Physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged Japanese women with mild obesity: A pilot study

This study aimed to verify the effectiveness of an overall health care program (OHCP) for middle-aged Japanese women through assessing physical and physiological changes. The OHCP consisted of diet modification with natural alternative foods, walking and stretching exercises, and body massage and cu...

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Autores principales: Amano, Sho, Tsubone, Hirokazu, Hanafusa, Masakazu, Yamasaki, Takeshi, Nishizaka, Saiko, Yanagisawa, Hiroshi
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Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26151017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcme.2014.11.011
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author Amano, Sho
Tsubone, Hirokazu
Hanafusa, Masakazu
Yamasaki, Takeshi
Nishizaka, Saiko
Yanagisawa, Hiroshi
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Tsubone, Hirokazu
Hanafusa, Masakazu
Yamasaki, Takeshi
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description This study aimed to verify the effectiveness of an overall health care program (OHCP) for middle-aged Japanese women through assessing physical and physiological changes. The OHCP consisted of diet modification with natural alternative foods, walking and stretching exercises, and body massage and cupping treatments. Sixty-seven participants were assigned to one of three groups during a 3-year study period (2011–2013). The OHCP was performed for 3 months in each year. After the OHCP, most participants had significant decreases in the blood levels of triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, alkaline phosphatase, γ-glutamyl transferase, and cholinesterase; body weight; body fat percentage; and body-mass index. The oxidative stress markers varied among the study years; however, a significant decrease in blood reactive oxygen-derived metabolites and a significant increase in the relative antioxidative potential were observed in 2013. In 2013, participants who were randomly selected for autonomic nervous activity measurements immediately before and after body massage and cupping treatments showed a significant predominance in parasympathetic nervous activity after the treatments. These results indicate that the OHCP in the present study is an effective and prompt method as a complementary treatment to improve the pre-obese or mild obese status without any noticeable physiological stress in most middle-aged women. However, because of the limitations of this study, the findings of this study need to be confirmed.
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spelling pubmed-44881032015-07-06 Physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged Japanese women with mild obesity: A pilot study Amano, Sho Tsubone, Hirokazu Hanafusa, Masakazu Yamasaki, Takeshi Nishizaka, Saiko Yanagisawa, Hiroshi J Tradit Complement Med Original Article This study aimed to verify the effectiveness of an overall health care program (OHCP) for middle-aged Japanese women through assessing physical and physiological changes. The OHCP consisted of diet modification with natural alternative foods, walking and stretching exercises, and body massage and cupping treatments. Sixty-seven participants were assigned to one of three groups during a 3-year study period (2011–2013). The OHCP was performed for 3 months in each year. After the OHCP, most participants had significant decreases in the blood levels of triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, total cholesterol, alkaline phosphatase, γ-glutamyl transferase, and cholinesterase; body weight; body fat percentage; and body-mass index. The oxidative stress markers varied among the study years; however, a significant decrease in blood reactive oxygen-derived metabolites and a significant increase in the relative antioxidative potential were observed in 2013. In 2013, participants who were randomly selected for autonomic nervous activity measurements immediately before and after body massage and cupping treatments showed a significant predominance in parasympathetic nervous activity after the treatments. These results indicate that the OHCP in the present study is an effective and prompt method as a complementary treatment to improve the pre-obese or mild obese status without any noticeable physiological stress in most middle-aged women. However, because of the limitations of this study, the findings of this study need to be confirmed. Elsevier 2015-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4488103/ /pubmed/26151017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcme.2014.11.011 Text en Copyright © 2014, Center for Food and Biomolecules, National Taiwan University. Production and hosting by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Amano, Sho
Tsubone, Hirokazu
Hanafusa, Masakazu
Yamasaki, Takeshi
Nishizaka, Saiko
Yanagisawa, Hiroshi
Physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged Japanese women with mild obesity: A pilot study
title Physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged Japanese women with mild obesity: A pilot study
title_full Physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged Japanese women with mild obesity: A pilot study
title_fullStr Physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged Japanese women with mild obesity: A pilot study
title_full_unstemmed Physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged Japanese women with mild obesity: A pilot study
title_short Physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged Japanese women with mild obesity: A pilot study
title_sort physical and physiological effectiveness of an overall health care program for middle-aged japanese women with mild obesity: a pilot study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26151017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcme.2014.11.011
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