http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Last year, Kerri Campbell made a decision: She would no longer sit at her desk eight hours a day. Today, the retail broker for Daymon Worldwide in Pleasanton, Calif., stands on a couple of black pads, each about an inch think. Her keyboard is on a wooden stand built by her husband, and her monitor rests at eye level on a box, a hard drive dock and a ream of paper. http://phys.org/news227982852.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:44:48 EST news227982852 A new study published in the April 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association indicates that inadequate nutrition is linked to a greater risk of anemia in postmenopausal women. http://phys.org/news220249719.html Medicine & Health Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:29:01 EST news220249719 Widespread screening or routine ultrasound for blocked neck arteries to determine stroke risk isn't necessary, according to new guidelines from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, American College of Cardiology and other groups. http://phys.org/news215711719.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:55:31 EST news215711719 Biologists at the University of California, Riverside have found that voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations. http://phys.org/news202564053.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:48:15 EST news202564053 Poor diet and physical inactivity leading to obesity are poised to overtake tobacco use as the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. With over 30% of U.S. adults obese, the significant adverse health effects of obesity (including heart disease and diabetes) are widespread throughout the country. Two studies published in the August issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association shed light on behaviors regarding food choices and good nutrition and report on how nutritional labeling and point-of-purchase signs are influencing healthy food choices. http://phys.org/news199964208.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:00:02 EST news199964208 A new report from the EarlyBird Diabetes Study suggests that physical activity has little if any role to play in the obesity epidemic among children. Obesity is the key factor behind diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. http://phys.org/news197726539.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:00:03 EST news197726539 A novel study by German researchers reported that alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking were associated with increased migraines and tension-type headaches (TTH) in high school students. Coffee drinking and physical inactivity were associated specifically with migraines. Results of this study, the first to investigate modifiable risk factors for different types of headaches in a youth population, appear online early in Headache, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Headache Society. http://phys.org/news194923293.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:20:01 EST news194923293 Experts disagree in the British Medical Journal today about the best way to tackle the obesity crisis. While Professor Louise Baur and colleagues from the Children's Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney in Australia acknowledge that "physical inactivity is a major contributor to the global burden of disease," they says that it would be wrong to only focus on this and ignore the problem of obesity. http://phys.org/news194034828.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 May 2010 19:34:11 EST news194034828 Four unhealthy behaviors -- smoking, lack of physical activity, poor diet and alcohol consumption -- appear to be associated with a substantially increased risk of death when combined, according to a report in the April 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. http://phys.org/news191524132.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:50:04 EST news191524132 Risk-taking peaks in adolescence, according to scientists at UCL (University College London). http://phys.org/news188678963.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:20:01 EST news188678963 Researchers from the Toronto Western Research Institute noted a higher prevalence of arthritis and arthritis-attributable activity limitations (AAL) in the U.S. versus the Canadian population. The authors attribute the higher prevalence of arthritis and AAL to a greater level of obesity and physical inactivity in Americans, particularly women. Full findings of this study are published in the March issue of Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology. http://phys.org/news186306379.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:00:02 EST news186306379 Short sleep times, experienced by many individuals in Westernized societies, may contribute to the development of insulin resistance and reduced glucose tolerance, which in turn may increase the long-term risk of diabetes, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). http://phys.org/news169141622.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:10:08 EST news169141622 According to a study conducted at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, health risk behaviors such as smoking and obesity are associated with lower awareness of the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA), which could lead to a lower likelihood of undergoing actual prostate cancer screening. Although previous studies have explored predictors of PSA test awareness, this is the first research to focus on health risk behaviors, such as smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, and excessive alcohol consumption. The study findings were reported in the August issue of The Journal of Urology. http://phys.org/news139053457.html Medicine & Health Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:57:37 EST news139053457