Exercise Programs for Kids Seem to Have Little ... - Fitness News

THURSDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Formal physical exercise programs for children have only a small impact on overall activity and thus on weight loss, British researchers report.

Their study raises questions about the best ways to help children attain or maintain a healthy weight.

"Physical activity interventions are not increasing physical activity sufficiently to impact on the body mass or body fat of children," said lead researcher Brad Metcalf, of the department of endocrinology and metabolism at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry in Plymouth, England. "It is in everyone's interest to find something that works effectively," he added.

But other experts said instead of dismissing organized interventions as ineffective, policymakers should conclude that still more is needed to stem childhood obesity. In the United States, about 17 percent of children aged 2 years and older are obese.

"I disagree that the importance of physical activity to childhood obesity control, or health promotion, has been called into question by this study," said Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center in New Haven, Conn.

On the contrary, "we have cause to question if we are doing enough to make routine activity the cultural norm, so that such programming can achieve greater effects," Katz said. "An intervention, no matter how good, can only achieve so much if not surrounded by cultural supports."

Katz also faulted the study for not including data from the many studies that show a significant benefit from exercise.

For the study, published in the Sept. 27 online edition of the BMJ, the researchers analyzed 30 studies conducted between 1990 and 2012 involving children aged 16 and under.

This type of study, known as a meta-analysis, is used to find common threads running through multiple studies. Problems with this type of analysis can arise from the weakness of any of the studies included and the difficulty of combining disparate data.

Unlike some other studies of children's activity, these studies measured actual movement during children's waking hours using accelerometers and didn't rely on questionnaires.

Eight of the 30 studies included only overweight or obese children. One U.S. study followed more than 700 children, average age 11, taking part in 90 minutes of after-school physical activity three times a week. Another involved more than 250 Scottish nursery school children who did 30 minutes of physical activity three times a week.

Overall, the researchers said the programs achieved "small-to-negligible" increases in children's total activity with small improvements in time spent in moderate or vigorous intensities -- about four minutes' walking or running per day.

This could have only a minimal effect on weight, they concluded.

"It's been shown by others that four minutes extra walking/running is only associated with a 2 millimeter difference in waist circumference," Metcalf said. While the added activity sessions might offer other benefits, including better coordination, improved ability at a sport, team participation and genuine enjoyment, they won't "have a meaningful impact on obesity prevention," he said.

These programs may not work because they might replace physically demanding after-school activities that take place outdoors and last for longer periods, the researchers said. It's also possible that children eat more after these sessions, they noted.

Mark Hamer, from the department of epidemiology and public health at University College London and co-author of an accompanying journal editorial, said the study has limitations but "provides the best evidence to date on the effectiveness of physical activity interventions in childhood."

Better approaches to increasing children's physical activity are needed, Hamer said. Perhaps physical changes to the indoor and outdoor environment can facilitate activity, he suggested.

He and others maintain that a wealth of evidence supports the association between an active lifestyle and better health.

Samantha Heller, exercise physiologist and clinical nutrition coordinator at the Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn., pointed out that programs that aim to boost children's activity levels may not influence sedentary behavior at home or once the programs conclude.

Also, "many interventions do not include a nutrition component that could impact food choices, overall nutrition or calorie intake," she said.

School environments need to shift toward a more active day for kids, Heller said. "We need to continue to develop programs, environments and classes that encourage and educate children and teens on the importance of exercise and physical activity in ways that are meaningful and fun for them," she added.

More information

For more information on childhood obesity, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

SOURCES: Brad Metcalf, statistician and researcher, department of endocrinology and metabolism, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, England; Mark Hamer, Ph.D., department of epidemiology and public health, University College London, England; Samantha Heller, M.S., R.D., exercise physiologist, clinical nutrition coordinator, Center for Cancer Care, Griffin Hospital, Derby, Conn.; David Katz, M.D., M.P.H., director, Yale University Prevention Research Center, New Haven, Conn.; Sept. 27, 2012, BMJ, online

Copyright ? 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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Losing ground in Ohio, Romney says his "heart aches" for jobless

BEDFORD HEIGHTS/BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (Reuters) - The race for president focused squarely on the battle for working-class votes on Wednesday, as Republican Mitt Romney scrambled to make up ground on Democratic President Barack Obama in the crucial battleground state of Ohio.

On a day when the rivals held dueling events across the state, Romney mixed empathy for the unemployed - at one point, he said his "heart aches" for the jobless - with attacks on Obama's trade policy toward China. Foreign trade is a sensitive subject in a state where thousands of manufacturing jobs have gone overseas.

Romney's cause was made more urgent by a new Quinnipiac University/New York Times poll that indicated Obama led the former Massachusetts governor by 10 percentage points in Ohio and was ahead by similar margins in two other important states - Florida and Pennsylvania. Other troubling signs: Obama held nearly a 20-point lead in Florida among women, while Romney's lead among men had dwindled to 3 points.

Ohio and Florida are politically divided states central to Romney's hopes to amass the 270 electoral votes needed for victory in the November 6 election. Losing either state could be disastrous for the Republican, who trailed Obama in the nationwide Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll of likely voters by 49 to 43 percent.

The Quinnipiac survey suggested that Romney, who was trailing Obama by a smaller margin at the beginning of last week, had been significantly damaged by the disclosure of a secretly taped video of his remarks at a private fundraiser in May.

In the video, Romney - a former private equity executive with a fortune estimated at up to $250 million - tells wealthy donors to his campaign that 47 percent of Americans are "victims" who depend on government, do not pay federal income taxes and are unlikely to support him.

The airing of the comments last week sent Romney's campaign into crisis mode. Democrats were quick to point out that the "47 percent" to whom Romney referred - those who receive some form of government benefits - included not just the poor but working-class families, members of the military and the elderly, some of whom Romney has depended upon for support.

So in a sense, Romney's bus tour in Ohio this week has had the feel of a damage-control operation.

At a stop in Westerville, Romney told an enthusiastic crowd: "I've been across the country. My heart aches for the people I've seen.

"There are so many people in our country that are hurting right now," he said. "I want to help them. I know what it takes to get an economy going again and creating jobs."

Romney also took aim at Obama, chiding him for not labeling China as a "currency manipulator," and blaming the president for not creating more jobs.

"You can be extraordinarily eloquent and describe all the wonderful things you can do," Romney said, clearly referring to Obama. "But when you cut through the words, you can look at the record. And when you can see policies that have not created jobs America needs, then you know it's time to choose a new leader."

Romney fought back against claims by Obama's campaign that the Republican's proposed across-the-board 20 percent tax cut would benefit mostly the wealthy.

Romney also said his plan might not significantly lower tax bills for many Americans because unspecified tax deductions would be cut.

"By the way, don't be expecting a huge cut in taxes," Romney said, "because I'm also going to be closing loopholes on deductions."

OBAMA MOCKS ROMNEY'S 'NEWFOUND OUTRAGE'

Romney has criticized Obama as not being tough enough in pushing back against Chinese trade practices that have led to cheap goods flooding the U.S. market and killing American jobs.

Obama, who spoke at two state universities in Ohio on Wednesday, lashed back at Romney on China trade and reinforced the Democrats' message that Romney, in his job at Bain Capital, sometimes cut U.S. jobs or sent them overseas.

"He's been talking tough on China," Obama said of Romney. "When you hear this newfound outrage, when you see these ads he's running promising to get tough on China, it feels a lot like that fox saying, 'You know, we need more secure chicken coops.' "

Ohio is a relatively challenging place for Romney's economic message. The state unemployment rate is 7.2 percent, below the national rate of 8.1 percent.

One in eight jobs in Ohio is linked to the automobile industry, and Obama's campaign has been reminding residents that he pushed through the government bailout that helped save the auto industry and thousands of jobs, while Romney opposed it.

NEW AD FOR ROMNEY

Romney's campaign amplified its message with a new ad featuring the candidate speaking directly into the camera.

"President Obama and I both care about poor and middle-class families," Romney says in the ad. "The difference is, my policies will make things better for them. We shouldn't measure compassion by how many people are on welfare."

Paul Ryan, Romney's vice presidential running mate, campaigned in Colorado, another battleground state where polls show Romney in a tight race with Obama.

He also bashed China - and attacked Obama on foreign policy, invoking the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis that contributed to Democratic President Jimmy Carter's failed re-election bid.

Romney and Ryan had campaigned together in Ohio on Tuesday.

It was their first appearance together in more than three weeks. Romney had drawn criticism from some Republicans for not campaigning more aggressively and spending much of the past two weeks behind closed doors, raising money and preparing for his October 3 debate against Obama.

Romney aides have promised he will be conduct a more active campaign.

(Additional reporting by Samuel P. Jacobs in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Patricia Zengerle in Washington; Writing by Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland; Editing by David Lindsey and Peter Cooney)

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Birmingham's Harris Early Learning Center donated to Auburn ...

AUBURN UNIVERSITY ? The Birmingham Urban Revitalization Partnership recently gifted the Harris Early Learning Center in Birmingham to Auburn University.

The gift, valued at $6.4 million, includes the building and contents, as well as an endowment for general maintenance. The Alabama Power Foundation will also continue its longtime support of the center.

"Auburn University now has a physical presence in downtown Birmingham from which our Extension and outreach mission can more effectively operate in one of the main population centers of the state," said Joe Pittman, head of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in Auburn's College of Human Sciences.

"It will invigorate our research program that has been ongoing in the center since its inception. It will give more undergraduate and graduate interns from a variety of disciplines opportunities to observe or work with young children in a state-of-the-art facility, or, depending on the discipline of the participating student, it could provide ideas for how to design, operate or otherwise improve such facilities for the future."

Business and civic leaders who make up the partnership joined forces with Human Development and Family Studies faculty in 1994 to provide parents working in the downtown Birmingham area with a high-quality child care facility. Auburn faculty helped design the center, as well as create a curriculum to educate and foster developing social and practical skills. The center's two directors are Ph.D.-level faculty from the Department of Human Development and Family Studies.

Located in Birmingham's Civil Rights District, the Harris Early Learning Center opened Aug. 25, 1995, with 65 children. In two years, it was serving 200, ranging in age from six weeks to five years. The center continues to attract approximately 200 children each year, some of whom remain a part of the enrollment until they leave for kindergarten. It is estimated that more than 2,500 youngsters have been served by the center so far.

Besides serving as a state-of-the-art child care center, it offers on-site apartments for students and faculty who need accommodations for overnight or long-term stays while conducting research or completing internships. It also offers parenting workshops and training for teachers and directors of other Birmingham metro centers.

As a model program for early childhood development and education, the center has welcomed professionals from across the country and around the world to assess the viability of replication in their own communities. It also receives a number of college students from throughout Alabama each year for internships.

The Harris Early Learning Center is named for Elmer and Glenda Harris, an Auburn University couple and early childhood education advocates who led the effort to obtain corporate sponsorship to build the center.

(Written by Amy Weaver.)

Contact: Harriet Giles, College of Human Sciences, (334) 844-3241, (gileshw@auburn.edu), or
Mike Clardy, Office of Communications and Marketing, (334) 844-9999 (clardch@auburn.edu)

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O-Issue 2012: Student health ? The Chicago Maroon

?Man needs difficulties,? Carl Jung once opined, ?they are necessary for health.?

If this is true, the biggest benefit you will get out of our campus?s healthcare providers might come from trying to schedule an appointment with them. Wait times have improved in the past several months, but the perennial student complaints continue. Meanwhile, although it has been nearly a year since all health-related services on campus were reorganized and consolidated, confusion continues to reign about where to go for what.

But this need not be the case. Here?s the basic rundown. All health and wellness programs on campus fall under the umbrella of Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS). SHCS, like the federal government (but with less squabbling over birth control), is divided into three branches: the Student Health Service (SHS), the Student Counseling Service (SCS) and Health Promotion and Wellness.

The Student Health Service, located in the dungeon-like Suite R-100 of the hospital?s Wyler Pavilion, is your appointment-only go-to for the basic preventative care and treatment covered by your Student Life Fee. In addition to visits with physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, SHS provides STD testing, Pap tests, flu and allergy shots, safer-sex products, and certain types of lab tests and physical therapy services. Nutrition, sports medicine, and travel health consultations are also available. If you have a bad cold or mysterious rash, give them a ring at (773) 702-4156, or (773) 702-1915 for after-hours advice from a nurse.

For more specialized care, you may have to look elsewhere, and be prepared to use your University Student Health Insurance Plan (U-SHIP) or private insurance to cover it. And if you are hemorrhaging blood or going into convulsions, hope your friends have the good sense to convey you to the emergency room.

The Student Counseling Service, housed across from the Main Quad at 5737 South University Avenue, is the University?s center for mental health care. After an initial intake appointment to discuss their needs, students may be referred to short-term individual or couples therapy, substance abuse treatment, medication management, academic assistance, or support groups, all covered by your Student Life Fee. If longer-term care is needed, expect to be given recommendations for outside clinicians. SCS also sponsors ?Let?s Talk,? informal and confidential counseling sessions offered several times a week and open to all. It can be reached at (773) 702-9800. If the office is closed, and it?s an emergency, call (773) 702-3625.

Finally, Health Promotion and Wellness exists to integrate body and spirit with the life of the mind. Their staff and Peer Health Educators (you can apply to be one yourself spring quarter) distribute information and advice on a variety of topics related to well-being, from anxiety management to better posture. A group of your peers will be in training to give free back rubs as the U of C?s first ?Stressbusters? team, starting this fall, too. They also promote the seemingly endless number of meditation workshops on campus; try them once, if only to experience what total silence in Rockefeller Chapel feels like.

Even University administrators have admitted that health services on campus are confusing and suffer from poor customer service and unacceptably long wait times. However, with the wealth of professional resources they have available, they are still your best bet for addressing physical and mental heath needs. So if you anticipate needing assistance, don?t hesitate to make an appointment with SCS or SHS?just try to call far in advance.

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Greek strike to test coalition government's mettle

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek workers on Wednesday hold their first major anti-austerity strike since a coalition government took power in June, grounding flights, disrupting local transport and shutting public service offices.

Called by the country's two biggest unions that represent half the work force, the walkout is expected to bring out thousands of Greeks to the streets to protest at a new round of belt-tightening demanded by EU and IMF lenders.

"We call on everyone to take part in the strike and resist the austerity measures that hurt Greek people and the economy," said unionist Despoina Spanou of the ADEDY labor group.

"This strike is only the beginning in our fight."

The traditional summer break has allowed the conservative-led government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to enjoy relative calm on the streets since coming to power.

But ADEDY and its private sector counterpart GSEE were predicting a big turnout on Wednesday to end the seasonal lull.

About 3,000 police - twice the number usually deployed - will stand guard in the center of Athens as authorities brace for the rioting that has marked past rallies. Athens last witnessed serious violence in February, when protesters set shops and banks ablaze as parliament approved an austerity bill.

Ships will stay docked, shops will pull down shutters and museums and monuments will be closed to visitors throughout the day on Wednesday. Air traffic controllers will walk off the job for three hours and hospitals will operate on emergency staff.

Much of the union anger is directed at spending cuts worth nearly 12 billion euros ($15.55 billion) over the next two years that Greece has promised the European Union and International Monetary Fund in an effort to unlock its next tranche of aid.

The bulk of those cuts are expected from slashing wages, pensions and welfare benefits, heaping a new wave of misery on Greeks who say repeated rounds of austerity have pushed them to the brink and failed to transform the country for the better.

A survey by the MRB polling agency last week showed that more than 90 percent of Greeks believe the planned cuts are unfair and burden the poor, with the vast majority expecting more austerity in coming years.

But with Greece facing certain bankruptcy and a potential euro zone exit without further aid, Samaras's government has little choice but to push through the unpopular measures, which have also exposed fissures in his fragile coalition.

With Greece in its fifth year of recession and no light at the end of the austerity tunnel, analysts warn that Greek patience is wearing thin and a strong public backlash could tear apart the weak conservative-led coalition.

"What people want to tell Samaras is that they are hurt and Samaras could use this to demand concessions from the troika," said MRB polling director Dimitris Mavros.

"The people are willing to give the government time, but on certain conditions like cracking down on tax evasion and securing a bailout extension. If the government succeeds in that, its life will also be extended." ($1 = 0.7715 euros) (Additional reporting by Tatiana Fragou; Editing by Deepa Babington and Mark Heinrich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/greek-strike-test-coalition-governments-mettle-221144445--business.html

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Poor life choice? Tattoos of logos from dot-com boom

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Joe Tamargo sold ads on his body to various sites, like SaveMartha.com, which was set up to keep Martha Stewart from jail following her incitement for securities fraud.

By Ben Popken, TODAY contributor

The dotcom bubble may have burst long ago, but some of its lingering effects are permanently etched on the backsides, forearms and foreheads of a few human billboards. Buzzfeed profiled some people who still carry the ?skinvertising? tattoos. They got cash from websites to ink ads directly onto their flesh back in the 2000s, when the trend was all the rage. The cash is gone. So too are many of the websites. But the ink remains.?

Karolyne Smith sold her forehead space to online gambling site GoldenPalace for $10,000 and hit the talk show circuit. Her current Facebook picture shows her sporting blonde bangs down to her eyebrows. It's against the law to use the site from within the U.S. and several states are blocked from accessing the site at all.?

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Joe Tamargo shows off a tattoo.

Joe Tamargo sold ads on his body to various sites, like SaveMartha.com, which was set up to keep Martha Stewart from jail following her incitement for securities fraud. The tattoo apparently didn't work, because the hostess with the mostess still went to prison (though, after serving her sentence, now free). Tamargo told Buzzfeed that when people ask about the tattoos ,?they're like, 'Yo, that's pretty cool. I'm going to check out those websites... And then they get there and there's nothing on the website.??

He's trying to buy himself some of the URLs on his body which lead to now defunct sites, like the former Viagra pill purveyor pilldaddy.com.?

Other depressing vestiges of the trend include:?

  • Mark Greenlaw: Auctioned the back of his neck on eBay as advertising space in 2006 to a web hosting company called Glob@t to provide for his family while he was in Army basic training.?
  • Jim Nelson: Sold a very large chunk on the back of his head to CI Host for $7,000. He signed a contract agreeing he would travel to at least eight states and two countries a year or pay a $25,000 fine.?
  • Skinvertise.com: Billed itself as the first and original skin advertising agency, bringing together ?skinvertisers? and advertising clients. The website now leads to a page that says the site is suspended.?

Then there's the poster child for the skinvertising trend, Billy Gibby, who legally changed his name to Hostgator Dotcom after a website hosting company paid him for the ?naming rights.? Tattoos for websites cover his face. He too has a giant ad for GoldenPalace filling his backside. In all, he says he has 37 tattoos. So how much does his flesh go for??

In a 2009 post on his blog?Gibby announced he was selling 6?x1? forehead tattoos for $20,000 and 6?x1? and 4?x1? chest tattoos for $3,000 and $2,200, respectively.?

?Let me be your company or website's billboard,? read the post.?

Reached by email, Gibby said he's currently charging $1,500 for a tattoo on his body. Traditional economic theory would suggest that as demand has dropped, so have Gibby's prices.?

Besides changing his prices, Gibby too has had a change of heart about being the walking, talking, literal ?face? of so many websites.?

?I no longer do tattoo ads on my head or face and plan to get those ones taken off one day with lasers,? he told NBC News in an email.

My kids don't really talk about my tattoos much but when they get older I'll let them know the reason I did it,? he wrote. ?It does make me sad sometimes that I have them on my face but I know the reason I did it was to keep my kids from being homeless.?

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Source: http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2012/09/25/14012181-tattoos-from-dot-com-boom-still-mark-those-who-took-the-money?lite

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