Your Letters: Oct. 22
Ventura County Star
More facts, please Re: your Oct. 19 article, “Doctors split on health reform”: This article left out so many facts required to understand the story that, at best, the article could be considered incomplete and useless, but, at worst, the om...
GoTrybe.com Raises Awareness with World Diabetes Day Blue Photo ...
PR Inside
GoTrybe's mission is to combat childhood obesity and type II diabetes and promote general health education, as well as turn sedentary screen time into active screen time(TM). For more information on World Diabetes Day, visit www.worlddiabet...
Firm parenting key to solving child obesity
TCU Daily Skiff
Today's society is not as physically active as it once was because of the rise of sedentary activities and concerns about children's safety. One of the issues that has emerged out of this society is whether or not morbidly obese children sh...
Report: Quality of care for insured Americans slipped in 2008
News-Medical-Net
CNNMoney reports that for the first time in more than 10 years, the "overall quality of health care" for Americans insured through commercial and public plans appears to have slipped.
Sex appeal trumphs humility
The Prague Post
Breaking the cake. McConaughey undermines matrimony, literally and figuratively, in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. The ludicrously titled romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is not much of a movie, to be sure. But it has redeeming momen...
Healthful Messages, Wrapped in Fiction
The Ledger
The reasons are not clear, but one theory is that though reading is a sedentary activity, it does take time away from less healthful activities, like snacking in front of the TV. Delaney Rosen, an 11-year-old sixth grader in Cary, N.C., rea...
Irving-based Gold’s Gym announces the Top Ten Fittest Presidents of ...
Pegasus News
Once called "notoriously lackadaisical" by the New York Times, Hoover's physician remedied his sedentary behavior with the invention of a challenging combination of tennis and volleyball that employed a medicine ball and an eight foot tall ...
What Is Fever? What Causes Fever?
Medical News Today
Fever is a common medical sign that describes an increase in internal body temperature to levels above normal. Generally, a fever is an indication of something unusual in the body. It is the body's response to a disease. In adults, a fever ...
Naps don't harm older folks' nighttime sleep
Reuters UK
Picarsic from University of Pittsburgh and colleagues studied napping behaviors in 414 community-dwelling adults ages 70 to 89 years who were sedentary for the most part and had some physical impairment More than half of these individuals (...
The overweight debate: Healthy and heavy?
MSNBC
Being overweight tends to increase cholesterol, and losing weight can help lower total and LDL levels, while raising HDL levels, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (So can increasing your daily activity if you're se...
Fit minds, fit bodies
Miami Herald
With the alarming rate of obesity among children in the United States, plus the trend toward sedentary youth activities, most of which involve staring at a screen of some sort, school exercise is more important than ever. Even so, some educ...
New Guidelines Make It Easy to Get Fit
Forbes
We are trying to reach out to our sedentary nation and encourage people and help people find ways to become physically active," Royall said. "We were meant and made to move. In the past, human beings spent their days running around looking ...
Fighting a growing problem
The Gilroy Dispatch
Pat Vickroy collects jump ropes from fourth and fifth graders after the Jump Rope Challenge during lunch at Las Animas Elementary School earlier this month. Photo by: Lora Schraft, Staff Photographer Armed with jump ropes and running shoes,...
Healthy living for healthy bones
AsiaOne
SALES executive Sherilyn Ong's grandmother suffered from osteoporosis and she is worried that, with her current lifestyle, she might be at risk of contracting the disease as well.
Cirque du Soleil is a show for the eyes, ears and mind
The Community Connection
In the quarter century since Cirque Du Soleil began setting up on the streets of a small town in Quebec, Canada, as a troupe of jugglers and stilt walkers, the self-styled and much copied circus of gymnasts, mimes, dancers and magicians has...
Govt touts tips to tackle child obesity
Brisbane Times
Parents shouldn't force their children to finish their meal if they say they're full, according to new healthy living guidelines released by the government.
Qatar committed to excellence through sport: Sheikh Saoud
Gulf Times
Sheikh Saoud added that with the oppressive heat in the region restricting outdoor activities leading to sedentary lifestyles, it’s vital for the people to have alternative avenues for sport and recreation. “We plan to involve schools and ....
'Don't force kids to finish meals'
Sky News Australia
Parents shouldn't force their children to finish their meal if they say they're full, according to new healthy living guidelines released by the federal government on Thursday.
Why women have more cavities?
Times of India
He also said that women suffered a more rapid decline in dental health than did men as humans transitioned from hunter-and-gatherers to farmers and more sedentary pursuits, because of dramatic changes in female-specific hormones. For the st...
