Lifestyle may link depression and heart disease

sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.sciencenews.org)

The long-standing connection between depression and heart problems might be traceable to the fact that depressed people are less physically active than others, a new study of heart patients shows. A greater tendency in depressed people to smoke and to fail to take medications regularly may also play a role, researchers report in the Nov. 26 Journal of the American Medical Association

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Increasing physical activity with a little boost

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Personalized programs that provide feedback and motivation through mail or phone counseling offer a cost-effective way to promote healthy behaviors, such as exercise.

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Leisure Physical Activity and the Risk of Fracture in Men

addict submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (medicine.plosjournals.org)

Data from previous studies are inconsistent, and it is therefore uncertain whether, to what extent, and at what level leisure physical activity influences the risk of osteoporotic fractures in men. A cohort of 2,205 men, 49–51 y of age, was enrolled in a longitudinal, population-based study. Leisure physical activity and other lifestyle habits were established at baseline and at ages 60, 70, 77, and 82 y. During 35 y of follow-up, 482 men had at least one fracture.Our data indicate that regular sports activities can reduce the risk of fractures in older men.

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Burning fat and carbohydrate during exercise

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In a paper published in The Journal of Physiology, researchers from Copenhagen shed light on fat oxidation during exercise and physical activity. Their observations suggest that fat oxidation during exercise reflects a fine interplay between the cardiovascular, neurological, endocrine and muscle metabolic systems.

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Nutrition and Physical Activity During and After Cancer Treatment: An American Cancer Society Guide for Informed Choices

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Cancer survivors are often highly motivated to seek information about food choices, physical activity, and dietary supplement use to improve their treatment outcomes, quality of life, and survival. To address these concerns, the American Cancer Society (ACS) convened a group of experts in nutrition, physical activity, and cancer to evaluate the scientific evidence and best clinical practices related to optimal nutrition and physical activity after the diagnosis of cancer

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Long-term weight losses associated with prescription of higher physical activity goals. Are higher levels of physical activity protective against weight regain?

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High levels of exercise may be necessary for long-term maintenance of weight loss. We aimed to determine in a randomized prospective design whether encouraging 2500 kcal physical activity/wk produced greater 30-mo weight losses than did the standard 1000 kcal physical activity/wk prescription. Although participants in the HPA group sustained the 2500-kcal activity goal during the 18-mo treatment, activity declined once treatment ended, which resulted in no between-group differences in activity or weight loss at 2.5 y

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