developing a type of diabetes that normally occurs only in adults is accelerating at an alarming pace. And the results of this...

Patients at high risk should be screened to help prevent onset of disease.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Lynn Yoffee, senior medical writer - The term "pre-diabetes" has been officially adopted by the American Diabetes Association and the National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases...

Americans getting obese earlier, ethnic groups put on weight at different rates.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Overall, 26% of U.S. men and 28% of U.S. women already are obese by about age 36, according to a new University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill study of adult weight gain among different ethnic...

Insulin sensitizer has anti-inflammatory effect in diabetics.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A drug used widely as an insulin sensitizer appears also to have a significant anti-inflammatory effect in diabetics, a property that could make it useful in helping to prevent heart disease in these...

American Heart Association weighs in on fat substitutes.
July 13, 2002... 2002 JUL 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The jury is still out on whether fat substitutes provide a health benefit, because individuals who use them seldom lose weight, according to a new American Heart Association statement published in June...

Homocysteine not related to psychological traits in obese adults.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Homocysteine levels are elevated in obese adults but do not appear to be related to psychological characteristics, according to researchers in Italy....

Obese women face no greater risks during gynecologic laparoscopy.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Laparoscopic surgery has been considered more risky for obese than for normal-weight women. However, a study done in Korean women showed that obese...

High-carbohydrate diets net lower calorie levels.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Agricultural Research Service scientists have found that people whose diets are highest in carbohydrates actually eat fewer calories per day and are less likely to be obese than people who eat diets...

Variety, not restriction, makes a healthy diet.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fad diets that restrict the types of food we eat may actually jeopardize our overall health. Such weight-loss schemes are based on the erroneous notion that eating only a few specific foods can lead...

Loss in body fat mass reduces concentrations of molecules related to atherosclerosis.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Weight loss decreased the amount of soluble adhesion molecules, which are indicative of atherosclerosis, in obese women, say researchers in Japan....

Muscle fiber types related to obesity.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Percentage of type I muscle fibers is higher in lean women than in obese women, say U.S. researchers writing in the American Journal of Physiology -...

Physicians rank diabetes as higher risk than smoking.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physicians believe that having diabetes is the highest risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) - ranking diabetes higher than smoking, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol or obesity,...

Bush stresses physical fitness.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- President Bush urged Americans on June 20, 2002, to make themselves and their nation healthier through exercise, proper diet and regular checkups. "The evidence is clear: A healthier America is a...

Uncle Sam Cereal meets Glycemic Research Institute criteria.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Glycemic Research Institute in Washington, DC, announced that Uncle Sam Cereal, a product of Massachusetts based U.S. Mills, Inc., has been approved as low glycemic. The Seal of Approval from...

Blood pressure treatment also improves heart function.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Treating high blood pressure with medications not only lowers blood pressure but also makes the heart work better, according to one of the largest studies of its kind. The study appears in...

New pathway for treating kidney failure studied.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Medical College of Georgia (MCG) researcher is tracing the pathway that leads people with hypertension to kidney damage and possible kidney destruction. He's found a key vasodilator that is...

Breakfast is key to best diet.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Teen breakfast-skippers beware: You could lose out on an important nutritional contribution to your total daily food intake. Adolescents who eat breakfast are two to five times more likely than...

Cardiovascular benefits of long-term fruit and vegetable consumption shown.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Consumption of nutrients that are abundant in fruits and vegetables - such as antioxidants and folic acid - has been linked to a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, long-term...

Lean ground beef fortified with soybean phytosterols lowers cholesterol.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Development of long-term diets for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in young men includes the promotion of cholesterol-lowering foods that are familiar and palatable enough to ensure the...

Association between obesity and type 2 diabetes absent in Ugandan men.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Researchers in the U.S. noted that unlike the strong correlation between type 2 diabetes and obesity in developed countries, the two conditions were...

Californians' wallets, waistline paying the price of super-sizing.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Californians who order larger sizes for just a few pennies more when eating out are getting more calories than they bargain for, according to a new report issued by the National Alliance for Nutrition...

University of Ulster software gets healthy eating message across to kids.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Getting kids to eat healthily and learn about nutrition can be fun - thanks to a new interactive computer package produced by the University of Ulster. The CD ROM "Dish It Up" aims to promote...

Women with ovary disease may also have high risk for heart disease.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with polycystic ovaries, a common gynecologic disorder, develop stiff arteries that may increase their risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the...

11 ways to stop hunger.
July 20, 2002... 2002 JUL 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Sadkhin Complex (TSC), the nation's most successful privately-owned weight-loss-management complex, recognizes the difficult challenge that most Americans have in controlling hunger. Grigory...

Metabolic rate associated with gender, ethnicity in obese children.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Resting energy expenditure differed by sex and ethnic background, being lower in girls than in boys, and lower in African Americans compared with...

A healthy diet can reduce obesity and be good for your pocketbook.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Adopting a healthy diet to manage obesity in children need not cost more than continuing an unhealthful diet, say the authors of a report in the...

No evidence that housework as part of 'active lifestyle' is good for health.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A dose of heavy housework will meet new recommended targets for daily physical activity levels, but there is no evidence that it is good for health, finds research in the Journal of Epidemiology and...

More evidence for ghrelin's role in weight loss/gain cycles.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Researchers in the U.S. find that circulating ghrelin levels increase in response to dieting but decrease significantly after gastric bypass surgery,...

Ethnicity does not influence body size preference or tolerance.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Roxanne Nelson, staff medical writer - Even though obesity tends to be most prevalent among black and Hispanic women in the United States, it does not necessarily indicate that these groups have a...

Quality of life improvements provide motivation to maintain lower weight in obese men.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A new study from Finland shows that significant weight loss in obese men led to improvements in quality of life that enhanced adherence to dietary...

Obesity and smoking increase risk.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Extremely overweight people and smokers are more likely to report having asthma than are their thinner, nonsmoking counterparts, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society...

Research at University of Rochester indicates that vitamin E helps prevent prostate cancer.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists at the University of Rochester believe they have discovered important clues on how vitamin E helps prevent prostate cancer, the second-leading cause of death in men in the United States. ...

Atkins diets being studied.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Controlled carbohydrate nutritional practices are now more than ever being studied for efficacy and long-term safety as well as in connection with a variety of health New York City's Albert Einstein...

Diet high in dairy products reduces risk of insulin resistance.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Overweight adults who consume dairy products were less likely to be insulin resistant and may lower their risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular...

Sugar on the brain: Study shows sugar dependence in rats.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It's a common refrain: "I'm addicted to sugar." Now a study by Princeton University psychologists suggests that such urges really may be a form of addiction, sharing some of the physiological...

Heart function is decreased in obese young women compared with lean women.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New research being presented at the American Society of Echocardiography 13th annual Scientific Sessions indicates that obesity in young women is associated with a mild but significant decrease in...

Physical training increases cardiovascular fitness, lowers body fat in obese adolescents.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - High-intensity physical activity improved cardiovascular fitness of obese adolescents, while training of any intensity reduced the amount of body...

Less inflammation, better heart health seen in physically fit females.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physical fitness may have an anti-inflammatory effect that protects against heart attacks, according to a report in the June 25, 2002, rapid-access issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart...

CDC: Alabama adults have highest blood pressure rate in nation.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Greasy, fried, salty food that's a regular part of many Southern diets has resulted in high blood pressure for nearly one in three adults in Alabama, the worst rate in the nation, according to a U.S....

POSATIV study gives new hope to South Asians with high blood pressure.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The first U.K. study to examine the effect of modern antihypertensive medication in Southern Asians has been published in the British Journal of Cardiology. The POSATIV (Patients Of South Asian...

Studies support efficacy of mealtime dosing of aspart and its use in women with gestational diabetes.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Insulin aspart (rDNA origin) injection (brand name, NovoLog), a rapid-acting human insulin analog, maintains adequate control of blood glucose levels following a meal whether administered just before...

Primary research on obesity available from Decision Resources.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Decision Resources has published primary research on obesity. The research includes surveys of primary care physicians discussing how they manage overweight and obese patients. One hundred twenty...

New study shows people likely to seek massage for sports injuries.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Research released by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) in conjunction with Harris Interactive, shows that 44% of people are likely to seek out massage...

NHLBI study shows weight concerns increase girls' risk of becoming smokers.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Concern about weight and the drive to be thin increase the risk a girl will become a daily smoker by the time she's 18 or 19 years old, according to a new study sponsored by the National Heart, Lung,...

Higher fiber intake linked to later periods, scientists say.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Prepubescent girls who consume more fiber in their diets can decrease by 50% the risk of early onset of menstruation, say scientists at the University of Toronto. "The risk of early menarche for...

Survey: More women know about folic acid but still don't take it.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Almost 70% of American women of childbearing age fail to take the B vitamin folic acid every day even though many of them are aware it helps prevent birth defects, according to a survey released by the...

Aborigine study suggests body mass index guidelines should be lower to block diabetes.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The recommended upper limit of a healthy body mass index (BMI) might need to be revised downward to protect people from becoming glucose intolerant or developing type 2 diabetes, a new University of...

More clues about obesity revealed by brain-imaging study.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The idea that obese people eat too much because they find food more palatable than lean people do has gained support from a new brain-imaging study at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven...

Research shows older children, adolescents grew heavier in Brazil, China, U.S. over past 30 years.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Over the past three decades, the percentage of older children and adolescents who were overweight tripled in Brazil and almost doubled in the United States, according to a new University of North...

Potassium-rich foods can help offset high-salt diet contribution to osteoporosis.
July 27, 2002... 2002 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Eating potassium-rich foods such as bananas, tomatoes and orange juice can help prevent osteoporosis for postmenopausal women by decreasing calcium losses, according to a University of California - San...