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Internet can act as a personal trainer: Study
May 16, 2007, 10:06 am
Using the Internet can help motivate inactive adults to get up off the couch, researchers said on Monday, in a finding that could put some personal trainers out of work.
Researchers at Rhode Island's Miriam Hospital, an affiliate of Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, found people who took part in a tailored Internet exercise program went from doing virtually no exercise to an average of two hours a week.
After 6 months of following a tailored Internet program, users were exercising 120 minutes per week, they reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday.
This was better than two comparison groups, with users of mailed, printed programs exercising 112.5 minutes a week while people who accessed standard Internet activity programs were exercising 90 minutes.
The researchers studied 249 healthy, sedentary adults from Rhode Island and Pittsburgh who were selected randomly to take part in one of the three physical activity programs.
To measure whether the volunteers became more fit, the researchers measured their use of oxygen while exercising. Overall, they found everyone had on average a 5.2 per cent improvement in fitness at 6 months, and a 5.9 per cent improvement at 12 months.
The most popular form of exercise was walking.
Researcher Bess Marcus, who worked on the study, said the motivational program worked like a counseling session, helping people find the barriers that kept them from exercising.
She said her team was a bit worried about using a sedentary activity like the Internet to motivate people to exercise, but people did not spend much time sitting in front of their computers. They typically logged on for about 5 minutes to ask a question or record their activity and then logged off.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends regular, moderate-intensity physical activity, such as 30 minutes of brisk walking, five or more times a week.
The US Institute of Medicine has said people need far more than that--up to an hour virtually every day.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Researchers at Rhode Island's Miriam Hospital, an affiliate of Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, found people who took part in a tailored Internet exercise program went from doing virtually no exercise to an average of two hours a week.
After 6 months of following a tailored Internet program, users were exercising 120 minutes per week, they reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday.
This was better than two comparison groups, with users of mailed, printed programs exercising 112.5 minutes a week while people who accessed standard Internet activity programs were exercising 90 minutes.
The researchers studied 249 healthy, sedentary adults from Rhode Island and Pittsburgh who were selected randomly to take part in one of the three physical activity programs.
To measure whether the volunteers became more fit, the researchers measured their use of oxygen while exercising. Overall, they found everyone had on average a 5.2 per cent improvement in fitness at 6 months, and a 5.9 per cent improvement at 12 months.
The most popular form of exercise was walking.
Researcher Bess Marcus, who worked on the study, said the motivational program worked like a counseling session, helping people find the barriers that kept them from exercising.
She said her team was a bit worried about using a sedentary activity like the Internet to motivate people to exercise, but people did not spend much time sitting in front of their computers. They typically logged on for about 5 minutes to ask a question or record their activity and then logged off.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends regular, moderate-intensity physical activity, such as 30 minutes of brisk walking, five or more times a week.
The US Institute of Medicine has said people need far more than that--up to an hour virtually every day.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train a reality soon
May 16, 2007, 10:03 am
BULLET trains may soon be a reality in the country. The Railway Ministry is planning to start initial feasibility studies in the next two-three months to identify routes for constructing high-speed rail corridors.
Speaking on the sidelines of a seminar on High Speed Corridors on Indian Railways on Tuesday, JP Batra Chairman Railway Board said, “We will be starting formal feasibility studies on four routes soon. We have written to various state governments who have given an in-principle approval to the proposal.
Possible routes include
Mumbai-Surat-Vadodara-Ahmedabad; Jaipur-Delhi-Sonepat-Chandigarh-Ludhiana-Jallandhar-Amritsar; Bangalore-Chennai; Kolkata-Jamshedpur-Patna.
Approvals have been given by Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan for the northern region, Gujarat and Maharashtra for the West, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka for the south and Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal for the east.
The railways had earlier carried out ridership studies on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route and Delhi-Amritsar route and feels that bullet trains will have enough traffic, Batra said.
The ministry will now appoint a consultant for the feasibility studies, he said. The consultant would also work out the cost of construction and a funding model.
The high-speed corridors are expected to cost about Rs 40 crore per kilometre, Batra said and so the railways are keen to go in for the private-public partnership route. Commenting on the funding Batra said, “We are looking for a financing model where the Centre, the states and the private player will all have equity in the project.”
However, the bullet trains will not come cheap. Each of the corridors is expected to cost about Rs 25,000 crore , excluding the cost of land. The railways hope to get about Rs 11,000 crore from its riders, Rs 5,000 crore as equity and another Rs 4,000 crore as viability gap funding
Batra said the train fares would be outside the normal fare structure. Passengers will have to shell out the same amount as a Rajdhani AC two-tier ticket costs, he added. This is in keeping with the ministry’s aim to woo the passengers of low-cost airlines, lost upper class passengers, long distance cars and luxury buses.
Speaking at the conference, Geetam Tiwari professor IIT (Delhi) said “High speed trains are more environment friendly and consume less energy as compared to road sector.” Running such trains in India, will be a good move, she added.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com
Speaking on the sidelines of a seminar on High Speed Corridors on Indian Railways on Tuesday, JP Batra Chairman Railway Board said, “We will be starting formal feasibility studies on four routes soon. We have written to various state governments who have given an in-principle approval to the proposal.
Possible routes include
Mumbai-Surat-Vadodara-Ahmedabad; Jaipur-Delhi-Sonepat-Chandigarh-Ludhiana-Jallandhar-Amritsar; Bangalore-Chennai; Kolkata-Jamshedpur-Patna.
Approvals have been given by Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan for the northern region, Gujarat and Maharashtra for the West, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka for the south and Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal for the east.
The railways had earlier carried out ridership studies on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route and Delhi-Amritsar route and feels that bullet trains will have enough traffic, Batra said.
The ministry will now appoint a consultant for the feasibility studies, he said. The consultant would also work out the cost of construction and a funding model.
The high-speed corridors are expected to cost about Rs 40 crore per kilometre, Batra said and so the railways are keen to go in for the private-public partnership route. Commenting on the funding Batra said, “We are looking for a financing model where the Centre, the states and the private player will all have equity in the project.”
However, the bullet trains will not come cheap. Each of the corridors is expected to cost about Rs 25,000 crore , excluding the cost of land. The railways hope to get about Rs 11,000 crore from its riders, Rs 5,000 crore as equity and another Rs 4,000 crore as viability gap funding
Batra said the train fares would be outside the normal fare structure. Passengers will have to shell out the same amount as a Rajdhani AC two-tier ticket costs, he added. This is in keeping with the ministry’s aim to woo the passengers of low-cost airlines, lost upper class passengers, long distance cars and luxury buses.
Speaking at the conference, Geetam Tiwari professor IIT (Delhi) said “High speed trains are more environment friendly and consume less energy as compared to road sector.” Running such trains in India, will be a good move, she added.
Courtesy : Expressindia.com