Health and Fitness for Monday November 29, 2010

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How to sneak exercise into holiday plans HOUSTON (UPI) -- The holidays create extra duties and extra calories, but U.S. experts suggest exercise be added to everyone's holiday to-do list. Karen Basen-Engquist, a professor in The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, suggests in addition to the usual recommendations to incorporate daily exercise such as using the lunch break to take brisk walk, scheduling workouts in advance and enlisting a friend or partner to walk with you during the holidays, break up 30 minutes of daily exercise into three 10-minute or two 15-minute chunks. For example, park far from the entrance or if taking the bus or train, get off a stop or two early to add some extra walking. "For walking to count as exercise, you should be a little out of breath and feel your heart beating a little faster," Basen-Engquist says in a statement. "You should be able to talk in short sentences, but not sing holiday songs." When shopping, carry purchases instead of using a shopping cart because this increases heart pumping and strengthens muscles, Basen-Engquist says. Cleaning the house by vacuuming, mopping, scrubbing, gardening and even taking multiple trips upstairs to put away laundry or holiday decorations all count as physical activity, Basen-Engquist says. "The most important thing is to get your heart rate up at a consistent level," Basen-Engquist says. "You should sustain the activity for at least 10 minutes without stopping." Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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High alpha-carotene linked to longer life ATLANTA (UPI) -- High blood levels of the antioxidant alpha-carotene -- found in produce -- may reduce the risk of premature death, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Chaoyang Li of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and colleagues assessed the relationship between alpha-carotene and the risk of death among 15,318 adults age 20 and older in a study that ran from 1988 to 1994 with follow-ups through 2006. A total of 3,810 of the participants died over the course of the study. The researchers found that compared with those with blood alpha-carotene levels between 0 and 1 micrograms per deciliter, the risk of death during the study period was 23 percent lower among who had concentrations between 2 and 3 micrograms per deciliter, 27 percent lower with levels between 4 and 5 micrograms per deciliter, 34 percent lower with levels between 6 and 8 micrograms per deciliter and 39 percent lower with levels of 9 micrograms per deciliter or higher. Alpha-carotene is chemically similar to beta-carotene but may be more effective at inhibiting the growth of cancer cells in the brain, liver and skin, the researchers say. The results support increasing fruit and vegetable consumption as a way of preventing premature death and a need for clinical research into the health benefits of alpha-carotene, the researchers say. The study's findings were published online ahead of the March issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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U.S. cholera vaccine stockpile recommended CHEVY CHASE, Md. (UPI) -- The United States should stockpile cholera vaccines for deployment worldwide, U.S. and South Korean vaccine and infectious disease specialists say. In an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Matthew Waldor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Peter Hotez of George Washington University and the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and John Clemens of the International Vaccine Institute in South Korea say safe and reasonably effective vaccines are available but in short supply. The risk of a cholera outbreak can rise rapidly in the wake of a man-made or natural disaster, such as in Haiti, when populations can be forced into overcrowded camps with poor sanitation. A ready supply of vaccine could limit the impact of an outbreak dramatically, but there are fewer than 400,000 total doses of oral cholera vaccines available for shipment from their manufacturers, making it impossible to consider large-scale vaccination of at-risk populations with the recommended two- or three-dose regimens of either product, the experts say. "The costs of maintaining a stockpile of several million doses of cholera vaccine in the United States would be low but the humanitarian and diplomatic benefits would be enormous," the authors say in the editorial. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Researchers: Sugar tempers temper COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -- Consuming sugar may make people sweeter-tempered and less prone to violence, multiple U.S. studies suggest. In one study, subjects were given lemonade sweetened either with sugar or an artificial substitute, Postmedia News reported. Researchers found those who had drunk sugared lemonade were less likely to act aggressively in a confrontation with a stranger shortly afterward. Other researchers have looked at a potential link between diabetes and aggression. They say diabetics have low glucose levels, and glucose helps with self control. Researchers also found that states with high rates of diabetes have higher levels of violent crime. They say the correlation holds when poverty and other factors are taken into account. "When most people think about diabetes and people with trouble metabolizing glucose, they think of it as only harming the individual," said Brad Bushman, a professor at Ohio State University, who was involved in the research. "But this research shows it can also harm society." Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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