Start of the article: “WINSTON SALEM NC — In a randomized trial of 100 older mainly female obese patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) 20 weeks of supervised diet or exercise or both led to weight reduction…
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Paper in JAMA:;http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2478897 Concluaion: “Conclusions and Relevance;;Although higher monthly doses of vitamin D were effective in reaching a threshold of at least 30 ng/mL of 25-hydroxyvitamin D they had no benefit on lower extremity function and were associated with increased…
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www.who.int/ageing/publications/globalhealth/en/“Overview Population aging is a powerful and transforming demographic force. We are only just beginning to comprehend its impacts at the national and global levels. As we prepare for a new demographic reality we hope this report raises awareness not…
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Concludion: “This large study reaffirms the importance of healthy lifestyles here evidenced for adults aged45 y and older. This analysis investigated four established and two novel risk factors namelyprolonged sitting and unhealthy sleep duration which may be added to behavioral…
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Link to paper:;http://www.neurology.org/content/early/2015/08/12/WNL.0000000000001939.short Conclusoin. “….Children with MS reporting higher levels of strenuous PA had lower T2 lesion volumes and lower relapse rates suggesting a potential protective effect of strenuous PA in this population. Further longitudinal studies are needed to establish…
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Full paper: www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/pdfs/2015c.pdf Conclusion: “The bottom line is that just as cultural innovations are causing the physical activity epidemic new cultural measures are needed to restore the need to move in our environments. Until we do so effectively we can…
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Article;International Journal of Behavioral Medicine;February 2015;Volume 22;Issue 1;pp 32-50;First online:;02 May 2014 “AbstractBackground Despite the promising findings related to the efficacy of interventions aimed at promoting physical activity (PA) in primary health care (PHC) the translation of these interventions to…
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www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/genetik-lebenslang-aktiv-1.2715544 See also “Physical activity genes for physical fitness and risk of coronary heart disease.” at;Med Sci Sports Exerc.;2013 Apr;45(4):691-7. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182784e9f. Pubmed;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23073218 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23073218“CONCLUSIONS:;In this large prospective cohort of women genes associated with physical fitness did not modify the inverse…
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