Blacks more likely to want end-of-life intervention
Blacks are more likely than whites to want life-sustaining care at the end of life for an incurable illness or a serious physical or mental disability, a new study shows.
While more than half of black individuals surveyed said they would want life support if they had a chronic condition and were brain dead, just 11 percent of whites would want this intervention. Nearly three quarters of blacks said they would want life-sustaining care if they were terminally ill and had senile dementia, compared with 22.2 percent of whites.
Diets may spur unhealthy eating in some obese kids
For some obese children, dieting may set off an unhealthy preoccupation with weight and eating, a small study suggests.
Researchers found that among obese adolescents, some of those who had tried dieting eventually developed a preoccupation with weight loss and a habit of binge-eating.
The findings, published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, suggest that for some heavy children, dieting can backfire.
Exercise or diet both lower type 2 diabetes risk
Caloric reduction and exercise-induced weight loss both substantially improve risk factors for type 2 diabetes; however, one approach does not appear to be better than the other, a study shows.
“Although diet and exercise can markedly reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes, the relative contributions of exercise training and calorie restriction to these protective effects are not known,” note the researchers in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
