Health was on everyone’s mind Saturday as thousands gathered in Orlando for the annual 100 Black Men of America conference.
Held at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts, the five-day conference that ends today was focusing on health issues affecting the black community.
It included a Community Empowerment Project at Jones High School that featured free health [...]
If you didn’t get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you’re in shape.
An adult fitness test is being introduced Wednesday by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It will incorporate several of the exercises that millions of students undertake each year as they [...]
New Zealanders’ intake of sugar is not associated with being overweight or obese, new research released by the Sugar Research Advisory Service has found.
The New Zealand research, headed by University of Otago’s Dr Winsome Parnell and recently published online by Public Health Nutrition, examined data collected in the most recent New Zealand nutrition surveys for [...]
Blocking a single brain enzyme helped short-circuit a key hunger signal in mice and made them eat less, lose weight and have better blood sugar control, US researchers have said.
While much more research lies ahead, they said the finding may lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes in humans.
“We believe we have identified an [...]
CHICAGO - When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. And when babies sleep less, they may gain too much weight. A new Harvard study finds that babies and toddlers who sleep fewer than 12 hours daily are at greater risk for being overweight in preschool, startling evidence that the link between sleep and obesity [...]
If you frequent the food court or drive-through for lunch, you might want to consider brown-bagging it more often, especially if you’re trying to shed a few pounds.
Among my clientele, those who routinely pack their lunch are more successful at losing weight, lowering cholesterol and reducing blood pressure. They have more [...]
Griffith University psychologist Dr Peta Stapleton said cravings for comfort foods such as chocolate, chips, cakes and sugary soft drinks could be more easily overcome by psychological acupuncture.
Dr Stapleton said the process, currently being trialled on the Gold Coast, involved stimulating pressure points with gentle tapping instead of needles.
Psychological acupuncture can help over-ride our emotional [...]
Dr. Pirjo Ilanne-Parikka, of the Finnish Diabetes Association in Tampere reports that a cluster of diabetes risk factors including elevated waist circumference, blood pressure, triglyceride cholesterol, and blood sugar, as well as low levels of high-density lipoproteins (good cholesterol) are collectively known as the metabolic syndrome.
Ilanne-Parikka and colleagues report 15 per cent reductions in both [...]
People who succeed and lose weight and keep it off eat very, very differently, Dr Carolyn Clancy, director of the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, Maryland, said Health. Essentially, youve got to eat a whole lot less.
Clancy has written about the realities of operations to promote weight loss, known as [...]
Parents are important models for their children. Children watch the actions of parents and other adults, and learn from what they see. One lesson children learn is how to maintain their health, including exercise habits.
Overweight parents are at an increased risk of having children with weight problems — and overweight children are more likely to [...]
