Stepping out

Article Abstract:

Rockhampton, Queensland, will participate in a two-year, $800,000 study to determine if walking 10,000 steps each day (equivalent to about 1 hour and forty minutes of walking, or 8 km) can provide health benefits. Subjects will wear pedometers to measure their walking activity, which can be as little as 500 steps/day in some sedentary persons. Maria Fiatarone Singh of the University of Sydney claims that ageing is an exercise deficiency syndrome, and Wendy Brown of the University of Queensland says that physical inactivity is responsible for about the same burden of illness as smoking.

Australia, Science & research, Exercise, Walking, Queensland

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Hype and Hippocrates

Article Abstract:

Negative findings from health-related research are discussed, including the inefficacy of antioxidant supplements in staving off heart disease, the established correlation between oestrogen and stroke, the inefficacy of green tea at staving off stomach cancer, and the inefficacy of St. John's Wort at treating depression.

Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing, All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing, World, Drugs, Industrial organic chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Antioxidants, Research, Pharmaceutical industry, Column, Chemical industry, Antioxidants (Nutrients), Estrogen, Estrogens, St. John's wort, Hypericum, Polymer antioxidants (Additives), Green tea

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School of heart knocks

Article Abstract:

A report on the risks of habits leading to heart attacks or stroke and prevention by a different radical approach is given. Ways to determine what percentage of chance a person has of suffering from a stroke and calculating BMI is mentioned.

United States, Epilepsy & Muscle Disease R&D, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Research Programs, Care and treatment, Risk factors, Heart attack, Medicine, Experimental

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