A new study has suggested that prostate cancer patients who take brisk walk on a regular basis fare better than those who do not.

It was reported by researchers that brisk walking not only reduces their risk for disease progression but also minimizes their chances of dying from the disease.

From news.yahoo.com:

The finding builds on earlier research from the same group of scientists that had indicated that “vigorous physical activity” reduces the risk of dying from prostate cancer.

“Men who engaged in brisk walking, defined as three miles per hour or faster, after a diagnosis of clinically localized prostate cancer, had a reduced risk of prostate cancer progression compared to men who walked at an easy pace [less than two miles per hour],” said study author Erin L. Richman, a research associate in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.

“Men who engaged in three hours per week or more of brisk walking had the greatest benefit,” Richman added, “with a 57 percent lower risk of disease progression compared to men who walked less than three hours per week at an easy pace. These results were independent of clinical prognostic factors, dietary factors and lifestyle factors such as obesity and smoking.”

The report of Richman appears in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research.

Loneliness could be as bad for your health as obesity, smoking, and alcoholism, according to a recently concluded study.

The study disclosed that the chances of living to a healthy old age increase by 50 percent with the support of family, friends, and neighbors.

From Dailymail.co.uk:

But the findings, based on an analysis of more than 300,000 people, suggest social isolation is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being an alcoholic.

It also does more damage to your health than not exercising – and is twice as harmful as obesity.

The American scientists who made the discovery say lack of social support should be added to the ‘short list’ of risk factors for an early grave.

Dr Julianne Holt-Lunstad, of Brigham Young University in Utah, who led the study, said friends and family influenced health for the better by offering a ‘calming touch’ or by helping people find meaning in their lives.

A spokesman for the journal PLoS Medicine, which published the study, remarked, ‘The idea that a lack of social relationships is a risk factor for death is still not widely recognised by health organisations and the public.’

A spokesman for the journal PLoS Medicine, which published the study, said: ‘The idea that a lack of social relationships is a risk factor for death is still not widely recognised by health organisations and the public.’

If you think that there is no cure for your obesity, it is time for you to think again and act right. In this video, Samrat Yadav, an EFT practitioner, talks about the psychological reversal technique that is an integral part of EFT (emotional freedom technique).

The studies suggest that an hour a day of exercise is enough to reduce fat. The exercise basically reduces the activity of gene “fatso” in teenagers.

From timesofindia.indiatimes.com:

Scientists are finding evidence that both lifestyle and genes causes obesity and they’re just learning how much diet and exercise can offset the inherited risk.

Exercising an hour or more daily made a big difference for the teens who were genetically predisposed to obesity. Their waist measurements, body mass index scores and body fat were the same, on average, as the other teenagers with regular genes. 

Also if the exercise is taken as an hour of your favorite sport will act the same. Exercise do significantly affect on those who are genetically predisposed to obesity.

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Adolescents and young adults are nurturing habits of imbalanced food that include too much unhealthy fat, according to a study conducted among school and college students in Delhi by scientists from the National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Disorders Foundation (NDOCDF) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

Dr Anoop Misra, lead scientist and director at Fortis Hospital’s department of diabetes and metabolic diseases, said that this unhealthy trend explains the higher prevalence of obesity and abdomen fat deposit in the Asian adolescent.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Consumption of harmful saturated fat and omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids was high among the students. But consumption of the healthy omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, or omega 3 PUFA, was low.

This is because a large part of the fat consumed was derived from semi-solid oil and cooking oil heated to high temperatures.

Both are used in the preparation of favourite snacks of students such as burgers, pastries patties, samosa and chhola bhatura.

” The students are in the habit of snacking. They study for an hour and then snack on biscuits and namkeen. They were also consuming ice creams and sugary items such as colas,” Shah said.

The intake of carbohydrates and proteins was, however, found to be within the prescribed limit.

Fat takes more time to get digested and gets deposited in the body, leading to obesity which results in hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.

Obesity and insulin resistance is now being reported often among Asian adolescents.

The study has been published in the Journal of American College of Nutrition.

The age-old mystery of why women store fat in their hips and men in their bellies has been answered.

It was found by a study that men are prone to numerous obesity-related diseases including diabetes and heart disease since visceral or belly fat has been associated with the complications. Women, on the other hand, are usually guarded from obesity-related disorders faced by men until menopause, according to UTSMC release.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

‘We found that out of about 40,000 mouse genes, only 138 are commonly found in both male and female fat cells,’ said Deborah Clegg, assistant professor of internal medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre (UTSMC) and senior study author.

‘This was completely unexpected. We expected the exact opposite – that 138 would be different and the rest would be the same between the sexes,’ Clegg added.

The study involved mice, which distribute their fat in a sexually dimorphic pattern similar to humans.

Sexual dimorphism is the systematic difference between individuals of different sex in the same species.

‘Given the difference in gene expression profiles, a female fat tissue won’t behave anything like a male fat tissue and vice versa,’ Clegg said. ‘The notion that fat cells between males and females are alike is inconsistent with our findings.’

In humans, men are more likely to carry extra weight around their guts while pre-menopausal women store it in their thighs and hips.

These findings appeared in the International Journal of Obesity.