Prof Knut Gjesdal told the ESC Congress that merged Norwegian surveys of 428,519 people from 1974 to 2003 showed heavy leisure-time exercise raised men's risk 2- to 3-fold, with data inconclusive in women. He said exercise's general health benefits still outweigh the added risk.
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Lifestyle
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Lifestyle
MU Study Links Inactivity with Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes (PR)
MU researcher John Thyfault found that healthy people who cut their daily physical activity by about half for three days doubled their blood sugar spikes after meals, which he says points to inactivity playing a role in type 2 diabetes before any weight gain appears.
Lifestyle
Contrary to earlier findings, excess body fat in elderly decreases life expectancy (PR)
Adventist Health Studies research found men over 75 with a BMI above 22.3 had a 3.7-year shorter life expectancy and women over 75 with a BMI above 27.4 a 2.1-year shorter one, reversing earlier findings that relied on a single baseline weight measurement.
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Physical activity cuts risk of heart disease
Meta-analysing 33 study reports, Sattelmair's team found people getting the recommended 150 minutes a week of moderate leisure-time activity were 14 percent less likely to develop coronary heart disease than the inactive, and those getting 300 minutes 20 percent less likely.
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Weight loss improves erection in men with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus
Obese men with type 2 diabetes who followed one of two weight-loss diets for eight weeks improved their erectile function, sexual desire and urinary symptoms, a Journal of Sexual Medicine study reports. They cut weight by 10 percent and waist circumference by 5 percent.
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Simple lifestyle modifications drastically cut premature death risk - study
Following 120,852 Dutch adults aged 55-69 from 1986 to 1996, P.A. van den Brandt scored Mediterranean diet, not smoking, normal weight and regular activity. The highest-scoring women were four times less likely to die than the lowest and men twice, an estimated 15.1 and 8.4 extra years.
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Does prenatal exposure to magnetic fields cause asthma in kids?
In a Kaiser Permanente cohort whose mothers wore meters during pregnancy, each 1-mG rise in median daily magnetic field exposure was associated with a 15% higher rate of asthma in offspring. Children of mothers with high exposure had a more than 3.5-fold higher rate.
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The Soap You Should Never Use - But 75% of Households Do
Studies show soaps with triclosan and triclocarban prevent no more gastrointestinal or respiratory illness than regular soap, and in artificial drains triclosan favored tolerant bacteria. In female rats it advanced puberty and suppressed thyroid hormone levels.
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INSIDE Your Home: The Ugly Invaders Which Can Make You Sick
Mercola writes that the average person spends 90 percent of their time inside buildings, and that according to the EPA indoor air holds two to five times more contaminants than outdoor air, and on occasion as much as 100 times more.
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Could this Commonly Used Body Care Ingredient Imbalance Your Hormones?
In female rats, the antimicrobial triclosan advanced the age of puberty and suppressed serum thyroid hormone concentrations, a Toxicological Sciences study found. The chemical, added to soaps, toothpaste and hair products, has been detected in human breast milk, blood and urine.
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Manual breast milk expression better than breast pump for poor feeders (PR)
In a trial of 68 mothers whose newborns latched or sucked poorly, hand expression and pumping yielded similar milk volume, pain and confidence. But at two months, 97 percent of the hand-expression group were breastfeeding, against just under 73 percent of the pump group.
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Secondhand smoke and teen hearing loss
Using NHANES data on 1,533 adolescents aged 12 to 19, researchers linked secondhand smoke exposure to raised hearing thresholds and 1.83 times the risk of unilateral low-frequency hearing loss, rising with serum cotinine levels. Nearly 82% of affected teens did not notice any hearing difficulty.
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"Controversial" doll promotes breastfeeding
Berjuan Toys of Spain is bringing its Breast Milk Baby doll to US retailers after a Las Vegas trade show; it comes with a cloth top showing a girl where to hold the doll to nurse. The piece then sets out health agencies' findings on breastfeeding's benefits for infants and mothers.
Lifestyle
Childhood obesity screenings being missed
California survey data from 2003 to 2007 show pediatricians screened obese teens only slightly more often than normal-weight teens, 64% versus 59% for physical activity, and overweight but not obese teens no more often at all. Screening rates fell across all areas over the period.
Lifestyle
Do Grandparents make better drivers?
Analysing five years of crash data covering 217,976 children, a Pediatrics study found those in grandparent-driven crashes had half the injury risk of children in parent-driven crashes, though they were less likely to be optimally restrained. Grandparents were 9.5% of drivers and 6.6% of injuries.
Lifestyle
'Love your body' to lose weight (PR)
In a year-long trial, overweight and obese women who attended 30 weekly sessions on body image, emotional eating and personal barriers lost about 7 percent of their starting weight, against under 2 percent for women given general health information.
Lifestyle
Battle of the bulge: Grocery Stores V. Fast Food Restaurants
A study in Archives of Internal Medicine that followed thousands of shoppers in major cities for 15 years found better supermarket access did not lead low-income residents to eat more fruits and vegetables. Researchers say proximity to fast food weighed more heavily on food choices.
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Secondhand smoke and ADHD connected?
Following ethnically diverse 8- to 13-year-olds who lived with a smoker, researchers writing in Pediatrics found secondhand smoke exposure associated with susceptibility to smoking. Children who called the exposure unpleasant were 78% less likely to land in the high-susceptibility group.
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