January 1, 2011
Don’t Take a Holiday From Exercise
If you don’t have time to get to the gym during the holidays, you can incorporate exercise into your daily activities, an expert says.
“It’s important to maintain your fitness as much as possible during the holidays, but don’t worry if you’re too busy to go to the gym.
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October 24, 2010
Vigorous Exercise Reduces Breast Cancer Risk In African-American Women
Vigorous exercise of more than two hours per week reduces the risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal African-American women by 64 percent, compared to women of the same race who do not exercise, according to researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Results were presented at the Third AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held Sept…
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September 27, 2010
Pregnant Women Don’t Get Enough Exercise
Three out of four pregnant women in the U.S. do not get enough exercise, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill found that, at most, 23% of pregnant women engaged in as much physical activity as is recommended by government and private health groups.
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August 24, 2010
Develop a strong core with this simple yet challenging move. If you’re new to exercise, do this move without dumbbells; as you become more comfortable with the move, hold a pair of dumbbells for added resistance.
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August 5, 2010
A combination of moderate physical exercise and computer use late in life may help protect against the memory loss of mild cognitive impairment, a new study suggests.
The study shows that both physical exercise and mental exercises such as reading books, playing games, and computer use are associated with a lower risk of mild cognitive impairment; a combination of these activities appears to pack a one-two punch that is even more beneficial.
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July 7, 2010
Depression is draining. It can make any type of exertion — going to the grocery store, cleaning up the yard, or exercising — seem daunting.
“Energy loss is one of the key characteristics of depression. Some people feel that it’s the key characteristic of depression,” says Robert E. Thayer, PhD, a psychology professor at California State University, Long Beach, an expert in managing mood, and the author of Calm Energy: How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise.
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June 16, 2010
A new study provides tantalizing clues about how exercise helps ward off heart disease and other ills: Fit people have more fat-burning molecules in their blood than less fit people after exercise.
And the very fittest are even more efficient, on a biochemical level, at generating fat-burning molecules that break down and burn up fats and sugars, the study reports.
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May 19, 2010
Just five minutes of exercise in a green nature setting, like these beautiful hills in Vermont, can boost mood and self-esteem.
From an analysis of 1,252 people (of different ages, genders and mental health status) drawn from ten existing studies in the United Kingdom, the authors were able to show.……
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May 10, 2010
Here’s a simple yet challenging way to firm and tighten your buttocks and thighs. If you start to incorporate this move into your exercise routine now, you can help get your lower body in shape for the summer.
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May 6, 2010
A U.S. researcher says regular aerobic exercise may speed learning and help blood flow to the brain.
Dr. Judy Cameron of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found monkeys trained to use a treadmill — an hour a day five days a week for five months — performed a mental task twice as quickly as the control group that spent the hour sitting on an immobile treadmill.
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