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Mayo Clinic: Healthy Heart for Life!

Heart disease is preventable in most cases with simple lifestyle changes, according to this new book from the respected Mayo Clinic. It calls its program “Eat 5, Move 10, Sleep 8” program: Eat five daily servings of fruit and vegetables, add 10 minutes per day of moderately intense physical activity to your current fitness regime, and sleep eight hours a night. “If you can do this,” the experts write, “good results will follow.” The book also offers familiar tips for keeping your heart healthy, including quitting smoking, losing weight, taking any needed medications and reducing stress. And it recommends alternative treatments such as meditation and music therapy, which “may lower blood pressure and heart rate in people with heart disease.”

Ellen Barrett Live: Grace+Gusto

If your joints can’t take the pounding of many exercise programs, Ellen Barrett’s DVD may have something to offer. Grace+Gusto incorporates ballet, Pilates and light cardio in a program that she says is “deceptively challenging; it feels so good you won’t realize how hard you worked until the day after.” And, in fact, the exercises do seem simple — and they do cause you to break into a sweat. One reason is that this 45-minute workout — alternating between toning exercises and lengthening stretches — is nonstop, so have your water bottle handy. Barrett claims that her program “gives energy rather than zaps it,” and since there are no pounding exercises, your joints won’t feel achy.

— Whitney Fetterhoff

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27-01-2012 15:59 Visit us on the web to see all of our therapeutic enrichment activities: http://www.redrockcanyonschool.com See our students' accomplishments and what they're working on. Follow us! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com One of the goals at Red Rock Canyon School is to help students become healthy, well-rounded adults. The fitness program, headed by Cedic Colby, helps students gain knowledge of exercise and nutrition in a safe and positive environment. This program helps students develop healthy habits and build the basis for a long and active life. The rigorous exercise provided by this program also gives students a healthy way to work on their drug rehabilitation, anger and self-confidence. Two of the students that participate in this program were able to train for and complete the St. George Half Marathon ( youtu.be ) on January 28, 2012. See our recreational activities: youtu.be We also have a great equine program: youtu.be See how we are going green: youtu.be Our fully functional recording studio: youtu.be Red Rock Canyon School is a state-licensed residential treatment facility for adolescents, ages twelve to eighteen, with behavioral and/or emotional problems who require a level of structure and treatment beyond that which is available in traditional outpatient clinics. We offer 24 hour nursing and behavioral management staffing to ensure that our clients have access to professional staffing throughout their stay. Meet our staff: redrockcanyonschool.com In ...

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03-02-2012 15:55 bg-market.com The #1 Fat Loss Tip of 2011 - 'Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle' shows you exactly why it's fat you must lose, not weight, why you cannot succeed with starvation diets, and then shows you exactly how to burn off fat step by step, in one of the most detailed fat loss nutrition books ever written. More videos and other programs for every development level - in my sites and blogs: bg-market.com

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Sobi and Biogen Idec have agreed to disclose further details on their agreement regarding development and commercialization of long-lasting recombinant factor VIII and factor IX hemophilia programs, which was restructured in February 2010. Under the new agreement, Biogen Idec assumed full development responsibilities and costs, as well as manufacturing rights. In addition, the cross-royalty rates were reduced and commercial rights for certain territories were changed.

Subject to the exercise of an option right, Sobi will have commercial rights in Europe, Russia, Turkey and certain countries in the Middle East (the Sobi territory). Biogen Idec has commercial rights for North America (the Biogen North American territory) and for rest of the world markets outside of Europe, Russia, Turkey and certain countries in the Middle East (the Biogen Direct territory).

Under the terms of the option right and following Biogen Idec`s submission of a marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for each program, Sobi may opt to take over final regulatory approval, pre-launch and commercialization activities in the Sobi territory at a cost of USD 10.0 million per program.

Upon EMA regulatory approval of each program, Sobi will be liable to reimburse Biogen Idec 50% of the sum of all manufacturing and development expenses incurred by Biogen Idec from 1 October 2009 through the date on which Sobi is registered as the marketing authorization holder, as well as 100% of certain development expenses incurred exclusively for the benefit of the Sobi territory.

To effect Sobi`s reimbursement to Biogen Idec for each program, the cross-royalty structure for direct sales in each company`s respective territories will be adjusted until the consideration is paid in full. The mechanism for reimbursement is outlined in the table below.

In the event that Sobi exercises its option right, amounts under the amended agreement will become payable as follows:

Rates should Sobi exercise its opt-in right Royalty and net revenue share rates Method Rate prior to first
commercial sale
in Sobi`s territory Base rate following
first commercial
sale in Sobi`s territory Rate during
reimbursement period Sobi rate to Biogen Idec on net sales
in the Sobi territory Royalty N/A 10 to 12% Base rate plus 5% Biogen Idec rate to Sobi on net sales in
 the Biogen North American territory Royalty 2%3) 10 to 12% Base rate less 5% Biogen Idec rate to Sobi on net sales in
the Biogen Direct territory Royalty 2%3) 15 to 17% Base rate less 5% Biogen Idec to Sobi on net revenue1)
in the Biogen Distributor territory 2) Net revenue
share 10% 50% Base rate less 15% Net revenue represents Biogen Idec`s pre-tax receipts from third-party distributors, less expenses incurred by Biogen Idec in the conduct of commercialization activities supporting the distributor activities. The Biogen Distributor Territory represents Biogen territories where sales are derived utilizing a third-party distributor. A credit will be issued to Sobi against its reimbursement of the Opt-in Consideration in an amount equal to the difference in the royalties  paid by Biogen Idec to Sobi on sales in the Biogen territory for certain periods prior to the first commercial sale
in the Sobi  territory versus the rate that otherwise would have been payable on such sales.

If the reimbursement of the opt-in consideration has not been achieved within six years of the first commercial sale of the respective programs, Biogen Idec has the right to require Sobi to pay any remaining balances within 90 days of the six year anniversary date of the first commercial sale.

Should Sobi not exercise its option right with respect to one or both programs or should Sobi terminate the agreement with respect to one or both programs, Biogen Idec will obtain full worldwide development and commercialization rights for such affected program and will be obligated to pay royalties to Sobi subject to separate terms defined under the restructured collaboration agreement. In addition, if EMA approval for any program is not granted within 18 months of the applicable EMA filing date, Sobi shall have the right to require that the first opt-in payment be refunded and revoke its option right for such program.

The information in this press release has also been included in Biogen Idec`s 10K report filed with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) in the US.

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Swedish Orphan Biovitrum (Sobi)Sobi is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical company dedicated to bringing innovative therapies and services to improve the health of rare disease patients and their families. The product portfolio comprises about 60 marketed products as well as projects in the late clinical phase. Key therapeutic areas are Inflammation and Genetics & Metabolism. In 2010 Sobi had revenues of SEK 1.9 billion and around 500 employees. The share (STO: SOBI.ST - News) is listed on OMX NASDAQ Stockholm. More information is available at http://www.sobi.com.

The information above has been published pursuant to the Swedish Securities Market Act and/or the Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was released for public distribution on 6 February 2012 at 8.00 a.m. CET.

 

 

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DEL VALLE, TX -- Most of the 2,500 inmates at the Travis County Correctional Complex are awaiting trial. They've been charged with anything from a misdemeanor to capital murder, and moving through the court system can take months.

In the meantime, inmates at the expansive gray campus east of the airport can enroll in a variety of programs, from theater arts to anger management classes.

Sometimes they practice yoga.

For more than a year, Community Yoga instructors have volunteered to lead four classes at the complex each week. The program is free, but inmates must submit a request to participate in them or any of the other programs offered at the facility. Yoga classes are limited to 25 people. Three of the classes are for men, with one for women. A waiting list of 60 to 70 inmates is common, officials said.

The walls of the health services building where the programs take place are decorated with inmates' artwork that reinforces lessons Travis County is trying to teach.

"Let yourself cry, it won't last forever," one reads. Another says, "Taking drugs is dumb."

Incarceration is a consequence, but Beverly Gentle, the facility's health services building volunteer coordinator of 10 years, said it's also an opportunity for the county to instill positive lifestyle changes in the inmates.

"Sometimes it seems like this is the forgotten population," Gentle said. "If we do nothing, we've made no change. To me, that would be a disservice to them. Everyone deserves a chance to change."

Daniel Smith, the facility's counseling and education manager, said the jail's programming is designed to address factors thought to produce criminal behavior, including low levels of involvement in leisurely noncriminal pursuits.

Addressing those and other issues lessens the likelihood that an inmate will return to jail, Smith said. The yoga classes are in part meant to introduce inmates to a new activity that won't land them in jail.

"We want them, when they leave here, to go back into the community better than they came in," he said.

But day to day, it's hard to tell whether the classes change the men and women participating in them. Inmate programs are voluntary, with only a quarter of the population participating, and volunteers often are working to counter a lifetime of bad habits, Smith said. "We're trying to make baby steps."

By volunteering at the correctional complex, Community Yoga is fulfilling its mission to make the discipline available to people in the community who might not otherwise have access to classes.

Geoff O'Meara, one of the yoga instructors, also volunteers at Austin Recovery, teaching poses to men in the drug rehabilitation and alcoholic treatment center's long-term residential program.

O'Meara said he hopes jail inmates can live a happier life as a result of his class.

"By giving the inmates a tool that will help them to break cycles of addiction, violence and negative thinking, by supporting them in their efforts to improve their lives, they will inevitably improve the community as a whole," O'Meara said.

Some people stay in the class for months. O'Meara said a handful of inmates have taken the class for more than a year.

At the end of each class, O'Meara gives the inmates a sheet with instructions on how to perform the poses they practice in class that day. A handout earlier this month included an Oprah Winfrey quote: "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

During the first weeks of class, O'Meara said some of the men are leery of what they signed up for -- they think it's for girls.

O'Meara said it doesn't take long before they learn that yoga is nothing to sniff at, that it's strenuous. A semicircle of about 10 inmates seemed to think so at a recent class in which they balanced on one foot and leaned forward with the other leg extended behind them. Some gripped a chair to help them balance. Many groaned with relief when O'Meara finally told them to lower their legs, laughing as they shook their muscles.

Brows in furrowed concentration while learning each new pose, group members sat quietly in their gray stripes and Crocs during exercises that called for stretching their arms in the air, first to the left, then the right. Soft puffs of air carried around the room as they concentrated on their breathing.

Marcus Lang, 33, said the class made him feel energized.

"I hate to say it, but I feel high a little bit," he said. Lang, who has been charged with multiple drug-related offenses, said he had used hallucinogenics to achieve such a feeling.

Jacob Vasquez, 32, said it helped him deal with the stress of being incarcerated.

He said his fiancee practices yoga, and the class helps him feel closer to her while he's behind bars. Charged with burglary, among other things, Vasquez said he had to postpone his wedding.

"It helps me every week, to come in here," he said. "It helps me just to not think about being here."

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Q: My husband was diagnosed last year with Parkinson's disease. Recently, he has noticed more difficulty getting around the house. Are there any exercise programs available here to help him improve his mobility?

A: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive movement disorder, meaning that the symptoms of the disorder will worsen over time.

It is caused by a problem with the nerve cells in the brain that make an important chemical called dopamine. Dopamine is responsible for sending signals to the part of the brain that controls muscle movement and coordination. With PD, there is a breakdown of these cells, and they can no longer generate dopamine. As the disease progresses, the amount of dopamine produced in the brain decreases, leaving a person unable to control movement normally.

The most common symptoms of PD are tremors, slowness of movement, stiffness of the limbs and trunk, and impaired balance and coordination. The symptoms might seem very mild in the beginning, and the progression can vary from person to person. It is never too early to begin addressing the physical, cognitive and emotional limitations caused by PD, and it is wonderful you are looking to be proactive in helping your husband to maintain good mobility.

Although the neurological damage due to PD cannot be reversed, maintaining muscle tone and function is a very important aspect in the treatment of the disease in order for someone to maintain independence and quality of life.

Medication can be used for symptom relief and to minimize adverse effects, but a growing number of studies suggest the exercise approach brings greater benefits for functional performance in individuals with PD than relying on medication alone.

You might be interested to know that in order to increase the availability, quality and standardization of PD-specific exercise programs in the Black Hills region, many Regional Health physical and occupational therapists have attended, or will be attending, NeuroFit's Parkinson Wellness Recovery (PWR) program - a PD-exercise expert training program.

PWR incorporates the Exercise4BrainChange model in the form of exercise and enrichment to target not only the physical deficits of PD, but also cognitive and emotional functioning. It is a program based on the latest basic and clinical science research on neuroplasticity and learning. It has been proven to have the ability to delay disease onset, slow disease progression, restore motor function and increase longevity and quality of life. Its goal is to promote "neurofitness for life" and hopefully eliminate end-stage Parkinson's disease.

Therapy teams throughout the Regional Health network include Custer Regional Hospital, Lead-Deadwood Regional Hospital, Regional Rehabilitation Institute, Spearfish Regional Hospital and Sturgis Regional Hospital; all are prepared to partner with patients and families in response to the growing needs of our population with Parkinson's disease.

Rachel Arnold is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, DPT, at Regional Rehabilitation Institute. Ask Regional Health appears once a month in the Health section. Email non-urgent medical questions for possible future column consideration to AskAProfessional@RegionalHealth.com.

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By: TRAVIS FAIN | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: February 04, 2012
Updated: February 04, 2012 - 12:07 AM

In a trailer behind Ward Elementary School, students may be doing two of the best things they can for their future: reading and exercising.

Since 2009 the school has collected donated exercise bicycles for a program called “Read and Ride.” Teachers bring in classes, usually 15 minutes at a time, to burn off energy and read donated magazines propped up on book holders attached to the bikes.

Some weeks no one comes in, said school counselor Scott Ertl, who came up with the idea and oversees the program. Other weeks – especially the rainy ones 20 classes use the bikes, he said.

“So many (students) associate reading with sitting at their desk,” fourth-grade teacher Katie Garcia said recently, as her class pedaled away. “It kind of opens their eyes that they can pull out a book and read anywhere.”

These blended exercise-learning programs appear to be rare in the United States, and Ward Elementary’s program is the only one in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school district. One teacher at Kernersville Middle School sits students on exercise balls instead of chairs, but that’s about it for in-class workouts, said Nancy Sutton, health and physical education specialist for the district.

But data – albeit limited data -- from similar programs suggest they can make a massive difference, not only with student health, but with education.

A Canadian teacher named Allison Cameron put exercise bikes and treadmills in her high school classroom in 2007. Three days a week Cameron split language arts classes into 20 minutes of exercise and 20 minutes of regular teaching.

Sometimes students would read as they exercised, but often they’d just chat or listen to music, she said.

The other two days of the week Cameron added pushups and situps to math classes, she said. All this exercise was in addition to regular physical education classes at the school, and the results “blew me out of the water,” Cameron said.

Body mass indexes went down and test scores went up, particularly in writing, according to data posted on Cameron’s website. An eighth-grade class keeping to Cameron’s “Movement Matters” program improved its writing test scores 245 percent over a school year, she said.

Another eighth-grade class at the school, which didn’t do the program, saw its writing test scores go down over the same period, she said.

“The only thing different in these groups of students' day was that language arts was replaced by Movement Matters (for) 20 minutes, three times a week,” Cameron said in an email. “While the students of the participating group were exercising, the other group was spending the entire 40-minute Language Arts period on academics.”

Cameron said participating students also behaved better and had fewer sick days. And as she exercised alongside them, Cameron said students “let their guards down, and this brand new relationship started to form."

Cameron said the program was so obviously successful that, at her principal’s suggestion, she stopped keeping statistics and focused on expanding it. She has since established similar programs at hundreds of schools in Canada, she said.

In the United States, Ward Elementary’s “Read and Ride” program seems to be one of the first of its kind. Ertl said he’s looked online and talked the program up at national conferences without hearing of many similar ones.

He hasn’t kept data on student test scores, and Ward’s physical education teacher said she couldn’t draw any conclusions about its effect on health.

But Ward’s program is completely voluntary, and thus hard to quantify. Teachers have to take time away from regular lessons to let their students ride, and many have not embraced the concept, Ertl and Sutton said.

Many are concerned that the burst of energy children get when they start cycling will make them harder to control when it’s time to return to class, but research shows the opposite, Sutton said. Other teachers may be worried about losing instruction time to exercise, Ertl said.

Russell Jones Elementary School in Rogers, Ark., has a more regimented program than Ward Elementary’s, but school physical education teacher Lowell Ratzlaff said he believes the school got the idea for the program from Ertl.

Ratzlaff said he had two fourth-grade classes reading and cycling three days a week. Each of those classes averaged 113 to 118 points growth in state reading benchmarks, he said. Classes that didn’t participate in the program averaged 71 to 79 points growth, he said.

“Anytime you do anything in a school like that, there are a lot of variables,” Ratzlaff said. “But we didn’t do anything different with them, other than the ride to read.”

Naperville Central High School in Illinois found similar results, according to an ABC News report in April 2010. That school moved physical education to the start of the school day and put stationary bicycles in classrooms. Reading scores have nearly doubled, and math scores are up “by a factor of 20,” ABC News reported.

Broader scientific research has drawn a direct line between exercise and brain function. Harvard Medical School professor John Ratey has written extensively on the subject, saying exercise makes the human brain “more ready to learn.” Another study found that mice exercising on treadmills had increased blood flow to the part of their brains associated with the production of new brain cells.

Which means that it’s entirely possible 10-year-old Wanya Martin, a fourth grader at Ward Elementary, was directionally correct when he offered this assessment of the school’s Read and Ride program: “Helps with my brain muscle.”

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An athlete might notice that his or her muscles or joints are sore after exercising, which can cause a lot of pain, and hinder his or her athletic ability. Soreness after working out or playing sports is fairly common, and can happen to an athlete regardless of age or athletic ability. In order for an athlete to continue participating in sports or exercise programs, he or she must treat the muscle soreness immediately once it develops.

Here are three ways that an athlete can treat exercise soreness, which can help him or her resume normal activities within days.

Keep Moving

An athlete that is experiencing soreness after exercise should keep moving, which is one of the best treatment options available. If an athlete notices that his or her muscles are sore after exercise, he or she should not just go in and sit on the couch for the next few days, since this can cause the muscles to stiffen up. If an athlete keeps moving, he or she is more likely to notice a decrease in the discomfort, because moving can actually decrease the joint inflammation. An athlete should not be going out and participating in intense sports, but he or she should make an effort to take a 10 minute walk at least twice a day, which can keep the muscles flexible during the soreness.

Apply Heat and Ice at Regular Intervals

An athlete should also make sure to apply heat and ice to the area of the body where the soreness is occurring, and this should be done at least three times each day. In the first few days after the soreness has started, an athlete should be using a cold ice compress on the affected area, but he or she should only keep the ice on for 20 minutes at a time. Once the first few days of soreness have passed, an athlete should begin using heat compresses around the sore areas, which can help increase blood circulation, and decrease the discomfort or pain. Applying heat and ice to the sore areas can help treat the muscles or joints where the pain is coming from, and can also help alleviate inflammation or swelling around the area. It might also feel good for an athlete to take a hot bath after the first few days of soreness, which can provide relief to the entire body.

Get a Sports Massage

An athlete can also get a sports massage, which can help alleviate soreness after exercising, and can help him or her feel refreshed. Sports massages are great because the professional can target specific areas on the body, and also provide a more general massage to soothe muscles. If an athlete notices that the soreness is in the back, then he or she should focus the sports massage on this specific area. Sports massages can relieve tension, decrease pain and inflammation, and can also prevent spasms from occurring. An athlete should get a sports massage within the first couple of days after noticing the soreness, and should continue to get the massages weekly, in order to prevent further soreness down the road. If an athlete decides to get a sports massage, he or she can expect to have increased flexibility, and he or she will be more relaxed overall.

Jeanne Rose worked as a dietary clerk for three years in a hospital, went to vocational school for Allied Health, and obtained certification in nurse assisting.

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