If You Think Your Work-Out Is Tough Enough, It Probably Is
The intensity of physical activity needed to reduce the risk of heart disease depends on individual fitness levels.
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Family Mealtime Is More Than Just Sitting at the Table
Sitting down as a family at the dinner table appears to play an important role in promoting healthful eating among adolescents.
Diabetes and Nutrition
Here are some tips to help people recently diagnosed with diabetes, but they hold true for anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle.
Lifestyle Choices, Diabetes and Your Heart
Lifestyle choices, including eating a healthy diet and regular physical activity, are important for maintaining a healthy heart. For people with diabetes, these lifestyle choices are even more important.
Generic Drugs: What You Need to Know
An estimated 44 percent of all prescriptions in the United States are filled with generic drugs. Here are some frequently asked questions and answers about generic drugs.
A Touch of Diabetes?
Sometimes, inside the health-care professions and health-care regulatory agencies, we hear the opinion that type 2 diabetes isn’t that big a deal.
Diabetes and Aging
More people are living into their seventies, eighties, and nineties, and diabetes is on the upswing in this population. As is the case in younger groups, type 2 diabetes is sometimes preventable, but certain group-specific characteristics present new challenges to health care professionals treating older people with diabetes.
Endocrinology and Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, in which the body’s white blood cells kill the islet cells that make insulin in the pancreas. Endocrinologists treat diabetes with diet and medications, which may include insulin.
Latest on Physical Activity Still Shows Exercise Gap
While more than 60 percent of those recently surveyed get some physical activity during their leisure hours, only a little over 30 percent of the population actually meet current recommendations that define regular exercise.
Should You Take a Vitamin Supplement?
Recent reviews in JAMA make a strong case for adults to use a daily vitamin supplement. Meanwhile, a position paper published last year in the Journal of the ADA emphasizes that decisions about supplements should be based on an accurate appraisal of scientific evidence and individual needs. So what should you do?
Getting Help for Fitness
Physical activity is now recognized as a major factor in staying healthy and reducing the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other health problems. Joining a health club or fitness center can be an excellent way to get motivated and get moving. But experts warn that you should take time to choose wisely.
Diabetes and African American Women
Among African American women, Type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions; age 20 years or older, the rate is 11.8 percent. About 1 in 4 black women over the age of 55 years of age has diabetes, nearly twice the rate of white women.
Diabetes and American Indian and Alaska Native Women
For American Indians – Alaska Natives, both women and men, the incidence rate of type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions. Overall, 12.2 percent of AI/AN women and men over the age of 19 have been diagnosed with diabetes.
Nutrition Trends Survey: Interest & Misconceptions
Most Americans say diet and nutrition are important to them and they report making significant improvements in eating behaviors – yet several myths about nutrition continue to flourish.
