Overweight Women Need More Exercise To Maintain Weight Loss A study published in the July 28 issue of Archives of Internal
Medicine finds that overweight and obese women need to do more than just limit calories in order to sustain a 10 percent weight loss over two years: they also need to exercise 55 minutes per day, five days per week. Overweight people account for more than 65% of adults in America, and it is a serious public
health concern.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comEating CLA-Enriched Cookies Increases Levels Of Beneficial Fatty Acids In Breast Milk Have a cookie before breast-feeding, mom? Eating special cookies enriched with conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) can increase the level of these potentially
healthful fatty acids in breast milk, reports a recent study in the journal Nutrition Research. Led by Athena A. Moutsioulis of University of New Hampshire, the researchers designed a study to find out how long it takes for CLA that mothers eat in foods to appear in breast milk.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comInheritance Of Hormonal Disorder Marked By Excessive Insulin In Daughters Elevated levels of insulin could be an early sign that girls whose mothers suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome -- or PCOS -- may also be susceptible to the disease, according to gynecologists who have found evidence of insulin resistance in young children. The findings could help determine whether daughters of women suffering from PCOS are at a higher risk of developing the disease, compared to girls whose mothers do not have the disease.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAPA Calls Baby Borrowers Harmful To Young Children, Adolescents' Mental Health Calling the NBC Show, The Baby Borrowers, exploitive and harmful to young children and families mental
health, the American Psychiatric Association is urging NBC to provide a better review process of its programming in the future and to take into consideration the serious mental
health implications shows such as the Baby Borrowers can have on individuals. The APA is calling on NBC to end this type of misuse of children used in order to secure ratings.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCatholic Advocates Call On Pope To Lift Church's Ban On Contraceptive Use More than 50 Catholic groups in an open letter published Friday in Italy's largest newspaper Corriere della Sera called on Pope Benedict XVI to lift the Roman Catholic Church's ban on contraceptive use, Reuters reports. According to Reuters, the letter was published on the 40th anniversary of the late Pope Paul VI's encyclical "
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comReproductive Tourism Could Put Women, Fetuses At Risk, Experts Say Women who travel abroad to obtain cheaper fertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, could be putting themselves and their fetuses at risk, some fertility experts said, Reuters reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRCN Responds To Healthcare Commission's Report On Acute Mental Health Services, UK Dr. Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "This report shows that new services developed in the community are effective and show a general improvement in mental
health care. However, a substantial number of people still use inpatient services and these are not as good as they could be.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comVeterans' Hotline Averted More Than 1,200 Suicides In First Year More than 22,000 veterans have called a veterans suicide hotline since its launch in July 2007, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, according to government data to be released on Monday, the AP/Baltimore Sun reports. Richard McKeon, public
health adviser for HHS'
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