Archive for June, 2010
Nowadays everyone is looking for the ways to getting slim and smart but not willing to leave his/her own car and travel into the public transits, recently a group of researchers have notified this thing that if people will leave their cars and travel in the public transit then they’ll be able to effectively burn their calories in moving from one transit to another.
Image by Jasperdo
According to the study’s co-author Robert Stokes, coordinator of the Urban Environmental Studies Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia “Fixed rail transit systems provide a moderate public health benefit to users by creating more opportunity for walking in one’s daily commute”.
In this study almost 500 people were surveyed in Charlotte, N.C. and the time period was before and after the completion of light rail transit system in that area.
The cancer patients and this diseases ‘cancer’ has always been the major focus of medical experts and researchers worldwide and with the progress of technology every new day gives us some more interesting facts about cancer.
Image by news.yahoo
Recently according to the new guidelines for the cancer patients’ exercise has been given a chief focus. It is a true fact that physical activity carries a great impact on human life and now doctors also say that eases some cancer related fatigue.
It has been proved that the more your body will be fat, the more you’ll become weaker and scientists have long declared this thing that being overweight increases the rate of getting cancer.
The child obesity is a very major risk for the health of children nowadays and it is spreading rapidly due to the increased usage of junk food, a recent study has found out that the school based efforts for better nutrition; better exercise and improved education can effectively help those kids who are at higher risk of child obesity.
Image by Newhouse Military
The team of researchers which carried out this study also suggests that the child obesity develops only in those children who have got weight problem throughout their life and these school-based activities can best help those children while the other children who don’t have risks of obesity can remain smart even in those schools where such activities are not performed.
As this thing is not unknown to anyone nowadays that junk food is bringing many negative effects on the health of children,
Image by Katie and Joe
McDonalds one of the famous places for this Junk food has been bringing many toy gifts for children for the sake of promoting their happy meals but the consumer groups in US have announced to took actions against this policy of McDonalds.
The US Consumer group has threatened to take legal actions against McDonalds if it won’t stop giving toys for the promotion of their junk food. The group is of the belief that it is totally unfair and deceptive marketing to “lure small children” and this action is also illegal against consumer protection laws in various states of the US.
It is a very old conception that obesity is one of the major contributors to the heart diseases and also diabetes, this thing may be true for some people but for all obese individuals this thinking is not right, a new Dutch research has proven.
Image by Tobyotter
According to the lead researcher Dr. Andre van Beek, from the University Medical Center in Groningen “Metabolically healthy obese persons do not have the elevated cardiovascular risk of obesity, but represent only a small subset of the total obese population” and further “It’s the metabolic risk profile that counts and not the weight itself”.
For the purpose of conducting this research, the researchers have collected data of 1,325 obese people and these were among those 8,356 Dutch people who participated in a large Dutch study.
