If you’re an older adult, a 30-minute workout may not be as effective, even at the cellular level, as it was when you were younger.

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from ScienceDaily.com CLICK HERE According to a new study, age may play a significant role in a cell’s ability to respond to that activity. Tinna Traustadóttir of Northern Arizona University led the study, which was published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, a journal of the society for Redox Biology and Medicine. […]

Obesity Increases in U.S. Women, Study Finds

ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Jessica Ravitz of CNN HERE There doesn’t appear to be much headway being made in the battle to curb obesity in the United States, according to a pair of studies released Tuesday. Updated finding show that 35% of men, 40% of women and 17% of children and adolescents are obese, according to […]

Bigger Baby Bottles Linked to Weight Gain

ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Fox News HERE Babies who drink from large bottles early in life may be experience more weight gain by six months of age than infants who drink from smaller bottles, a study suggests. Starting when the babies were two months old, researchers tracked their weight based on the size of their bottles, […]

Learn more about the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board

The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board is one of the National Native Network’s partner agencies. Here is an introduction and promotional video explaining who they are.  Enjoy! For more information on the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board click here.  

Cigarette-pack warnings work better with photos

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Fox News CLICK HERE Gruesome pictures on cigarette packages may convince more smokers to quit, a U.S. study suggests. In a four-week experiment, researchers randomly assigned about 2,150 adult smokers to receive either text-only or photo-enhanced warnings on their cigarette packs. With pictures, smokers were 29 percent more likely to try […]

New Survey Finds 50 Percent of People Living with HIV in Michigan Smoke Cigarettes

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM MDHHS by Jennifer Eisner CLICK HERE For Immediate Release: June 3, 2016 LANSING, Mich. – In Michigan, 50 percent of people living with HIV and in HIV treatment are smokers, according to a new survey administered through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Tobacco Control Program (TCP). In […]

Detroit Ranks No. 21 for Average Fitbit Daily Steps

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Stephanie Steinberg of The Detroit News CLICK HERE DETROIT, Mich. — Marcia Varner’s bright yellow sneakers were laced up.  They didn’t exactly go with her black pencil skirt, but she wasn’t trying to make a fashion statement. About to pound the Detroit RiverWalk during a sunny lunch break, the Blue Cross […]

Throop to consider banning tobacco from parks and playgrounds

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Jeff Harvath from The Times-Tribune Smoking in borough parks, playgrounds and recreational areas soon may be banned. Council will consider adopting a new ordinance prohibiting the use of tobacco products at those locations during its June 13 meeting.  If passed, the ordinance would expand Throop’s existing ban on tobacco use in […]
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Chris Cooper Blog on Cancer Screening

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Cancer comes in all shapes and sizes.  It does not discriminate, and effects people from all walks of life.  I am only in my 40’s and have already been screened for various cancers due to illness.  Each time, I breathed a sigh of relief when the doctor told me that I did […]

Use of neighborhood environment can help overweight adolescents increase physical activity

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from Medical Xpress A program encouraging overweight or obese adolescents to increase their physical activity through use of their everyday environment, rather than organized classes or sports programs, produced significant increases in participants’ daily physical activity that were sustained for at least three to four months.  A report on a pilot study […]
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