Archive for July 1st, 2010
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US programme ‘could help women lose post-baby weight’
Posted in Family Health
A programme being run in the US could help women to lose weight that they put on during pregnancy, the results of a study have suggested.
Researchers at Penn State University and the Institute for Children and Poverty, New York, found that those who enrolled in the US Department of Agriculture’s Women Infants and Children (WIC)….
Aerobic exercise ‘helps arthritis sufferers control weight’
Posted in Exercise
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) sufferers who want to lose weight can take part in aerobic exercise, as it has been proven to be safe for this group of patients.
Researchers from the University of Grenoble Medical School in France studied 1,040 RA patients and found that those who exercised regularly experienced improved function, less joint pain and….
