Challenging the Good Life: An Institutional Theoretic Investigation of Consumers' Transformational Process Toward Sustainable Living.

In pursuit of sustainable living, ethics researchers as well as consumers themselves have challenged the status quo of consumption as an institution. Fueled by global economic, environmental, and societal concerns, responsible consumption has become an integral part of the sustainability and consumption ethics literature. One movement toward sustainability consists of confining living space into a smaller ecological footprint.

Rotator cuff repair rehabilitation considerations and respective guidelines: a narrative review.

Current rotator cuff repair rehabilitation protocols focus on multiple areas, including protecting the healing tissue, optimizing range of motion and strength, and returning the individual to labor demanding and sport-specific tasks. Post-operative rehabilitation timelines with consideration of the tear size remain variable among practitioners. Prognostic factors, healing rates, range of motion timeline, exercise progressions, and guidance on return to sport and work activity are the many factors that can help guide rotator cuff repair rehabilitation and ultimately may reduce failure rates and improve outcomes.

Short-term dietary energy restriction reduces lean body mass but not performance in physically active men and women.

We studied the effect of moderate, short-term energy restriction on physical performance in physically fit men (n = 13) and women (n = 11) in a controlled clinical research setting with a metabolic kitchen, exercise testing laboratory and training facility. The experiment consisted of a 10 d baseline period followed by either 2 wk of dietary energy restriction (750 kcal/d; n = 16) or energy balance (control; n = 8). During this 24 day study, exercise energy expenditure averaged 465 +/- 5.

Substrate oxidation and availability during acute exercise in non-obese, obese, and post-obese sedentary females.

Objective: This study compared fat oxidation rates during an acute bout of cycle ergometry exercise (E) typical of progressive fat oxidation in healthy, but sedentary, women of different obesity histories.

Design: Five never-obese (NO) (mean age=25+/-3 (s.e.