“Past studies in adults with Type 2 diabetes show that their heart and blood vessels’ ability to adapt to exercise may be impaired. Our study shows that these changes in heart function may begin to happen very early after Type 2 diabetes occurs,” said the study’s lead author, Teresa Pinto, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at the Dalhousie University IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Pinto performed the research while at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The researchers studied how the heart and blood vessels of 13 teenagers with Type 2 diabetes adapted to exercise, compared with 27 overweight or obese subjects who did not have diabetes and 19 nondiabetic and nonobese control subjects.

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Top IFBB Figure Pro, Felicia Romero grew up an athlete spending many of her college days practicing and playing softball. Shes steadily improved her physique into one of the best it the Pro League and scored a few covers along the way. Now Felicia works as a personal trainer and helps run a gym in Arizona. Find out what it takes to get a body like hers!

Who says being fit only meant living a healthy lifestyle and curbing the body? Camp Allen have designed Faithful Fitness, a retreat meant to equip men and women with the necessary tools to live not only healthy but also spiritually fit lives. Happening at Camp Allen in Texas from the weekend of July 8, 5:00 pm up until Sunday, July 10 at 1:00 pm, this one of a kind retreat will have sessions led by certified personal trainers, nurses and other fitness experts. The 3-day retreat/workshop will feature sessions such as yoga and tai chi, strength training, healthy eating, meditation techniques, stress reduction sessions, spiritual fitness, as well as guided hikes. Full Post…

View full sizeJohn Kuntz, The Plain DealerA low-dose spiral CT scanner at University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s new Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland.

The diagnostic use of low-dose spiral computer tomography over standard X-ray reduces the risk of dying from lung cancer by 20 percent in middle-age and elderly smokers, according to an article published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The long-awaited data supports a landmark national study and provides a more extensive analysis than what was released last November by the National Cancer Institute, which sponsored the National Lung Screening Trial.

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