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...PHYSICAL A study in JAMA reports that women ages 25 to 45 who use home-exercise equipment lose more weight than those who go for brisk walks or otherwise exercise outside the home. Members of the latter group were found to be more likely to skip their regimen in bad weather or if they got delayed until after dark. Those with treadmills and such at home could more easily fit exercise into fast-changing family schedules, even as they watched over children...
...study was published in the October 6 issue of the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA...
Sources--Good News: JAMA (10/6/99); Journal of Clinical Investigation (10/99). Bad News...
...social conditions. "If you're an ordinary worker in a Chinese industrial city, there are so many other more immediate threats to your health and well-being that smoking may seem like a relatively minor danger," says Dowell. It may be some time, though, before the Chinese follow the JAMA study's recommendations. After all, as any smoker or ex-smoker can attest, the habit is hardest to resist in times of stress ? and a China in the throes of an epic transition to capitalism looks set to be a very stressful place for a long time to come...
Sources--Good News: JAMA (7/14/99), National Institutes of Health. Bad News: MMWR (7/16/99), JAMA (7/14/99...