Sentences with phrase «significant health advantage»

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It's important to realize that the most significant advantage that vegan butter has over dairy butter isn't health related at all.

One significant advantage is that anyone can purchase one of these plans, regardless of health, blood pressure, or any pre-existing conditions.

A group plan can provide significant advantages including discounts and streamlined health underwriting.

With its emphasis upon psychosocial dimensions of health, it offers significant advantages for evaluation studies where these dimensions are important.

Obesity researchers who included measures of binge eating in studies on obesity treatment concluded that BWL was effective and that there was no need for specialty therapies.12, 13 Limitations of these studies included small sample sizes, lack of longer - term follow - up, and self - report measures of binge eating rather than the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) semi-structured interview.14 Potential advantages of BWL are that it results in clinically significant short - term weight loss and can be implemented by a wider range of health professionals than a specialty psychological therapy.

While there is strong evidence supporting effectiveness of collaborative care for adult depression, Richardson et al's study adds to results of two other studies in supporting the value of collaborative care models for adolescent depression: (1) using a similar model, Asarnow et al1 found significant advantages for collaborative depression care versus usual care (UC); (2) using a stronger medication treatment as usual condition, collaborative care with psychotherapy plus medication yielded a marginal advantage on depressive symptoms and significant advantage on mental health - related quality of...

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

You have a significant advantage in overcoming every aspect of your health, fitness and life challenges.