News that Vexes: 09/01/2004 - 10/01/2004

News that Vexes

It's so tiresome to read 'new studies' that reveal Smoking, Stress or Obesity are Bad for you. Yet these studies appear all the time. It's time to take back the newswire from so-called Scientists!

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Exercise, Diet Cut Diabetes Risk in Sedentary Men

From this breakthrough story we learn:

Vigorous exercise reduces the risk of diabetes among overweight, sedentary men, study findings suggest. And if these men reduce the amount of calories they consume each day, their diabetes risk drops even further.

WOW!!!

What I love even more is that these results only apply to men - we need to launch another huge study to see if it's possible these results apply to women. WHO KNOWS? IT'S A HUGE MYSTERY!

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Increase Gym Time to Combat Obesity in Girls: Study

"A new report suggests a simple strategy for combating obesity among young girls
-- increasing their gym time. "

According to this groundbreaking new study - increasing exercise can cut down on obesity.
This part is particularly rich:

"Our study shows that there may be benefits to overweight girls from increased PE instruction in school," she said. "Therefore, schools and educators should give PE programs another chance."