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Armchair athletes can try the real thing DALLAS (UPI) -- If watching the Winter Olympics on TV is inspiration to start exercising more, armchair athletes need not wait for warmer weather, a U.S. Olympian says. Olympic champion runner Dr. Peter Snell, an exercise physiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, says people can easily find alternatives to a bracing outdoor workout, like joining a gym or fitness center, or walking inside a shopping mall. However, exercise outdoors is still possible in cold or wet weather if people have proper clothing that will protect from the wind chill. "You'll also need fabrics that keep moisture away from your body and that help keep heat from building up as your body temperature rises from the activity," Snell says in a statement. "If you're exercising vigorously, you may not even notice the cold." Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Darker side of figure skating CHICAGO (UPI) -- The control and perfectionism of Olympic figure skating can have a darker side, a U.S. psychiatrist who specializes in eating disorders says. Dr. Kimberly Dennis, medical director at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, says in a two-part column on DailyStrength.org that a former national champion figure skater estimates some 80 percent of national level competitors suffer with eating disorders or serious body image issues. Aesthetic sports like figure skating and gymnastics often sanction behaviors more consistent with eating disorders than healthy living, and some competitors may suffer lifelong physical and psychiatric complications, Dennis says. Olympic athletes also project an unrealistic body image that influences younger competitors and the public watching on television, she says. "Olympic figure skaters will get lots of attention for their artistry and technical skill, and much will be said about their stories of hard work and sacrifice," Dennis says in a statement. "Viewers should also realize how unrealistic the images they see on TV are, and how severe are the costs paid by many of those women to achieve those results." Dennis says figure skating officials have increased the likelihood of competitors developing anorexia or bulimia by implementing scoring standards that increasingly emphasize technically complex jumps and spins that defy laws of gravity. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Doctors: 21 percent of medicine defensive WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Physicians who say they practice defensive medicine in the last 12 months characterized 21 percent of their practice as defensive, a U.S. study indicated. The study by Gallup for Jackson Healthcare found physicians generally estimate defensive medicine costs are higher overall when compared to their own personal practice. Physicians attribute an average of 26 percent of overall costs to defensive medicine, while 13 percent said they believe the practice constitutes 50 percent or more of the cost, the study found. Of the physicians surveyed, 73 percent agreed they had practiced some form of defensive medicine in the past 12 months. Twenty-three percent of practicing physicians estimated defensive medicine constitutes less than 10 percent of their practice while 29 percent estimated the percentage to be between 10 percent and 25 percent. Defensive medicine was defined as "the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily not to ensure the health of the patient but as a safeguard against possible malpractice liability." Results are based on telephone interviews -- conducted in December and January -- with 462 randomly selected U.S. physicians. No further survey details were provided. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Autism symptoms not present at six months SACRAMENTO (UPI) -- Symptoms of autism -- a lack of shared eye contact, smiling and communicative babbling -- are not present at six months, U.S. researchers found. Lead author Sally Ozonoff, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a researcher with the University of California-Davis MIND Institute, said the symptoms emerge gradually and only become apparent during the latter part of the first year of life. The researchers conducted the study over five years by painstakingly counting each instance of smiling, babbling and eye contact during examinations until the children were age 3. The study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, found that by age 12 months the two groups' development had diverged significantly. Intentional social and communicative behavior among children developing normally increased while infants later diagnosed with autism decreased dramatically, the study said. "This study provides an answer to when the first behavioral signs of autism become evident," Ozonoff said in a statement. "Contrary to what we used to think, the behavioral signs of autism appear later in the first year of life for most children with autism." Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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