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CONTENTS (see Resources submenu for individual sections)

Articles

  • Diet/Nutrition
  • Exercise Capacity (Cardiorespiratory Fitness)
  • Exercise Is Medicine
  • Insulin Resistance
  • Interval Training
  • Lifestyle Modification (Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes)
  • Medicalization, Overdiagnosis, and Overtreatment
  • Metabolic Syndrome (MetSyn)
  • NAFLD (Non-Alcohlic Fatty Liver Disease)
  • Physical Activity & Exercise
  • PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome)
  • Strength (Resistance) Training
  • Type 2 Diabetes

 Books

  • Diet/Nutrition
  • Expert Patient
  • Habits & Willpower
  • Physical Activity & Exercise
  • Risk

Websites

  • Diet/Nutrition
  • Expert Patient
  • Medications/Drugs
  • Physical Activity & Exercise

 

❖ ARTICLES

  • ’PMID’ stands for the U.S. National Library of Medicine PubMed Identification Number. To access the article abstract, simply enter the identification number into the search box at the top of the PubMed home page. The PubMed abstracts sometimes provide direct links to the full journal article.
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◊ Diet/Nutrition

Feinman RD, Vernon MC, Westman EC. Low carbohydrate diets in family practice: what can we learn from an internet-based support group? Nutr J. 2006 Oct 2;5:26. PMID: 17014706. FFT.

Gardner CD, Kiazand A, Alhassan S, et al. Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN diets for change in weight and related risk factors among overweight premenopausal women. the A to Z Weight Loss Study: a randomized trial. JAMA 2007 Mar 7; 297:969-977. PMID: 17341711. FFT.

Heshka S, Anderson JW, Atkinson RL. Weight loss with self-help compared with a structured commercial program. JAMA 2003 Apr 9;289:1792-1798. PMID: 12684357. FFT.

Jolly K, Lewis A, Beach J, et al. Comparison of range of commercial or primary care led weight reduction programmes with minimal intervention control for weight loss in obesity: Lighten Up randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2011 Nov 3;343:d6500. PMID: 22053315. FFT.

Rolls BJ, Drewnowski A, Ledikwe JH. Changing the energy density of the diet as a strategy for weight management. J Am Diet Assoc. 2005 May;105(5 Suppl 1):S98-103. Review. PMID: 15867904. PDF available through Google Scholar.

Rolls BJ, Roe LS, Meengs JS. Reductions in portion size and energy density of  foods are additive and lead to sustained decreases in energy intake. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 Jan;83(1):11-7. PMID: 16400043. FFT.

Sacks FM, Bray GA, Carey VJ, et al. Comparison of weight-loss diets with different compositions of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. N Engl J Med. 2009 Feb 26;360(9):859-73. PMID: 19246357. FFT.

Shai I, Schwarzfuchs D, Henkin Y, et al.; Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT) Group. Weight loss with a low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or low-fat diet. N Engl J Med. 2008 Jul 17;359(3):229-41. PMID: 18635428. FFT.

◊ Exercise Capacity (Cardiorespiratory Fitness)

Franklin BA, McCullough PA. Cardiorespiratory fitness: an independent and additive marker of risk stratification and health outcomes. Mayo Clin Proc. 2009 Sep;84(9):776-9. PMID: 19720774. 

Gulati M, Pandey DK, Arnsdorf MF, et al. Exercise capacity and the risk of death in women: the St. James Women Take Heart Project. Circulation. 2003 Sep 30;108(13):1554-9. PMID: 12975254. FFT. 

Gulati M, Black HR, Shaw LJ, et al. The prognostic value of a nomogram for exercise capacity in women. N Engl J Med. 2005 Aug 4;353(5):468-75. PMID: 16079370. FFT.

Harber MP, Kaminsky LA, Arena R, et al. Impact of cardiorespiratory fitness on all-cause and disease-specific mortality: advances since 2009. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2017 Jun – Jul;60(1):11-20. Review. PMID: 28286137. FFT.

Kodama S, Saito K, Tanaka S, et al. Cardiorespiratory fitness as a quantitative predictor of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in healthy men and women: a meta-analysis. JAMA. 2009 May 20;301(19):2024-35. PMID: 19454641. 

Kokkinos P, Myers J, Faselis C, et al. Exercise capacity and mortality in older men. A 20-year follow-up study. Circulation. 2010 Aug 24;122(8):790-7. PMID: 20697029. FFT. ExCap 8/11/10; abs. 

Ross R, Blair SN, Arena R, et al. Importance of assessing cardiorespiratory fitness in clinical practice: a case for fitness as a clinical vital sign: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2016 Dec 13;134(24):e653-e699. PMID: 27881567. FFT.

◊ Exercise Is Medicine

Buford TW, Roberts MD, Church TS. Toward exercise as personalized medicine. Sports Med. 2013 Mar;43(3) 157-65. Review. PMID: 23382011.

Johannsen NM, Swift DL, Lavie CJ, et al. Combined aerobic and resistance training effects on glucose homeostasis, fitness, and other major health indices: a review of current guidelines. Sports Med. 2016 Dec;46(12):1809-1818. Review. PMID: 27142533.

Pedersen BK, Saltin B. Exercise as medicine – evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2015 Dec;25 Suppl 3:1-72.  Review. PMID: 26606383.

◊ Insulin Resistance

Erion DM, Shulman GI. Diacylglycerol-mediated insulin resistance. Nat Med. 2010 Apr;16(4):400-2. PMID: 20376053.

Hoeks J, Schrauwen P. Muscle mitochondria and insulin resistance: a human perspective. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2012 Sep;23(9):444-50. PMID: 22726362.

Jornayvaz FR, Shulman GI. Diacylglycerol activation of protein kinase Cε and hepatic insulin resistance. Cell Metab. 2012 May 2;15(5):574-84. Review. PMID: 22560210. FFT.

Perry RJ, Samuel VT, Petersen KF, et al. The role of hepatic lipids in hepatic insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Nature. 2014 Jun 5;510(7503):84-91. PMID: 24899308.

Petersen KF, Dufour S, Savage DB, et al. The role of skeletal muscle insulin resistance in the pathogenesis of the  metabolic syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 31;104(31):12587-94. PMID: 17640906. FFT.

Petersen KF, Befroy D, Dufour S, et al. Mitochondrial dysfunction in the elderly: possible role in insulin resistance. Science. 2003 May 16;300(5622):1140-2. PMID: 12750520. FFT.

Petersen MC, Shulman GI. Mechanisms of insulin action and insulin resistance. Physiol Rev. 2018 Oct 1;98(4):2133-2223. PMID: 30067154.

Samuel VT, Shulman GI. Mechanisms for insulin resistance: common threads and missing links. Cell. 2012 Mar 2;148(5):852-71. PMID: 22385956. FFT.

◊ Interval Training

Gibala MJ, Little JP, Macdonald MJ, Hawley JA. Physiological adaptations to low-volume, high intensity interval training in health and disease. J Physiol. 2012 Mar 1;590(Pt 5):1077-84. Review. PMID: 22289907. FFT.

Gillen JB, Gibala MJ. Is high-intensity interval training a time-efficient exercise strategy to improve health and fitness? Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2014 Mar;39(3):409-12. PMID: 24552392.

Milanović Z, Sporiš G, Weston M. Effectiveness of high-intensity training (HIT) and continuous endurance training for VO2max improvements: a systematic review and meta-anlaysis of controlled trials. Sports Med. 2015 Oct;45(10):1469-81. PMID: 26243014.

Weston M, Taylor KL, Batterham AM, Hopkins WG. Effects of low-volume high-intensity interval training (HIT) on fitness in adults: a meta-analysis of controlled and non-controlled trials. Sports Med. 2014 Jul;44(7):1005-17. Review. PMID: 24743927.

◊ Lifestyle Modification (Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes)

Eckel RH, Jakicic JM, Ard JD, et al. 2013 AHA/ACC guideline on lifestyle management to reduce cardiovascular risk: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Jul 1;63(25 Pt B):2960-84. PMID: 24239922. FFT.

Wadden TA, Webb VL, Moran CH, Bailer BA. Lifestyle modification for obesity: new developments in diet, physical activity, and behavior therapy. Circulation. 2012 Mar 6;125(9):1157-70. Review. PMID: 22392863. FFT.

◊ NAFLD (Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease)

Birkenfeld AL, Shulman GI. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatic insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. Hepatology. 2014 Feb;59(2):713-23. Review. PMID: 23929732. FFT.

Hashida R, Kawaguchi T, Bekki M, et al. Aerobic vs. resistance exercise in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease:  A systematic review. J Hepatol. 2017 Jan;66(1):142-152. PMID: 27639843.

Romero-Gómez M, Zelber-Sagi S, Trenell M. Treatment of NAFLD with diet, physical activity and exercise. J Hepatol. 2017 Oct;67(4):829-846. Review. PMID: 28545937.

Samuel VT, Shulman GI. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease as a nexus of metabolic and hepatic diseases. Cell Metab. 2018 Jan 9;27(1):22-41. Review. PMID: 28867301.

◊ Physical Activity & Exercise

American College of Sports Medicine. American College of Sports Medicine position stand. Progression models in resistance training for healthy adults. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2009 Mar;41(3):687-708. PMID: 19204579.

Donnelly JE, Blair SN, Jakicic JM, et al; American College of Sports Medicine. American College of Sports Medicine Position Stand. Appropriate physical activity intervention strategies for weight loss and prevention of weight regain for adults. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2009 Feb;41(2):459-71. PMID: 19127177. 

Haskell WL, Lee IM, Pate RR, et al; American College of Sports Medicine; American Heart Association. Physical activity and public health: updated recommendation for adults from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2007 Aug 28;116(9):1081-93. PMID: 17671237. FFT.

◊ Type 2 Diabetes

Colberg SR, Sigal RJ, Yardley JE, et al. Physical activity/exercise and diabetes: a position statement of the American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Care. 2016 Nov;39(11):2065-2079. Review. PMID: 27926890. FFT.

Lean ME, Leslie WS, Barnes AC, et al. Primary care-led weight management for remission of type 2 diabetes (DiRECT): an open-label, cluster-randomised trial. Lancet. 2018 Feb 10;391(10120):541-551. PMID: 29221645.

Lim EL, Hollingsworth KG, Aribisala BS, et al. Reversal of type 2 diabetes: normalisation of beta cell function in association with decreased pancreas and liver triacylglycerol. Diabetologia. 2011 Oct;54(10):2506-14. PMID: 21656330. fPMC.

Petersen KF, Dufour S, Befroy D, et al. Reversal of nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis, hepatic insulin resistance, and hyperglycemia by moderate weight reduction in patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 2005 Mar; 54:603–608. PMID: 15734833. FFT.

Sattar N, Gill JM. Type 2 diabetes as a disease of ectopic fat? BMC Med. 2014 Aug 26;12:123.  PMID: 25159817. fPMC.

Taylor R. Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes: tracing the reverse route from cure to cause. Review. Diabetologia. 2008 Oct;51(10):1781-9. PMID: 18726585.

Taylor R. Type 2 diabetes: etiology and reversibility. Diabetes Care. 2013 Apr;36(4):1047-55. PMID: 23520370. FFT.

Taylor R, Al-Mrabeh A, Zhyzhneuskaya S, et al. Remission of human type 2 diabetes requires decrease in liver and pancreas fat content but is dependent upon capacity for β cell recovery. Cell Metab. 2018 Jul 24; 28:1-10. PMID: 30078554.

❖ BOOKS

A. Habits & Willpower

Akst, Daniel. We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess. c2011.

Baumeister, Roy, and John Tierney. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. c2011.

Dean, Jeremy. Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don’t, and How to Make Any Change Stick. c2013.

Duckworth, Angel. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. c2016.

Duhigg, Charles. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. c2012.

McGonigal, Kelly. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It. c2012.

Oettinggen, Gabriel. Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation. c2014.

B. Diet

Brand-Miller, Jennie,  et al. The New Glucose Revolution. 3rd edition, c2007.

Cordain, Loren. The Paleo Diet. c2011 (revised edition).

Freedhoff, Yoni. The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work. c2014.

Guiliano, Mireille. French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure. c2005

Rolls, Barbara. The Ultimate Volumetrics Diet. c2000.

Wansink, Brian. Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think. c2010.

Westman, Eric C., Stephen D. Phinney, and Jeff S. Volek. The New Atkins for a New You. c2010.

Walter C. Willett. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy. c2001.

C. Physical Activity & Exercise

Segar, Michelle. No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness. c2015.

Simon, Harvey B. The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer. c2006.

Nelson, Miriam. Strong Women Stay Young. c2005.

Westcott, Wayne, and Thomas R. Baechle. Strength Training Past 50. 3rd edltion. c2015.

D. Expert Patient (how to be a well-prepared patient)

Irwig, Les, Judy Irwig, Lyndal Trevena, and Melissa Sweet. Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice. c2008.

Welch, H. Gilbert, Lisa M. Schwartz, Steven Woloshin. Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health. c2011.

Woloshin, Steven, Lisa M. Schwartz, H. Gilbert Welch. Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics. c2008.

❖ WEBSITES

◊ Diet/Nutrition 

◊ Physical Activity & Exercise

◊ Expert Patient Resources

  • Discern (quality criteria for consumer health information)
  • Lab Tests Online  – American Association for Clinical Chemistry
  • MedlinePlus – U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
  • NNT (number needed to treat; quick summaries of evidence-based medicine)
  • PEDro – Physiotherapy Evidence Database

◊ Medications/Drugs

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