Phytonutrients, Foods & Bone Health
Along with vitamins, minerals and fiber, fruits and vegetables contain plant-based compounds known as phytonutrients that research suggests provide a range of potential health benefits, including bone health.
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Comments OffHow much “green exercise” produces the greatest improvement in mood and sense of personal well-being? A new study in the American Chemical Society’s semi-monthly journal Environmental Science & Technology has a surprising answer.
The answer is likely to please people in a society with much to do but little time to do it: Just five minutes of exercise in a park, working in a backyard garden, on a nature trail, or other green space will benefit mental health.
Jules Pretty and Jo Barton explain in the study that green exercise is physical activity in the presence of nature.
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Individuals who regain weight should exercise to maintain health benefits of weight loss
With the obesity rate rising for American adults and children, health concerns such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease are a frequent reality.
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Posted in Diet and Exercise Tags: Aerobic Exercise, American Adults, Children Health, Diabetes And Cardiovascular Disease, Diet and Exercise, Disease Risk, Exercise Group, Exercise Physiology, Exercise Plan, Health Benefits, Health Concerns, Health Status, Human Environmental Sciences, Losing Weight, Metabolic Syndrome, Overweight Men, Rapid Deterioration, Risk Factor, Risk Factors, Tom R Thomas Comments OffStatins, a class of drugs used to lower cholesterol levels, have been successfully fighting heart disease for years. A new study from Tel Aviv University has now found that the same drugs cut the risks of cataracts in men by almost 40%.
“Doctors have known for some time that there is some sort of preventative effect that statins have against cataracts,” says Dr.
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Posted in Diet and Exercise Tags: Annals Of Epidemiology, Cataract, Cataracts, Cause Mortality, Cholesterol Levels, diseases and conditions, Faculty Of Medicine, Health Benefits, Lower Cholesterol, Medical Community, Nerve Cells, Oxidization, Premature Death, Preventive Medicine, Sackler Faculty, Statin, Strong Association, Tel Aviv University, Time Magazine Cover, Varda Comments OffNew studies show that overweight and obese people using alli® (orlistat 60 mg) with a reduced calorie, lower-fat diet can significantly reduce weight, visceral fat, and waist circumference and therefore may reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke.1,2 The studies were presented at the 1st International Congress on Abdominal Obesity in Hong Kong earlier today.
alli is the only FDA-approved OTC weight loss aid that is clinically proven to boost weight loss by 50 percent and significantly reduce excess visceral fat.3 Working in the digestive tract, alli prevents about 25 percent of the fat that a person eats from being absorbed.3
Visceral fat is a dangerous type of fat that surrounds the vital organs in the abdomen and when present in excess disrupts the normal functioning of organs, increasing the risk of life-threatening diseases.4-12 Even modest weight loss can result in significant reductions in visceral fat and substantially improve health.14-17 In fact, when losing weight, visceral fat is among the first fat lost, which is associated with noticeable health benefits such as reductions in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL).21 This helps reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and stroke.4-9 It is these health complications that have a high personal and societal toll and impact in the global obesity epidemic.
“Although most individuals try to lose weight to improve their appearance, it’s important to help them understand that losing excess fat reduces their risks of life-threatening diseases,” said Jeanine Albu, M.D., Senior Attending in Medicine, Associate Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition and the Chief of the Metabolism and Diabetes Clinic at the St.
Posted in Diet and Exercise Tags: Associate Chief, Dangerous Type, Diabetes Clinic, Digestive Tract, Health Benefits, Health Complications, Heart Disease, International Congress, Ldl, Life Threatening Diseases, Losing Weight, Low Density Lipoprotein, Obesity Epidemic, Orlistat, Risk Of Life, Roosevelt Hospital Center, St Luke, Type 2 Diabetes, Vital Organs, Waist Circumference Comments OffMany of the health benefits of aerobic exercise are due to the most recent exercise session (rather than weeks, months and even years of exercise training), and the nature of these benefits can be greatly affected by the food we eat afterwards, according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
“Differences in what you eat after exercise produce different effects on the body’s metabolism,” said the study’s senior author, Jeffrey F.
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