THURSDAY, March 29 — Doctors may fail to detect precancerous growths if patients’ colons aren’t adequately cleansed before having a colonoscopy, a new study warns.

On the day before a colonoscopy, patients are instructed to stop eating solid food and to consume only clear liquids. They also drink bowel-cleansing mixtures to empty the colon.

However, previous research suggests that up to one-quarter of colonoscopy patients fail to adequately cleanse their colons. The new study, from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, examined the potential consequences of poor bowel preparation.

Researchers identified 373 patients who underwent a colonoscopy between 2004 and 2009, and had inadequate bowel preparation.

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Getting to your favorite classes at the gym isnt always easy, and you may have bought some home workout videos for the days getting to the gym is as possible as getting your child to do their chores. Yet, after a while those workout videos begin to collect dust because you cant bare the thought of doing the exact same routine one more time. So what do you do?

Realizing this is an issue, Yu Hannah Kim helped co-found and is president of Youble.com. The website was created based on Kims belief that high quality fitness training should be available to everyone at their convenience.

It offers over 10 different classes including Balletone, a registered trademark that is a fusion of fitness, and yoga sequences ending with barre and stretching.

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In the struggle to lose weight and gain a fit, sculpted body, have you considered turning to protein as an ally?

Essential to any animal’s diet, proteins and their component amino acids play a role in virtually every cellular process. Most importantly to those trying to maintain good health and lose extra fat, proteins are the literal ‘building blocks’ of muscle. Without them, no muscle growth would even be possible.

During weight loss, a quality protein will help keep your muscles from degrading and disappearing along with the fat, allowing them to grow when it seems like everything else is shrinking.

After a punishing workout, having ample protein in your system will prevent a reaction called muscle catabolism. This

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March 26, 2012 — Don’t take this sitting down, but spending too much time in a chair is bad for your health — really, really bad.

New research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that people who spend a lot of time sitting may be up to 40% more likely to die from any cause, compared to people who don’t sit as long.

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