Severely obese patients who have lost significant amounts of weight by changing their diet and exercise habits may be as successful in keeping the weight off long-term as those individuals who lost weight after weight loss surgery.
Researchers from Boston University have found that reducing time spent watching television and increasing time spent walking briskly or engaged in vigorous physical activity may reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes in African-American women.
National Association of Chronic Disease Directors has developed this Diabetes Council Advocacy Toolbox.
Her er Kræftens Bekæmpelse, Dansk Cyklist Forbund, Forbrugerrådet, Hjerteforeningen, Diabetesforeningen og Lægeforeningens fælles forslag om at staten skal afsætte 200 mio/år til cykelbyudvikling i Regeringens investeringsplan for fremtidens infrastruktur på trafikområdet.
Den 14. november offentliggjorde CONCITO (Danmarks Grønne Tænketank) en transportpolitisk værktøjskasse, der viser mulige veje til CO2 reduktion i transportsektoren. En fordobling af cyklismen i Danmark kan spare optil 430.000 tons CO2/år.
Policy that restricts the availability of unhealthy snack foods in schools is associated with greater fruit and vegetable consumption in a nationally representative sample of 5th grade children. These findings suggest that a restrictive snack policy should be part of a multi-faceted approach to improve children’s diet quality.
Researchers at Yale identified 15,792 and 35,071 cancer cases in 195,229 women and 288,109 men, respectively from 1995 to 2003. Fruit intake was not associated with the risk of total cancer among women or men. Vegetable intake was not associated with risk of total cancer among women, but was associated with a significant 6% decrease in risk in men. This significant finding among men was no longer evident when we limited the analysis to men who never smoked. Intake of fruit and vegetables was generally unrelated to total cancer incidence in this huge cohort. Confounding by smoking is a likely explanation for the observed association between vegetable intake and cancer in men.
In a feasibility study from University of Hawaii anthropometric and fitness measures were taken at baseline and 12 weeks later for 68 students in 2 schools. A significant decrease in skinfold thicknesses and increase in distance covered in the 3-minute walk-run test were found. Incorporating daily physical activity into afterschool programs is feasible and effective, but teacher interest is critical, and the nonmandatory nature of this venue may limit children’s participation.
16 Swedish subjects were given rye bran flakes containing 11, 22, or 44 mg total alkylresorcinols (AR) 3 times daily during week-long intervention period. Both plasma AR concentrations and urinary metabolites in 24-h samples showed a dose-response relation to increased AR intake, which strongly supports the hypothesis that ARs and their metabolites may be useful as biomarkers of whole grain wheat and rye intakes.
Portion Distortion
Dec 7
Americans aren’t very good at recognizing reasonable portion sizes anymore. If people could cut down on their portion sizes, this would be the single greatest way to combat the creeping obesity epidemic, said Madelyn Fernstrom from the University of Pittsburgh.