Exploring the Adventist Health-lifestyle: A Social Marketing Perspective

Some studies have linked the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church health-lifestyle with better wellbeing and longevity. However, there are suggestions that current initiatives by the SDA-church to prompt health behavior modifications have been inadequate. Current attempts seem to be largely downstream approaches without clear marketing guidelines. While social marketing has been noted to be a key success factor in behavior modification initiatives, it does not seem to have been used in promoting SDA health-lifestyle initiatives. Hence the study sought to bring in a social marketing perspective to the current initiatives being done to make the SDA health-lifestyle modifications attainable for more people. A multi-method design combining grounded theory and appreciative inquiry was used. Data was collected from SDA-public health academics and practitioners, health-lifestyle program participants as well as social marketing extant studies and models. The sources of data were 30 interviews, 20 extant studies on social marketing, 5 social marketing models and 5 forum presentations. The major finding of the study is a social marketing theory for SDA health-lifestyle modification suggesting that health-lifestyle behavior modification is driven by centers of influence that run benchmarked programs shaped by distinctively Adventist worldview, and guided via marketing design criteria. Social marketing is suggested as the missing link that makes it easier to implement health-lifestyle behavior adoption efforts.

Glucose Control and Behavior Psychology of a T2D Patient using GH-Method: Mentality-Personality Modeling via Math-Physical Medicine (No. 306)

In this article, the author used 10-years’ worth of data of glucoses and prominent lifestyle details such as diet and exercise to address his glucose trend pattern analysis and progressive lifestyle behavior modifications. This progressive lifestyle behavior modification is closely related to behavior psychology. The research methodology used is the GH-Method: math-physical medicine (MPM) approach which has been developed by the author over the past decade. This “Progressive Behavior Modification concept is also a part of his Mentality-Personality Modeling (MPM). He addresses the quantitative linkage between diabetes physiological phenomena and behavior psychological influences of a type 2 diabetes (T2D) patient

Using progressive lifestyle modifications via alternative medicine to control both body weight and glucose (GH-Method: math-physical medicine No. 309)

In this article, the author used 10-years’ worth of data of glucoses and prominent lifestyle details such as diet and exercise to address his glucose trend pattern analysis and progressive lifestyle behavior modifications. This progressive lifestyle behavior modification is closely related to behavior psychology. The research methodology used is the GH-Method: math-physical medicine (MPM) approach which has been developed by the author over the past decade. This “Progressive Behavior Modification” concept is also a part of his Mentality-Personality Modeling (MPM). He addresses the quantitative linkage between the physiological phenomena for diabetes and obesity along with the behavior psychological influences of a patient with chronic diseases. Food and exercise are important elements of alternative medicine that serve as the major influential factors in controlling glucose and weight, not medications.

Weight Control Trend Analysis and Progressive Behavior Modification of a T2D Patient Using GH-Method: Math-Physical Medicine (No. 307)

In this article, the author used 10-years’ worth of data of glucoses and prominent lifestyle details such as diet and exercise to address weight reduction trend pattern and his progressive lifestyle behavior modifications. The research methodology used is the GH-Method: math-physical medicine (MPM) approach which has been developed by the author over the past decade. This “Progressive Behavior Modification” concept is also a part of his Mentality-Personality Modeling (MPM). He addresses the quantitative linkage between obesity physiological phenomena and behavior psychological influences of an obese patient.

Weight Control Trend Analysis and Progressive Behavior Modification of a T2D Patient Using GH-Method: Math-Physical Medicine (No. 307)

In this article, the author used 10-years’ worth of data of glucoses and prominent lifestyle details such as diet and exercise to address weight reduction trend pattern and his progressive lifestyle behavior modifications. The research methodology used is the GH-Method: math-physical medicine (MPM) approach which has been developed by the author over the past decade. This “Progressive Behavior Modification” concept is also a part of his Mentality-Personality Modeling (MPM). He addresses the quantitative linkage between obesity physiological phenomena and behavior psychological influences of an obese patient.

Helicopter Parenting Style and Parental Accommodations: The Moderating Role of Internalizing and Externalizing Symptomatology

High parental involvement has been linked to positive outcomes; however, helicopter parenting may result in negative outcomes. The behaviors demonstrated by “helicopter parents” resemble parental accommodations, which are behavior modifications intended to alleviate their child’s distress. The current study examined the relation between helicopter parenting and parental accommodations, while also examining child internalizing and externalizing symptomatology as possible moderators. Parents ( N = 400) of children (ages 4–11) from across the United States completed surveys and rating scales. Parents, who endorsed higher levels of helicopter parenting, endorsed significantly higher levels of accommodations than parents who endorsed lower levels of helicopter parenting. Results suggested helicopter parenting differed depending on the types of accommodations provided. This study provides additional clarity for the construct of helicopter parenting and suggests that parents higher in this construct may exhibit difficulties related to accommodating their child’s diagnostic symptoms.

Strain-rate dependent material properties of selective laser melted AlSi10Mg and AlSi3.5Mg2.5

This paper investigates the mechanical properties of two selective lasermelted aluminum alloys (AlSi10Mg and AlSi3.5Mg2.5) under high strain-rate uniaxial loading. Accelerated tensile tests were performed under various strain-rate decades (.ε = 4.7 × 10-3 up to 250 s-1) to determine the load-speed-specific changes in the mechanical properties. As a result of the primary laser-based shaping process, the microstructure and characteristics change was entirely comparable to the conventional manufacturing of aluminum parts. Based on an ultrafine microstructure, parts achieve high strength along with a brittle fracture behavior. Modifications for applications requiring high ductility (e. g., the crashloaded structural parts of a car body) can be made through specific heat treatment strategies. The experimental results demonstrate that a significant increase in ductility (factors 4-5) with a concurrent decrease in strength can be obtained compared to the as-built state. In high-speed tests, the tensile strength of both alloys rose strain-rate dependently around 10 %, and the elongation at break increased relatively by ≈ 15 % for AlSi10Mg and ≈ 10 % for AlSi3.5Mg2.5.

The Hazards of Abdominal Obesity

Abdominal obesitywith a big belly is one of the worse type of morbid obesity that is associated with different health failure outcomes. Central obesity leads to an increased risk of health complications such as metabolic syndrome, hypertension, insulin resistance,type 2 diabetes, heart disease and various cancers. Abdominal obesity also can specifically cause to spinal nerve pain and backache. Depression and disability are other subsequent hazards of central fatness. More importantly ,excessive central body fat ultimately contributes in all-causes of early mortality. In regards to this, individuals with abdominal obesity is urgently needed to reduce central obesity using behavior modifications. Changes in diet and performing some exercise in everyday living are essential steps.

Public Health Intervention Framework for Reviving Economy Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic (1): A Concept

The COVID-19 pandemic has great adverse impacts on personal life, the U.S. economy, and the world economy. Freezing all human activities is not a sustainable measure. Thus we want to develop a public intervention framework that allows people to resume personal and economic activities. In this article, we examined transmission routes, disease severity, personal vulnerability, available treatments, and person-person interactions to establish a general public intervention framework. We divide people into risk groups, non-risk group and group that may serve as viral transmitters, explore interactions between individual persons within each group and between different groups, and propose interaction behavior modifications to mitigate viral exposures. For the non-risk groups, we identified preventive measures that can help them avoid the most serious exposures and infections that pose higher death risks. The invention measures for the vulnerable groups include prior-exposure measures, heightened protective measures, interaction behavior changes, post-exposure remedial measures, and multiple factors treatments to reduce death and disability risks. The multiple interventions and two-ways defensive behavior modifications are expected to result in reduced rate of detectable infections and lowered disease severity for the vulnerable groups. In this framework, most human activities and economic activities can continue as normal. With time passing, the population acquires population immunity against the COVID-19 virus. Implementation of this intervention framework requires considerable resources and governmental effects while the multiple factors treatment protocol requires the support of health care professionals.