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James R. Lyons – Brown fat studies

Based on his clinical experience in plastic surgery, Lyons developed three central impressions: that there are different types of fat in the adult female body, including one he identified as structural brown fat; that the more brown fat a woman has, the leaner she tends to be; and that different types of fat can be [...]

New Harbinger Publications – Specialties

Professional Books New Harbinger is a leading publisher in the area of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It has published 26 ACT titles, including several by Hayes, who co-founded ACT and is one of its leading theorists . New Harbinger also publishes a number of books that use the psychological concentrations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy [...]

Human height – Determinants of growth and height

The study of height is known as auxology. Growth has long been recognized as a measure of the health of individuals, hence part of the reasoning for the use of growth charts. For individuals, as indicators of health problems, growth trends are tracked for significant deviations and growth is also monitored for significant deficiency from [...]

Osteoarthritis – Causes

Exercise, including running in the absence of injury, has not been found to increase one’s risk of developing osteoarthritis. Some investigators believe that mechanical stress on joints underlies all osteoarthritis, with many and varied sources of mechanical stress, including misalignments of bones caused by congenital or pathogenic causes; mechanical injury; overweight; loss of strength in [...]

Freshman fifteen – Prevention

Calorie control To avoid putting on that extra weight in the first place, nutritionists suggest, setting boundaries in order to keep the calories at a sufficient amount. It is also suggested that a person should make sure that they burned off any extra calories as well. That is what would inevitably lead to unhealthy weight [...]

Robert Marting – Biography

The son of a Navy pilot, Marting spent time as a child in Thousand Oaks, California before growing up in Colleyville, Texas, a small town in suburban Fort Worth. He first picked up a weight in grade school for various sports and martial arts. In the early days growing up in rural Texas, first utilizing [...]

Surya Namaskara – Introduction

Surya Namaskara (IAST: ”Sūrya namaskāra”) or Sun Salutation (lit. “salute to the sun”), is a common sequence of Hatha yoga asanas. Its origins lie in a worship of Surya, the Hindu solar deity. This sequence of movements and poses can be practised on varying levels of awareness, ranging from that of physical exercise in various [...]

Worry – Theories

One theory of anxiety by Liebert and Morris in 1967 suggests that anxiety consists of two components; worry and emotionality. Emotionality refers to physiological symptoms such as sweating, increased heart beat and raised blood pressure. Worry refers to negative self-talk that often distracts the mind from focusing on solutions to the problem at hand. For [...]

Nursing assistant skills – Patient Rights

It is the job of the entire health care team to make sure that a patient’s rights are always adhered to, these include, but are not limited to the right to privacy and dignity while care is being given, the right to be informed of their care plan, the right to be included when making [...]

Index of health articles – E

Ecological health – Energy medicine – Environmental health – Enzyme – Epidemic – Ethnicity and health – Evidence-based medicine – Evidence-based practice – Evolutionary medicine – Eugenics – Exercise equipment – Exercise physiology – Exercise Adapted from the Wikipedia article Index of health articles, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see [...]









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