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In a study of 86 women who were between four and 36 months past their primary treatment, those who were assigned to twice-weekly weight-training sessions had significantly better quality-of-life score and global psychological scores compared with controls, reported Kathryn H.

Schmitz, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues at the University of Minnesota.

Those in the weight-training group were taught how to perform nine common weight-based exercises using free weights and resistance machines to work the muscles of their chest, back, shoulders, arms, buttocks, hips and thighs.

"They put in two sessions a week, one hour each time, for six months," said study co-author Dr.

Tetsuya Ohira, a visiting scholar in the division of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota.

Specific Exercises to Reduce Lymphedema In a previous publication, Andrea Leonard-Bruno, a noted fitness trainer who focuses on breast cancer rehab and author of Essential Exercises for Breast Cancer Survivors, developed a specific series of exercises using the HeartFlex .

She developed a series of exercise to help patients regain their range of motion, strength, and also to prevent complications of Lymphedema, a fairly common side effect after damage to or removal of the lymph nodes following radiation or surgery.

Improvement in Quality of Life This latest study assessed the women's body fat, weight, bone de...

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Stephen Strang from Canada, a 61-years old executive, has had problems with wounds that will not heal for about a year.

He was amazed at the amount of painkillers he took and would still be in pain.

As a consequence he got drowsy and was worried that continued medication could cause problems for him.

Biatain-Ibu has changed all that.

"By the time I reached the door to leave the doctor's office, I had no pain," he says.

"This is a real breakthrough for countless people who are suffering needlessly from these wounds", says C.

Richard Chapman, professor and director of the Pain Research Center at the University of Utah.

A world known expert on pain, he urges the medical community at large to focus more attention on the suffering caused by chronic wounds.

Lesley Thorne, a British Tissue Viability Nurse at the Manchester Royal Infirmary describes the daily reality for chronic wound sufferers: "It is terrible for these patients.

They are in such constant pain and agony and it doesn't matter what is done, it doesn't get any better." Christine Moffatt, who is Professor of Nursing at Thames Valley University, London, and Director of the Centre for Research and Implementation of Clinical Practice, says: "The traditional tablets that patients take for pain simply don't help.

It seems that this particular product is able to apply the actual pain-relieving agent to the area of the wound.

It gets to the source of where the pain...

...ba href=/insomnia/a/b It is easy to blame fast and junk food for our bulging waistlines.

But it seems that the electric light bulb could be another key culprit.

By artificially extending the 'day', our average hours sleep have dwindled over the last hundred years from ten with one in three of us now getting fewer than seven hours kip a night.

Combined with too much television, computing, stress, new babies and crazy work schedules, sleep deprivation is now epidemic and a provocative body of research suggests it is making us fat.

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There are several reasons behind such claims.

Firstly sleep deprivation lowers levels of the hormone leptin which triggers over consumption of carbohydrate foods.

Anyone who has had a bad night's sleep is familiar with insatiable cravings for toast, cereal and croissant.

Secondly lack of sleep cause growth hormone levels to plummet by 75%.

Secreted during the deep stage of sleep, growth hormone repairs muscle and helps to maintain the proportion of muscle to fat.

Too little could increase our fat stores.

Blood sugar is also adversely affected.

Having just four to seven hours sleep causes sugar readings to shoot up after breakfast and remain at double their usual value in the morning ahead.

In turn this triggers extra insulin which stimulates hunger and encourages fat storage.

Scoffing a chocolate bar is thus a natural knee jerk reaction.

As if this is not sufficient retribution for burni...