Diet Care

(HealthDay News) — Don’t become a couch potato just because your doctor’s prescription for physical therapy has run out.
The American Council on Exercise suggests how to transition from physical therapy to a regular exercise regimen:

Make a commitment to staying physically active and fit; make sure you don’t slip into a sedentary lifestyle.
Before the end of [...]

CDC Report Tallies Spending, Health Care Access, and Disease Trends
By Matt McMillenWebMD Health News
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
March 16, 2012 — The CDC today released its annual state of the union’s health, and there’s good news and bad. We’re living longer. But we’re also gaining more weight. Teen pregnancies are at a record low. [...]

(HealthDay News) — You shouldn’t stop exercising during the summer months, just because the mercury has jumped to uncomfortable heights. But you should take precautions to protect yourself against heat-related illness.
The American Council on Exercise offers these guidelines:

Drink plenty of water before, during and after exercise.
Don’t exercise as vigorously as you normally do, especially during [...]

FRIDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) — A type of therapy that helps people change their behavior seems to benefit severely obese children but not severely obese teens, new research suggests.
The study included 643 Swedish youngsters (313 female and 330 male) aged 6 to 16, who began “behavioral treatment” for obesity between 1998 and 2006. The [...]

SUNDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) — Doing more repetitions with less weight builds muscle and increases strength just as effectively as training with heavy weights, a new Canadian study indicates.
The critical factor in muscle gain is pushing yourself to the point of fatigue, according to the researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
They examined how [...]

FRIDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) — Obese women often stop getting their periods, but new research suggests weight-loss surgery can help regulate their monthly cycles, while also stemming excessive hair growth and skin problems that often accompany significant weight gain.
“Obesity is a huge problem in the United States,” said study author Chandhana Paka, a fellow [...]

THURSDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) — Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), a drug used to combat clots in stroke patients, does not increase the risk of dangerous bleeding in patients also taking the blood thinner warfarin, new research found.
The study included information on more than 23,000 ischemic stroke patients treated with tPA at more than 1,200 [...]