Exercise prescription for weight management

Weight Management and Exercise for Cancer Survivors.

Obesity may contribute to development and recurrence of cancer, as well as cancer-related and all-cause mortality. This risk factor is also among the most preventable causes of cancer. This article describes current evidence-based guidelines for weight management and physical activity for cancer survivors. The authors also discuss practical interventions to help survivors undertake behavioral c...

Considerations for an Exercise Prescription

The development of an effective exercise prescription for long-duration space flight depends on the identification and understanding of various characteristics of the physiological response to muscular work in microgravity. We need to establish the optimum combination of intensity, duration, frequency, and mode of exercise that will be required to maintain normal cardiovascular reflexes, fluide...

Exercise on Prescription . Effect

Statin and exercise prescription.

Peter Kokkinos and colleagues (Feb 2, p 394) describe the interactive eff ects of fi tness and statins on mortality risk in veterans with dyslipidaemia. They report that increasing physical activity and statins independently lowers lipid levels and total mortality, but that the combination of these interventions is superior to either alone. The authors conclude that prescription of physical act...

Exercise prescription: a case for standardised reporting.

BACKGROUND Structured, regular exercise is recommended to improve health outcomes. Exercise takes many forms and varies in type, intensity, duration and frequency. The authors used the example of exercise for chronic health conditions to examine how exercise programmes are described and summarised in systematic reviews. METHODS Two independent reviewers conducted a review of exercise reportin...