A new article has been published at our sister site Nutrition Goddess on the topic of
Lifestyle Changes for Weight Loss
It also comes with a link to a great new special report on this topic from Johns Hopkins Health After 50.
So for everyone struggling with this issue, this report and its further resources should help a lot.
Johns Hopkins Heart Health Alerts Presents Updated Guidelines
In a recent Johns Hopkins Heart Health Alert, Roger S. Blumenthal, M.D., Director of the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins, outlines the new features of the AHA’s 2007 recommendations for women.
In 1999, the American Heart Association first began to notice that heart attack was not just a men’s health issue, but one increasing for women, to such an extent that heart disease was the #1 killer of BOTH men AND women.
Now the AHA has revised their guidelines still further to try to protect more women from fatal heart attack, and encourage them to become more pro-active about their health.
Although a woman’s 10-year risk of developing heart disease may be low, Dr. Blumenthal says, “By the time a woman turns 50, her risk of heart attack or stroke over the next 35 years is between 5-10% — IF she has no other risk factors.
“Unfortunately, only a small percentage of women have optimal risk factors by age 50, suggesting an even higher lifetime risk of heart disease. So, women need to make changes sooner rather than later to reduce their lifetime risk.”
As part of the revised guidelines’ broader approach to prevention, more stringent dietary, exercise, and cholesterol goals have been added. You can read the full article here:
Reuters health has recently reported that infants who sleep an average of less than 12 hours per day have twice the risk of being overweight by age 3 as babies who get at least 12 hours of sleep per day, findings from the Project Viva study indicate.
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/news/?id=reut-20080407elin028&msc=a62593
The same is true of adults. Recent studies have shown that people who sleep less than 8 hours per night tend toward obesity.
It could be a biochemical link. It could also be that being awake more hours, means more hours for eating.
Even if you are feeling unwell, you should definitely make an effort to eat, according to the latest research from a study published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/publicsite/ShowArticle.aspx?IsP=news/614/news614129.xml&dp=2008/04/03&q1=&cen=&xid=nl_EverydayHealthHealthyAging_20080408
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Even if you are not a subscriber, there is a ton of free content there on general health and wellness guidelines. I visit often and have still not read/downloaded everything I am interested in.
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Johns Hopkins Diabetes Health Alerts recently reviewed new research on type 2 diabetes, in which a fat cell protein has been identified that may predict insulin resistance.
In a healthy person the pancreas makes enough insulin to keep the supply and use of glucose in balance. In diabetes, the glucose balancing system is disrupted, and when the body’s cells do not respond to insulin normally — a condition called insulin resistance, the result is an unhealthy rise in blood glucose levels.
Diabetes is often linked to being overweight.
This biomarker could help doctors to prescribe treatments to slow the development of type 2 diabetes and thus avoid the many side effects of diabetes.