Study Shows Those With Anxiety Disorder Less Able To Regulate Response To Negative Emotions

February 12, 2010

People with generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD, have abnormalities in the way their brain unconsciously controls emotions. That’s the conclusion of a new Stanford University School of Medicine study, and the study authors say the findings could open up new avenues for treatments and change our understanding of how emotion is regulated in everyday life…

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Two Studies Explore The Consequences Of Not Reporting Sexual Abuse

January 21, 2010

Half of sexual abuse survivors wait up to five years before disclosing they were victimized, according to a collaborative study from the Université de Montréal, the Universite du Quebec a Montreal and the Universite de Sherbrooke published in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry…

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A Role For Calcium In Taste Perception

January 11, 2010

Calcium may not come to mind when you think of tasty foods, but in a study appearing in the January 8 issue of JBC, Japanese researchers have provided the first demonstration that calcium channels on the tongue are the targets of compounds that can enhance taste. In addition to molecules that directly trigger specific taste buds (salty, sweet etc…

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Having A Snack Attack: U.S. Obesity Epidemic Related To Its Easy Accessibility In Retail Stores

December 31, 2009

A new study shows that candy, salty snacks and sweetened beverages, which have been implicated as contributing to the obesity epidemic, are widely available in retail stores whose primary merchandise is not food…

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It’s time to do that deep breathing and go for a hike … if you want to live to a 100.

December 28, 2009

Emotionally Stable People Live Longer

The secret to a long life is actually pretty simple, according to recent research from the National Institute on Aging.

After tracking more than 2,300 people for more than 50 years, researchers there found that calm and active people lived longer than their counterparts.

These findings came from data collected by the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging – the oldest running study on aging – and were published in the July/August issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

The most recent findings looked at the link between personality traits of people and their lifespan. The data showed that certain personality traits were definitively linked to a longer life, including emotional stability, organization, discipline, conscientiousness and resourcefulness.

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Health education home-based program in females with fibromyalgia: A pilot study.

December 22, 2009

Health education home-based program in females with fibromyalgia: A pilot study.

J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil. 2009 Jan 1;22(2):99-105

Authors: Ayan C, Alvarez MJ, Alonso-Cortés B, Barrientos MJ, Valencia M, Martín V

The objective of this study was to assess the long- and short-term effects of a multimodal program, specifically designed to be carried out by fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) patients themselves, after a 12-week period of learning. Thirty female FMS patients volunteered for the study. The learning phase consisted on twelve weekly sessions of an hour, combining muscular resistance and flexibility exercises with techniques of breathing and relaxing, plus a half-hour incentive physiotherapy session. Flexibility, illness impact and pain were assessed at the beginning of the study, at the end of the learning phase and six months afterwards (follow-up). Twenty-one patients completed the programme. At the end of the learning phase, the improvement in the patients’ physical condition was significant, as was the impact of the illness. Thirty-three percent of the patients continued training during the follow-up period and kept up the improvements achieved. The self-controlled multimodal programme was efficient in improving flexibility and reducing the impact of the illness in women fibromyalgia patients. However, adherence was poor when patients had to exercise on their own.

PMID: 20023337 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Home-Based Child Care Is Meeting Nutritional Standards Although Widespread Use Of TV Is A Concern

December 16, 2009

A large study of family child care providers shows that while nutrition standards are often met, most children ages 2 to 5 are not getting enough physical activity and are exposed to the television for most of the day…

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Report Says Children Are Still Bombarded With Television Ads For Unhealthy Food Choices

December 16, 2009

A new study released in Washington, D.C., criticizes the nation’s food and beverage industry for failing to shift their marketing efforts aimed at children. The report said television advertising continues to contribute to epidemic levels of obesity, despite industry promises of reform…

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Physicians Knowledge Of Childhood Food Allergies Lacking

December 11, 2009

With an estimated four to six percent of children in the U.S. suffering from food allergies, a new study shows that pediatricians and family physicians aren’t always confident they have the ability to diagnose or treat food allergies. A study published in the January 2010 issue of Pediatrics and headed by Dr. Ruchi Gupta, M.D., M.P.H…

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