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Study: Only a Third of Americans Aware of Exercise Recommendations
Only a third of Americans could identify national recommendations for minimum daily physical activity of 30 minutes, despite more than a decade of publicity campaigns, according to research led by a Duke University professor.
Consistent with other studies, researchers also found that fewer than half of all Americans meet the 1995 recommendations issued by the Centers for Disease Control and American College of Sports Medicine.
Increasing the number of Americans who follow the recommendations could help reduce chronic health problems, said Gary Bennett, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke and lead author of the study. Read the rest of this entry »
Children with headache
Family quarrels and a lack of free time can promote headaches in children. This is what Jennifer Gassmann and her coauthors concluded in their study on risk factors, which appears in the current issue of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.
This investigation was a component of a large-scale study entitled “Children, Adolescents, and Headache” (Kinder, Jugendliche und Kopfschmerz—KiJuKo), in which data were collected in four annual “waves” from 2003 to 2006. Out of a multitude of variables tested in the larger study, the authors chose to look at the ones that concerned the children’s family and leisure time. Up to 30% of all children around the world complain of headache symptoms arising at least once per week.
Boys who experienced more than one family quarrel per week had a 1.8 times higher risk of developing headaches. The amount of free time available to them seemed to be even more important: boys who only sometimes had time to themselves had a 2.1 times higher risk of developing headaches. Read the rest of this entry »
MU fitness expert creates MyActivity Pyramid to help adults exercise
The MyActivity Pyramid, a new fitness guide developed by a University of Missouri Extension fitness specialist, provides physical activity recommendations for adults in a fun and easy-to-understand format.
“The MyActivity Pyramid offers a visual representation of the new physical activity guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the recommended amounts and type of activities for improved health and fitness,” said Steve Ball, associate professor of exercise physiology in the College of Human Environmental Sciences. “The pyramid offers a variety of ways that adults can achieve these recommendations to improve their health and quality of life.” Read the rest of this entry »