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An App for Recovery from Anorexia
Maybe LA has been getting to me this spring, I realised I want to create an app. I see it guiding the user along the entire arc of recovery from anorexia from making the initial decision to act by eating more , to resisting the urge to stop weight restoration at a predetermined BMI, to learning to leave the app s support behind. It will involve no total calorie calculations and no bodyweight targe ...
Psychology Today - Tue. Jun 27
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High Temperatures Raise the Risk of Aggression in Dogs
It was an unusually hot day and I was feeling uncomfortably warm. I rang the bell and as the door opened I could see the form of my colleague standing next to a large German Shepherd. The tall man said hello and motioned me into the house, which like most homes in my region, had no air conditioning. As I entered I bent down to offer a greeting to the dog, however instead of approaching he gave me ...
Psychology Today - Tue. Jun 27
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Why We Think We Are Invincible
Last week Otto Warmbier , a 22-year-old college student who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea died shortly after returning to the U.S. Warmbier had served more than 17 months for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel. He had already been in a coma for more than a year at the time of his return and suffered extensive brain damage , which North Korean officials c ...
Psychology Today - Tue. Jun 27
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Persistent Stress May Hasten Death in Heart Patients
If you have heart disease, unrelenting stress might hasten your death, researchers report. Adults who suffered from persistent mental distress, including depression and anxiety, were nearly four times more likely to die from heart disease and almost three times more likely to die from any cause compared to stress-free folks, New Zealand researchers found. The cumulative burden of psychological str ...
Healthday - Tue. Jun 27
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Yoga more risky for causing musculoskeletal pain than you might think
Yoga causes musculoskeletal pain in 10 per cent of people and exacerbates 21 per cent of existing injuries, University of Sydney research shows. Published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies , the findings come from the first prospective study to investigate injuries caused from recreational participation in yoga. Yoga is an increasingly popular complementary or alternative therapy f ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Jun 27
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Transcranial stimulation and/or physical therapy improves walking speed in Par...
June 27, 2017 - Noninvasive brain stimulation and physical therapy--alone or in combination--improve some measures of walking ability in patients with Parkinson s disease PD , concludes a clinical trial in the American Journal of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation , the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists . The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer . Transcranial direct cur ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Jun 27
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Older adults who take 5+ medications walk slower than those who take fewer med...
Polypharmacy is the term used when someone takes many usually five or more different medications. Experts suggest that, for most older adults, taking that many medications may not be medically necessary. Taking multiple medications also can be linked to problems such as falls, frailty, disability, and even death. Polypharmacy also is a problem for older adults due to side effects or interactions r ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Jun 27
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New gene editing technique could drive out mosquito-borne disease
Scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Riverside have demonstrated a way to edit the genome of disease-carrying mosquitoes that brings us closer to suppressing them on a continental scale. The study used CRISPR Cas9 gene-editing technology to insert and spread genes designed to suppress wild insects, while at the same time avoiding the resistance to these efforts that evolution would typically favor. Th ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Jun 27
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Are activity monitors fit for exercise research? Getting there, but further st...
June 26, 2017 - Activity monitors or fitness trackers are fun and informative gadgets to help track daily physical activity. But as a source of objective data for research on the health benefits of exercise, they re not yet fully up to speed, reports a paper in Progress in Preventive Medicine , the official journal of the European Society of Preventive Medicine . The journal is published by Wolter ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Jun 27
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Endocrine Society issues Scientific Statement on obesity's causes
WASHINGTON--A new Scientific Statement issued by the Endocrine Society calls for more research aimed specifically at understanding the underlying mechanisms that make it difficult to maintain long-term weight loss. Despite decades of research and billions of dollars spent each year on treatment, understanding of the underlying causes of obesity remains limited. One in three American adults is affe ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Jun 27
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Community-wide effort to fight childhood obesity shows promise
Boston, MA - A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements among schoolchildren over a relatively short period of time, suggesting that such a comprehensive approach holds promise for the future, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, along with two others evaluating Mas ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Jun 27
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Comprehensive program improves measures of childhood obesity at community heal...
BOSTON - A comprehensive program to reduce or prevent childhood obesity in low-income communities led to significant improvements in obesity-related measures among children cared for at a Massachusetts community health center. The report of a study led by a MassGeneral Hospital for Children physician is one of three in the July issue of Obesity describing implementation of the Mass. Childhood Obes ...
EurekAlert - Tue. Jun 27
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