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In Denmark, as in other countries, education is seen as the most important way to make the country competitive in a global world and to solve problems relating to the welfare state. Many efforts are made to retain students in the educational system, but at the same time the system remains selective. In this paper, we present analyses that shed light on how a double agenda of selection and retention is played out within a school of studies in basic health and care and on how different groups of students respond to that. We find that the double agenda is handled in a manner where one agenda is reserved for one group of students and another for a different group of student. Our theoretical point of departure is the British tradition of Cultural Studies and particularly Paul Willis' study on working class boys’ resistance towards school.

Recent studies have shown that about 20% of obese subjects are metabolically healthy with no increased risk for development of cardio-vascular disease or type 2 diabetes. This group is characterized by normal metabolic parameters (do not have metabolic syndrome) and by minimal ectopic fat accumulation in the visceral depot, in the liver etc. It is argued that treatment intensity to obtain a weight loss should take the benign form of obesity into account since more active treatments such as pharmacotherapy and surgery may potentially be harmful rather than having a beneficial effect in this subgroup of obese subjects.

We compared the effects on glycaemic control of two different exercise protocols in elderly men with type 2-diabetes; one 30-minute session per day (1 x 30) and three 10-minute sessions per day (3 x 10). Cardiopulmonary fitness increased in both groups. Improvement in glycaemic control was only found in the 3 x 10 group. A likely explanation is that the total energy expenditure during training performed as multiple sessions is higher than the expenditure achieved during a single session per day.