�Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has discovered that obesity in later life does not ca-ca a substantial difference to risks of death among older people but that it is a major contributor to increased disablement in later life - creating a ticking time bomb for health services in developed countries.
The research is published in the August 2008 edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
The Peninsula Medical School research team worked with data on just under 4,000 participants in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) cured 65 and older and living in the biotic community. Each player had their weight and height measured and their BMI (body mass index) calculated and they were followed up for basketball team years. The researchers compared people with BMI of 20 to 24.9 (i.e. those of recommended weight), with those who had a BMI of 25 to 29.9 ("stoutness"), 30 to 34.9 ("obese"), or 35 or over ("gravely obese").
The results showed that the higher an older person's BMI, the more likely he or she was to develop mobility problems (measured using a standard performance test) or to develop difficulty carrying out everyday tasks. The results also showed that, in older people, the link between higher BMI and the risk of infection of demise is weak - only severely weighty older workforce seemed to run this increased hazard.
Dr Iain Lang, wHO led the research from the Peninsula Medical School, commented: "We have known for some time that young and middle-aged adults who ar overweight go a higher risk of death and it was presumed that this held true for older people. In fact, our results show that the risk of anxious is higher only for the most severely rotund but that all senior people wHO are corpulence are at significantly increased risk of developing problems with mobility and carrying out casual tasks."
He added: "This research is important because a maturation proportion of the population is cured 65 or over, and more and more of these older people ar overweight. In fact, in most developed countries middle-aged and aged adults ar more likely to be obese than people in any other age chemical group. These findings have immense significance for the delivery of health care, both now and in the future. Increasing numbers of older people and higher levels of overweight and obesity testament lead to a greater burden of disability and ill health and blank space an immense strain on health and social services. The issuing is likely to receive worse as time goes on and represents a ticking clip bomb for health services around the world."
The research squad recommends that older people should talk to their doctor or other health care professional about their weight, and take their advice regarding slimming down pat if they are adiposis. The advice may include more physical exercise, a change in diet, or both.
Lindley Owen, Consultant in Public Health at Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust, said: "Staying a healthy weight unit can be a fun and relatively easy thing to do, even as people contract older. People don't have to join a gymnasium or take on complicated new diets. There ar many everyday opportunities to stay active through veritable walking, gardening or social groups, patch eating unused, nutritious food for thought is enjoyable at whatever age.
"Our experience of running supported walking and cycling groups has shown that senior people benefit in many ways from regular physical activity. Not only do they get fitter and physically stronger but the enjoyment of spending time with friends in the open airwave can give new confidence and a real zestfulness for aliveness.
"People are living thirster but this study shows that overindulgence weight can have a real wallop on the quality of people's lives which crapper reduce the benefit of those spear carrier years. We must do all we can to encourage aged friends or relatives to build enjoyable exercise into their daily routine and develop good habits ourselves to carry into our retirement years. People canful visit hTTP://www.strollbacktheyears.info or http://www.healthpromcornwall.org (01209 313419) for more advice."
Dr Gill Lewendon, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Plymouth Teaching PCT, added: "This report highlights the job of fleshiness in an increasingly aging population. The PCT and City Council work closely with a wide range of voluntary and statutory agencies to provide increased opportunities for everyone to eat more healthily and to move around a bit more. For those who are already identical overweight or obese, the PCT provides a comprehensive weight direction service for people of all ages. "
More information is useable by logging on at http://www.pms.ac.uk.
The Peninsula Medical School is a junction entity of the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the NHS in the South West of England, and a better half of the Combined Universities in Cornwall. The Peninsula Medical School has created for itself an fantabulous national and international reputation for groundbreaking ceremony research in the areas of diabetes and obesity, neurological disease, child development and ageing, clinical training and health technology assessment.
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Saturday 23 August 2008
Mp3 music: Cannonball Adderly
 Artist: Cannonball Adderly: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz Cannonball Adderly's discography:  Jazz Masters 31 Year: Tracks: 16 One of the great alto saxophonists, Cannonball Adderley had an high-spirited and happy sound (as opposed to many of the more than serious stylists of his generation) that communicated immediately to listeners. His mentation intro of his music (often explaining what he and his musicians were departure to play) helped make him one of the well-nigh popular of all jazzmen. Adderley already had an conventional life history as a high school striation film director in Florida when, during a 1955 visit to New York, he was persuaded to sit in with Oscar Pettiford's grouping at the Cafe Bohemia. His playing created such a sensation that he was before long gestural to Savoy and persuaded to play jazz full-time in New York. With his jr. brother, cornetist Nat, Cannonball formed a quintet that struggled until its breakup in 1957. Adderley and then linked Miles Davis, forming part of his super sextette with John Coltrane and participating on such classical recordings as Milestones and Tolerant of Blue. Adderley's arcsecond attack to word form a little Phoebe with his brother was much more than successful for, in 1959, with piano player Bobby Timmons, he had a hit recording of "This Here." From and then on, Cannonball e'er was able to work steady with his band. During its Riverside old age (1959-1963), the Adderley Quintet in the first place played soulful renditions of hard bop and Cannonball rattling excelled in the straight-ahead settings. During 1962-1963, Yusef Lateef made the chemical group a sextette and piano player Joe Zawinul was an of import new member. The break of Riverside resulted in Adderley signing with Capitol and his recordings became step by step more commercial-grade. Charles Lloyd was in Lateef's place for a class (with less success) and then with his leaving the radical went endorse to beingness a quintette. Zawinul's 1966 musical composition "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" was a brobdingnagian come to for the mathematical group, Adderley started double on soprano, and the quintet's later recordings emphasised long strain statements, foetid rhythms, and electronics. However, during his last class, Cannonball Adderley was revisiting the yesteryear a spot and on Phenix he recorded novel versions of many of his before book of Numbers. But before he could evolve his music whatsoever further, Cannonball Adderley died of a sudden from a fortuity. |
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Gosling And McAdams Back On?
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams consume sparked meditation they are a couple again, after they were spotted going away home together after the actor's recent DJ debut. The late couple met on the set of 2004 flick The Notebook, and enjoyed a two-year relationship until they split last year . But the pair fuelled rumours of a reunification after they left Gosling's DJ set at Hollywood's Green Door club on Tuesday together. Gosling was allegedly heartsick by the split, previously branding McAdams as "one of the great loves of my life".
Thursday 26 June 2008
Wednesday 18 June 2008
The Coldplay list
Last week TimeOut got a sneak preview of Coldplay's new album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends - call it Viva for short - before its release on Monday. There's been much talk about it being Coldplay's Kid A, but never fear, it's still Coldplay and a minor revolution rather than a bloody one.These days they are more like a brand than a band, making the album one of the year's biggest releases. An example of the power Chris Martin and co wield in the music business lies in the fact that the performance of Viva is essential to the wellbeing of their record company, EMI. Here's some first impressions of what Viva sounds like to TimeOut and what the band have to say about it ...Life In TechnicolourWow. This two-minute, mostly instrumental intro, with Chris Martin's distinct, half-pained wail only adding "oh oh ohs" near the end, is so revolutionary. Actually, it's not at all and Martin agrees, labelling the riff "a good ringtone". However, what this Where The Streets Have No Name-style build-up reveals, is that the London lads do have an adventurous side and it signals their intention to do something different on album four rather than wheeling out the plodding, yet inviting and much-loved anthems of old.
"I didn't want to sing for a few minutes just so that people who didn't like us could enjoy it for a while," says Martin. "It comes out of insecurity but also confidence. It's that great dichotomy that we're very good at, which is feeling like we're the best band in the world but also feeling that we haven't done anything good yet."Cemeteries Of LondonHere they delve into the underbelly of their hometown, as if influenced by Damon Albarn's musical project The Good, the Bad, and the Queen, who also lurched and prowled the dark lanes of Londontown on their self-titled album last year. There's a flamenco, hand-clap groove running through it too, as if Martin and the chaps have been down the front, leaping around at Womad. It's still Coldplay but without the predictable structure, something the band say ambient music king and Viva producer Brian Eno (Talking Heads, U2) encouraged them to do by using everything from hypnotism to recording in churches in Barcelona."He brought life, freedom, drive, distortion, excitement, oddness, madness, sexuality, geekiness and Roxyness," says Martin.Lost!Lost! has a loping, unflinching beat with a heavy, organ-driven funereal mood. It stands out as the most beautiful moment on Viva. Although it's let down by Martin's frightful cliches like "big fish in a little pond" and "every river that you try to cross".
"I didn't want to sing for a few minutes just so that people who didn't like us could enjoy it for a while," says Martin. "It comes out of insecurity but also confidence. It's that great dichotomy that we're very good at, which is feeling like we're the best band in the world but also feeling that we haven't done anything good yet."Cemeteries Of LondonHere they delve into the underbelly of their hometown, as if influenced by Damon Albarn's musical project The Good, the Bad, and the Queen, who also lurched and prowled the dark lanes of Londontown on their self-titled album last year. There's a flamenco, hand-clap groove running through it too, as if Martin and the chaps have been down the front, leaping around at Womad. It's still Coldplay but without the predictable structure, something the band say ambient music king and Viva producer Brian Eno (Talking Heads, U2) encouraged them to do by using everything from hypnotism to recording in churches in Barcelona."He brought life, freedom, drive, distortion, excitement, oddness, madness, sexuality, geekiness and Roxyness," says Martin.Lost!Lost! has a loping, unflinching beat with a heavy, organ-driven funereal mood. It stands out as the most beautiful moment on Viva. Although it's let down by Martin's frightful cliches like "big fish in a little pond" and "every river that you try to cross".
Monday 9 June 2008
Olien
Artist: Olien
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Sounded Paratronic
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Christina Aguilera and baby son Max in 'Rock the Vote PSA': Photo
Sunday 1 June 2008
Passing Fancy - movie review
One of several early silent family comedies by Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu released
by the Criterion Collection, Passing Fancy is a delightful little tale with charming performances
and lots of prewar Japanese atmosphere to soak in.
Ne'er-do-well single dad Kihachi (Takeshi Sakamoto) hates his boring brewery work
and would much rather spend his afternoons drinking sake with Otome (Chouko Lida),
the widow who runs the restaurant next door, and his work buddy Jiro (Den Obinata).
Kihachi isn't much of a father figure to his impish son Tomio (Tomio Aoki), a smart but
wild kid who shows his disrespect for his dad by striking funny Karate Kid martial
arts poses in front of him.
The daily routines of the scruffy working-class neighborhood are thrown off by the
arrival of Harue (Nobuko Fushimi), a beautiful young woman looking to start a new
life in Tokyo. Otome immediately takes her in and Kihachi tries to woo her, but even
he admits he's too old for her and that Jiro would be a better match. But Jiro shows
no interest. Meanwhile, Tomio feels threatened by Harue's arrival, and he acts up
even more than usual. "I hate girl trouble," says Kihachi. "Seeking love is like
climbing a waterfall," opines Otome.
This mini-domestic drama plays out in predictable ways, but it's not the plot that's
the attraction here. What's much more interesting are the amusing details with which
Ozu fills every frame. The movie begins with a great scene at a storyteller's performan
ce where a coin purse is dropped and various members of the audience pick it up to
rifle through it, only to toss it aside when they discover it's empty. Each time
someone tosses it, someone else picks it up to check it out, until Kihachi, noticing
it's bigger than his, transfers his coins into it and tosses his own coin purse to the
floor.
Later, in a fit of pique, little Tomio trashes Dad's beloved plant, and when Kihachi
asks if he did it, Tomio bravely tells the truth, just like George Washington when
he chopped down the cherry tree, the boy haughtily explains. "Aw, what's so great
about the truth?" grumbles Kihachi.
It's also funny to observe that throughout the film, almost every character is constantly
scratching himself as if to indicate that all of old Edo is infested with fleas.
Even when Tomio is crying hysterically he takes a moment to thoughtfully scratch
his chest and shins, and Kihachi is always mopping his brow with a small towel he keeps
perched atop his head in old Japanese style. It's a rough life in this paper-walled
slum, but life does go on happily, as long as everyone maintains low expectations.
Film school types will take note of Ozu trademarks that came to full fruition much
later making early appearances here, most notably the floor-level shots and the interesting
pillow shots (Ozu has a thing for giant natural gas storage tanks). The addition of a bouncy
piano score makes Passing Fancy a fun 100 minutes.
Aka Dekikogoro.
I've got an itch.
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