Health and Fitness for Friday April 1, 2011

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Religiosity, spirituality impact health DENVER (UPI) -- A person's religiosity and spirituality independently predicts health outcomes after a collective traumatic event like Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. researchers say. Daniel N. McIntosh, a professor of psychology at University of Denver; Michael J. Poulin, assistant professor of psychology at the University at Buffalo and E. Alison Holman, assistant professor of nursing science, at the University of California at Irvine, collected data from a representative sample of 890 adults before Sept. 11, 2001. The subjects' health, religiosity and spirituality were assessed six times over a three-year period. "Across that time span, with numerous controls, religiosity and spirituality were found to be independently and differentially related to mental and physical health, so they are not interchangeable indices of religion," Poulin says in a statement. The study found following Sept. 11, 2001, religious individuals -- those who participated in religious social structures such as attending services -- had a higher positive affect, fewer unwanted intrusive thoughts and lower risk of new onset mental and musculoskeletal ailments versus those who expressed no religious or spiritual proclivities. However, those who were high in spirituality -- feeling a personal commitment to spiritual or religious beliefs -- had a higher positive effect, lower odds of new onset infectious ailments and more cognitive intrusions, but a more rapid decline in intrusions over time. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Adults, children at risk for blood clots CHICAGO (UPI) -- Deep vein thrombosis -- a blood clot -- poses a risk for everyone, not just for travelers on long flights, U.S. radiologists warn. Dr. Suresh Vedantham, an interventional radiologist and professor of radiology and surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, says patients and their doctors need to be aware that in the United States alone about 600,000 people are hospitalized with deep vein thrombosis each year and more than 100,000 people die of resulting pulmonary embolism -- blood clot in the lung. "Deep vein thrombosis -- sometimes called economy class syndrome -- is not just a one-time complication from taking a long plane ride. It affects men, women and the elderly -- even children -- whether or not they travel," Vedantham told the Society of Interventional Radiology's 36th annual scientific meeting in Chicago. In addition to long plane flights, the risk for deep vein thrombosis include prolonged immobility, recent surgery or major injury, hormone therapy, use of birth control pills, current or recent pregnancy, cancer and obesity. The most serious complication is when a blood clot breaks off and travels to the lung where it can become trapped, blocking the oxygen supply, causing heart failure, which can be fatal, Vedantham says. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Similar nursing competencies for LPN, RN WASHINGTON (UPI) -- There is a similarity of professional competency for both two-year and four-year nurses, a policy brief by the American Association of Community Colleges says. The brief analyzes the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses and weighs in on a decades-long debate about whether the bachelor's degree in nursing should be the required threshold for entry to practice. Although there are assertions that four-year nurses are better skilled, the brief underscores both programs do comparable jobs at preparing nurses for licensing. In 2009, 88.7 percent of bachelor's degree holders passed the nursing license exam and 86.6 percent of associate degree nurses passed, the brief says. The policy also notes that employers are equally likely to hire associate and bachelor's degree educated registered nurses, but a greater number of associate degree nurses are employed full time at 68.4 percent and those with a bachelor's degree at 64.2 percent. Walter G. Bumphus, president of AACC, says on average, it will cost a nursing student $6,120 in tuition for an associate degree in nursing at a community college, $16,648 for an associate degree in nursing at a public four-year college and $28,080 for bachelor's degree at a public four-year college. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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To lose weight, stop grazing, eat protein WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) -- An English breakfast and two other square meals a day, with lots of protein, may be key for those losing weight to feel full, U.S. researchers say. Heather J. Leidy of the University of Missouri, a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue for this study, said 27 obese and overweight men were divided into a high-protein consuming group and a normal-protein consuming group, but all ate a calorie-restricted diet for 12 weeks -- 750 calories less than their normal diet -- an average of about 2,400 calories per person a day. The normal-protein diet was composed of 14 percent protein, 60 percent from carbohydrate and 26 percent from fat, while the high-protein diet had the same amount of fat, but 25 percent of energy from protein and 49 percent from carbohydrate. "We found that when eating high amounts of protein, men who were trying to lose weight felt fuller throughout the day; they also experienced a reduction in late-night desire to eat and had fewer thoughts of food," Leidy said in a statement. "We also found that despite the common trend of eating smaller, more frequent meals, eating frequency had relatively no beneficial impact on appetite control." The research was funded by the National Pork Board, the American Egg Board, the Purdue Ingestive Behavior Research Center and the National Institutes of Health's Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. The findings are published in the journal Obesity. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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