Carrying extra body fat increases the risk for diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and also increases risk of cancer recurrence after a breast cancer diagnosis. A multi-institutional study presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 shows that female breast cancer survivors are able to lose weight through modest lifestyle changes.
"This is a significant finding because it shows that women are able to lose weight after breast cancer treatment and this may lead to reduced risk of recurrence," says Tim Byers, MD, MPH, associate director for cancer prevention and control at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, and one of the study's authors.
"I think these findings show that we should now move forward with a larger study," says Byers. "If we can prove that intentional weight loss reduces breast cancer recurrence I believe weight control will become a routine part of oncology care."
The study, which lasted two years, followed 700 women at four sites around the United States (Denver, San Diego, Saint Louis, and Birmingham).
"The study was a randomized control trial in which half of the participants took part in lifestyle interventions. The goal was to lose seven percent of their body weight and maintain it for two years," says Rebecca Sedjo, PhD, assistant researcher professor at CU Cancer Center, and collaborator in the trial. In the first 12 months the average weight loss for the intervention group was six percent of their body weight.
In order to make lifestyle changes the women in the intervention group attended motivational meetings that focused on increasing physical activity and decreasing caloric intake. The meetings tapered off from once a week to once a month in the first year. In the second year, newsletters were sent to participants to encourage continued weight control.
"We don't need to focus on getting to the 'ideal' body type, whatever that may be," says Byers. "If we can prove that modest weight loss improves the chance of better outcomes after breast cancer we need to encourage and support that."
"This is a significant finding because it shows that women are able to lose weight after breast cancer treatment and this may lead to reduced risk of recurrence," says Tim Byers, MD, MPH, associate director for cancer prevention and control at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, and one of the study's authors.
"I think these findings show that we should now move forward with a larger study," says Byers. "If we can prove that intentional weight loss reduces breast cancer recurrence I believe weight control will become a routine part of oncology care."
The study, which lasted two years, followed 700 women at four sites around the United States (Denver, San Diego, Saint Louis, and Birmingham).
"The study was a randomized control trial in which half of the participants took part in lifestyle interventions. The goal was to lose seven percent of their body weight and maintain it for two years," says Rebecca Sedjo, PhD, assistant researcher professor at CU Cancer Center, and collaborator in the trial. In the first 12 months the average weight loss for the intervention group was six percent of their body weight.
In order to make lifestyle changes the women in the intervention group attended motivational meetings that focused on increasing physical activity and decreasing caloric intake. The meetings tapered off from once a week to once a month in the first year. In the second year, newsletters were sent to participants to encourage continued weight control.
"We don't need to focus on getting to the 'ideal' body type, whatever that may be," says Byers. "If we can prove that modest weight loss improves the chance of better outcomes after breast cancer we need to encourage and support that."
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Most us health care such as corporate health, touchstone health and intermountain health care use health assessment questionnaire to get information, but this cant get information from the public, it is only meant to be use in the office.
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But now click Heath has come to balance the spread of information across the internet, and make this information available for internet users. Although beauty and health must not be left aside.
36 million Brits online every day
Compared to 16.2m in 2006, the number of people using the internet in the UK has skyrocketed to 35.7m this year - representing 73% of the population. Meanwhile (unsurprisingly) the proportion of Britons who go online less often has fallen, but the numbers still seem surprisingly high; 7.4m did not use the internet at all in the last three months, that's 15% of the UK population. And 11% of people say they've never used a computer at all.
Men more likely than women to shop online
On average, 27% of men make online purchases compared to 22% of women. However that depends on which products and services are being bought - more women buy clothing or food online whereas a greater proportion of men buy films, music, games and software while using the internet.
Men are 2x more likely to download software than women
There are clear gender differences in online habits - 60% of men read news online compared to 49% of women. The biggest gap though concerns downloading software (excluding gaming software) which men are two times more likely than women to do.
British women are 7% more likely to seek health advice online than men (but they're more likely to seek health advice