Fitness Blog’s: The Week in Review Sept 23-29
It’s been a terrifically busy week here in the Fitness blog and you’d think after 10 months of talking about fitness, I’d be tired of it, but I’m far from that date. We’re winding September down and we’re heading into October.
About 25% of patients who have open gastric bypass surgery develop incisional hernias. These lead to serious complications. Holding the incision closed with a polypropylene mesh can prevent these hernias.A small, randomised clinical trial reported today in BJS studied 74 seriously obese patients who had a gastric bypass. Polypropylene mesh was used to help close the incision in 34 patients, while 36 patients received standard sutures alone. [click link for full article]
OREXIGENâ„¢ Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held clinical-stage neuroscience company developing novel strategic approaches to the treatment of obesity, today announced that top line results for the company’s lead obesity compound, Contraveâ„¢, demonstrated significant advantages in weight loss in a 24-week multi-center, placebo-controlled phase III trial; the trial will continue unblinded for an additional 24 weeks. [click link for full article]
OREXIGEN(TM) Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held clinical-stage neuroscience company developing novelstrategic approaches to the treatment of obesity, today announced that topline results for the company’s lead obesity compound, Contrave(TM),demonstrated significant advantages in weight loss in a 24-weekmulti-center, placebo-controlled phase III trial; the trial will continueunblinded for an additional 24 weeks. [click link for full article]
You’ve spent the better part of a year watching your belly grow and expand. You’ve loosened the waistband on your pants, invested in new clothes and finally, the momentous day arrived and you have your baby. As we discussed in Post-Natal Fitness: So You Just Had a Baby….
I should probably title this piece, I’m a non-smoker, but I’m not there yet – mentally. I still feel that urge to have a cigarette.
Abdominal obesity increased more than 65 percent among boys and almost 70 percent among girls between 1988 and 2004. The finding of growing girth is significant because abdominal obesity has emerged as a better predictor of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes risk than the more commonly used Body Mass Index, a weight to height ratio that can sometimes be misleading. [click link for full article]
BRISBANE, Australia (UPI) — Picture-book reading not only encourages
reading development in children but also teaches toddlers about the
world, says a U.S. and Australian study.
Good morning! It’s two days after Thanksgiving and you are likely feeling like you overindulged Turkey Day. You may have compounded that with some over doing it in the shopping arena yesterday.
For the 170,000 morbidly obese patients who undergo bariatric surgery each year in the U.S., the stomach-reducing procedure is just the first step back to health and self-esteem.”Massive post-surgical weight loss leaves most with unsightly excess folds of skin and fat, and in some ways the patient can actually look worse, not better,” notes Dr. Jason A. [click link for full article]