News tagged with caloric expenditure


Wii Fit a promising tool for all ages

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While some emerging technologies can create environments that require very little physical effort, one Kansas State University researcher thinks games like Nintendo's Wii Fit can help promote physical rather than sedentary ...


Study: Morbidly obese sedentary for more than 99 percent of day

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created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study appearing in Clinical Cardiology examines the average fitness level of the morbidly obese (body mass indexes between 40.0 and 49.9). The findings show that the tested population was sedentary for more than 99 per ...





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Study finds that infections are common in ICUs worldwide

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international study that examined the extent of infections in nearly 1,300 intensive care units (ICUs) in 75 countries found that about 50 percent of the patients were considered infected, with infection associated with ...


Preventing repeat strokes -- are survivors taking their medicine?

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Since 1999, stroke survivors have been advised to use aspirin, prescription antiplatelet agents, or prescription anticoagulants to help avoid another stroke. Many large surveys of the U.S. population have reported the use ...


Sugary cola drinks linked for first time to higher risk of gestational diabetes

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's ...


Osteoarthritis increases aggregate health care expenditures by $186 billion annually

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Osteoarthritis (OA), a highly prevalent disease, raised aggregate annual medical care expenditures in the U.S. by $185.5 billion according to researchers from Stony Brook University. Insurers footed $149.4 billion of the ...


Scientists find new link between insulin and core body temperature

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created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a direct link between insulin—a hormone long associated with metabolism and metabolic disorders such as diabetes—and core body temperature. While ...


ICT fails to accelerate drug approvals

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created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drug approvals are taking just as long as they ever did despite increased expenditure on new information technology at the Food and drug Administration. So says a statistical analysis of approval intervals from 1997 to 2006, ...


Scientists find molecular trigger that helps prevent aging and disease

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to address a question that has been challenging scientists for years: How do dietary restriction—and the reverse, overconsumption—produce protective effects against aging ...


Study finds bees can learn differences in food's temperature

Study finds bees can learn differences in food's temperature

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that honeybees can discriminate between food at different temperatures, an ability that may assist bees in locating the warm, sugar-rich nectar or high-protein pollen ...


Playing active video games can equal moderate intensity exercise

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Active Wii sports video games and some Wii fit activities may increase adults' energy expenditure as much as moderately intense exercise, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ...


Government's NHS Plan linked to striking improvements in critical care

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survival among patients in intensive care units in England has improved significantly since the implementation of the NHS Plan in 2000, finds new research published in BMJ today.



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