Background A number of commercial diet and exercise programs are promoted to help people lose weight and improve fitness. However, few studies have compared the effects of following different types of exercise and diet interventions on weight loss. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of a more structured meal plan based diet intervention and supervised exercise program that in...

1 Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2 Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 3 College of Physical Sciences–Chemistry, Trace Element Speciation Laboratory, Meston Walk, University of Aberdeen, Aber...

B Y D . J O E MILLWARD' , J O A N N A L . BOWTELL2.3, P A U L PACY3 A N D M I C H A E L J . R E N N I E 2 * 3 lNutritiona1 Metabolism Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH =Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Dundee, Dundee DDI 4HN 3Nutritional Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, St Pancras Hospital, 4 S...

Exercise is recognized as one of the optimal managements for chronic low back pain. Among the numerous therapeutic exercises, the approaches of traditional strengthening exercise and segmental stabilization exercise are considerably different. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the two different exercise approaches, on chronic low back pain through evaluating previous...

BACKGROUND Effective strategies for the primary prevention of low back pain (LBP) remain elusive with few large-scale clinical trials investigating exercise and education approaches. The purpose of this trial was to determine whether core stabilization alone or in combination with psychosocial education prevented incidence of low back pain in comparison to traditional lumbar exercise. METHODS...

Wataru Aoi, Yuji Naito, Katsura Mizushima, Yoshikazu Takanami, Yukari Kawai, Hiroshi Ichikawa, and Toshikazu Yoshikawa Laboratory of Health Science, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University; Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Department of Preventive Medicine for Health Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine; and Department of Me...

JANUSZ ŚMIGIELSKI1, JOANNA RUSZKOWSKA2, WALERIAN PIOTROWSKI3, MARIA POLAKOWSKA3, WOJCIECH BIELECKI4, WOJCIECH HANKE5, and WOJCIECH DRYGAS2,3 1 Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland Department of Geriatrics, Healthy Ageing Research Centre (HARC) 2 Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland Department of Preventive Medicine 3 Institute of Cardiology, Warszawa, Poland Department of Epidemiology, ...

BACKGROUND Hospital clerkships are considered crucial for acquiring competencies such as diagnostic reasoning and clinical skills. The actual learning process in the hospital remains poorly understood. This study investigates how students learn clinical skills in workplaces and factors affecting this. METHODS Six focus group sessions with 32 students in Internal Medicine rotation (4-9 student...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the acute hormone response to exercise differed between low intensity blood flow restricted resistance exercise and traditional high-intensity resistance exercise in college-aged women. A total of 13 healthy women (aged 18-25 yrs), who were taking oral contraceptives, volunteered for this randomized crossover study. Subjects performed a session...

Aerobic exercise training and diet are recommended for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommends that adults with prediabetes engage in ≥ 150 minutes per week of moderate activity and target a 7% weight loss. However, traditional moderate-intensity (MI) exercise training programs are often difficult to susta...