Can you exercise away your diabetes symptoms?
In this story writer Jenny Hall talks with Greg Wells about the relationship between type 2 diabetes and exercise.
Diabetes
May 14, 2012 |
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Students more likely to be fit when physical education is mandatory
Fifth graders in California public school districts that comply with the state’s mandatory physical education requirement are more likely to have better fitness levels than students in districts that don’t comply, ...
Pediatrics
May 02, 2012 |
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Letting go can boost quality of life
Most people go through life setting goals for themselves. But what happens when a life-altering experience makes those goals become unachievable or even unhealthy?
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Geographic information systems demonstrate links between health and location
The neighborhoods in which children and adolescents live and spend their time play a role in whether or not they eat a healthy diet, get enough exercise or become obese, concludes a collection of studies in a special theme ...
Health
Apr 10, 2012 |
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In-school tests suggest overweight boys and girls benefit from being fit
Improving or maintaining physical fitness appears to help obese and overweight children reach a healthy weight, reports a new study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Researchers ...
Overweight and Obesity
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Dietary patterns exist among US adults based on demographics
Scientists say they have identified five eating patterns for U.S. adults that are strongly influenced by age, race, region, gender, income and education.
Health
Mar 13, 2012 |
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State laws mandating P.E., recess linked with increased in-school physical activity among children
State and school district-level policies mandating minimum requirements for in-school physical education and recess time are associated with increased odds of schools in those states and districts meeting physical activity ...
Health
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Research aims to prevent obesity by reaching parents, young children through child care
A Kansas State University research group is jumping ahead to improve nutrition and physical activity among young children and prevent childhood obesity.
Health
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Employee programs teaching heath care 'consumer' skills may also produce health benefits
A workplace program designed to teach employees to act more like consumers when they make health care decisions, for example, by finding and evaluating health information or choosing a benefit plan, also improved ...
Health
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Adolescents sleeping more hours score higher in math
Adolescents sleeping more hours score higher on mathematics, while those who sleep between six and ten hours (ie. an average sleep pattern) got significantly better scores, as compared to those with a short (6 hours or less ...
Health
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Fitness tests get tweaked
We're not saying they're not out there, somewhere, blithely crushing pre-pubescent souls with their whistles and clipboards and flexed-arm-hang timers.
Health
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Physical activity and sport participation book traverses the lifespan
In an age of spiraling inactivity levels and escalating obesity rates across the planet, a new collection of research articles focused on participation in sport and physical activity across the lifespan has just been released.
Health
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Positive impact of growing public awareness of obesity epidemic
Increasing public awareness of the childhood obesity epidemic may be contributing to evidence of overall reductions in body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity in children, according to the results of a ...
Health
Aug 12, 2011 |
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Mississippi tips scale as nation's fattest state
(AP) -- Rural Mississippi is the country's fattest state for the seventh year in a row, according to an annual obesity report issued Thursday. Colorado, a playground for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts, is the nation's thi ...
Health
Jul 07, 2011 |
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More than one-third of California teens do not participate in school physical education
Despite a state requirement that public middle and high school students get 400 minutes of physical education every 10 days, approximately 1.3 million — more than a third (38 percent) of all adolescents enrolled in California ...
Health
May 31, 2011 |
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