The health group created a deck of four business cards with QR codes to drive the public to learn about its ‘Every Body Walk’ campaign. Every Body Walk is Kaiser Permanente’s campaign to encourage the public to walk 30 minutes a day, five days a week. To spread that message, it created QR codes to…
More than 23 million children and teenagers in the United States are overweight or obese. Indianapolis, IN. – infoZine – The fourth annual National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month kicks off September 1, encouraging all Americans to take steps to reduce the effects of the childhood obesity epidemic in the U.S. More than 23 million children…
Learn what steps you can take to prevent high cholesterol or to reduce your LDL “bad” cholesterol level. Too much cholesterol in the blood is one of the main risk factors for heart disease and stroke—two leading causes of death in the United States. One way to prevent these diseases is to detect high…
Solvitur ambulando — “it is solved by walking.” This phrase refers to the 4th-century-B.C. Greek philosopher Diogenes’s response to the question of whether motion is real — he got up and walked. “It is solved by walking.” As it turns out, there are many other problems and paradoxes to which walking is the solution. For instance:…
Gone are the days of just reminding kids to look both ways before crossing the street. Thanks to modern technology, the non-profit Safe Kids Worldwide says they now also need to be reminded to look up — that is, away from the screens of electronic devices. It’s a reminder that could save their lives this back-to-school season,…
Everyone in Los Angeles has a ridiculous story about driving somewhere when two feet would have worked just as well. Mine features a celebrity. I once interviewed John Travolta at Paramount Pictures for an entertainment magazine, and when it came time for us to move from his trailer to the shooting location, a limo was…
Obesity is more deadly than previously thought, but a nationwide survey shows that after rising for decades, rates have not increased for the first time in 30 years. In the latest “F as in Fat” report, released annually by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, only one state, Arkansas, showed an increase in…
Exercise and Memory Steady exercise may improve memory, even after it has begun to decline THE QUESTION Exercise is touted as helping healthy adults stay that way, both physically and mentally. Might it also help people whose memory and other cognitive abilities have started to decline? THIS STUDY included 35 adults who averaged in their mid- to…
You can thank a little molecule called BAIBA for exercise’s health benefits. A new study in the journal Cell Metabolism shows that levels of the molecule BAIBA — short for beta-aminoisobutyric acid — increase during exercise, and this particular molecule increases the expression of calorie-burning genes in fat cells. In addition, rising levels of BAIBA…
Rates Fall Among Low-Income Preschoolers The problem of childhood obesity, long among the country’s most intractable and vexing health issues, is at last showing signs of turning the corner. The obesity rate for low-income preschool-age children declined between 2008 and 2011 in 19 of 43 states and territories measured, federal data showed on Tuesday. This…
