Tai chi and hearts

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Tai chi may have positive effects for those with chronic heart failure. One hundred patients participated in a twelve week trial where one group of patients took a heart health education class. One performed tai chi twice a week.

Gloria Yeh is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

“This twelve week program of tai chi improved patients’ quality of life and mood in heart failure, and increased their confidence to engage in exercise.” (11 seconds)

Patients with heart failure tend to have a decreased capacity for exercise.

“Tai chi appears to be gentle, non-threatening, and it just may be that suitable exercise for these heart failure patients.” (8 seconds)

The study supported by the National Institutes of Health was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

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Wild weather patterns will lead to health risks and other woes

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians who are already experiencing bad floods in parts of the country have to further brace themselves for extreme weather conditions in coming years. With the worsening weather conditions, health risks will also escalate.

The Meteorological Department says communicable diseases such as malaria, dengue and others are highly climate-sensitive and will worsen with changing global weather patterns.

Other developments include:

> Climate variability associated with the El Nino and La Nina phenomena has increased the average temperatures of the country by between 0.5 °C and 1.5 °C;

> The region will face rising sea levels, droughts, landslides and forest fires;

> Clean air, safe drinking water and secure shelter will be adversely affected;

> Crop yields will be reduced while weeds and pests will proliferate; and

> Reports say that the changing environment in South-East Asia is responsible for up to a quarter of all deaths in the region.

Source: Wild weather patterns will lead to health risks and other woes

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