http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Tsukuba University in Japan have come up with a motorized knee you can attach to your leg to make you run faster and use less muscle power. http://www.physorg.com/news180681294.html Technology Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:20:01 EST news180681294 (AP) -- In simpler times, maintaining good health was a matter of joining a gym or lacing up running shoes for a loop in the park. At most, you'd buy a watch with a digital display so you could time your laps. http://www.physorg.com/news179171548.html Electronics Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:00:01 EST news179171548 Young adults who are fit have a higher IQ and are more likely to go on to university, reveals a major new study carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news178978326.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:12:38 EST news178978326 French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft will have a virtual fitness coach whipping Wii users into shape starting Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news178085432.html Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:20:01 EST news178085432 School-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley. http://www.physorg.com/news176649584.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:20:12 EST news176649584 (PhysOrg.com) -- More than 16 percent of children and adolescents in the United States are overweight-a doubling of the estimated incidence of overweight among children and a tripling of the rate among adolescents in the past two decades. But scientists funded by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and based at the ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas, are fighting back. http://www.physorg.com/news176044383.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:40:07 EST news176044383 A healthy dose of exercise is good medicine, even for lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy, University of Alberta researchers have found. http://www.physorg.com/news175875523.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:01 EST news175875523 Men and women become gradually less fit with age, with declines accelerating after age 45, according to a report in the October 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, maintaining a healthy body mass index (BMI), not smoking and being physically active are associated with higher fitness levels throughout adult life. http://www.physorg.com/news175793829.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:20:04 EST news175793829 Attention weekend warriors: the simple act of exercise and not fitness itself can convince you that you look better, a new University of Florida study finds. http://www.physorg.com/news174223495.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:25:49 EST news174223495 (PhysOrg.com) -- Breast cancer survivors may find participation on a team that incorporates physical fitness, such as boating, walking or running, can help improve their quality of life, says a Purdue University sport and exercise psychologist. http://www.physorg.com/news173547052.html Medicine & Health Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:31:18 EST news173547052 When costs outweigh benefits, successful pregnancies are less likely to occur. http://www.physorg.com/news173377492.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:25:27 EST news173377492 Young drivers cause accidents mainly through carelessness, distraction and inexperience. Older drivers face a challenge: brains that work at slower processing speeds -- a critical disadvantage when navigating the unpredictable traffic world. http://www.physorg.com/news170082893.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:40:03 EST news170082893 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Newcastle University are launching a ground-breaking study to find out why some of us can run faster than others - despite doing the same amount of training. http://www.physorg.com/news169999725.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:20:01 EST news169999725 (AP) -- In hindsight, it seems so obvious. We look back at the creepy online ramblings of a tortured soul like George Sodini and realize we should have known all along of the horrors to come. http://www.physorg.com/news168765542.html Technology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:19:20 EST news168765542 Children's after-school activities often consist of sedentary behavior such as watching television, but after-school programs that offer physical activity and healthy snacks could be the best place for children's health. http://www.physorg.com/news168525357.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:50:02 EST news168525357 (PhysOrg.com) -- Trying to get fit but can`t work it into your daily schedule? Incorporating even relatively short bouts of exercise into a daily commute appears to deliver significant rewards, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.physorg.com/news166721239.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:27:52 EST news166721239 Heart transplant recipients' cardio-respiratory fitness is around 30 to 50 per cent lower than age-matched healthy sedentary individuals. As a result, exercise rehabilitation should be very important to these patients, and a University of Alberta study shows they can improve their overall physical fitness. http://www.physorg.com/news166098692.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:10:01 EST news166098692 Charles Darwin and his contemporaries postulated that food consumption in birds and mammals was limited by resource levels, that is, animals would eat as much as they could while food was plentiful and produce as many offspring as this would allow them to. However, recent research has shown that, even when food is abundant, energy intake reaches a limit, even in animals with high nutrient demands, such as lactating females. Scientists at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology in Vienna suggest that this is due to active control of maternal investment in offspring in order to maintain long-term reproductive fitness. http://www.physorg.com/news165643460.html Biology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:04:45 EST news165643460 (PhysOrg.com) -- Most healthy 25 year olds don't stay up at night worrying whether they are going to develop diabetes in middle age. The disease is not on their radar, and middle age is a lifetime away. http://www.physorg.com/news164997303.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:36:54 EST news164997303 Most healthy 25 year olds don't stay up at night worrying whether they are going to develop diabetes in middle age. The disease is not on their radar, and middle age is a lifetime away. http://www.physorg.com/news164542539.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:16:06 EST news164542539 (PhysOrg.com) -- Race season is here again, and that means more first-timers on the marathon/triathlon circuit. Officials from some of the biggest marathons and triathlons in the country are reporting record numbers of participants, many of whom are first-time competitors. http://www.physorg.com/news163267682.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:08:56 EST news163267682 French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft is putting players into the action when it comes to fitness training. http://www.physorg.com/news163148324.html Technology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:59:12 EST news163148324 The cardiovascular fitness level of cancer survivors is not affected by many standard cancer therapies, say researchers from Georgetown University Medical Cancer. That is the finding of a new observational study to be presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine in Seattle. http://www.physorg.com/news162730404.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 11:54:01 EST news162730404 A new study has sounded the alarm that the majority of Canadian adults are inactive over their lifespan and don't exercise enough during their leisure time. Published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, the study is unique in that it collected information over two decades from the 1981 Canada Fitness Survey, the 1988 Campbell's Survey of Well-Being and from the 2002/4 Physical Activity Longitudinal Study of the Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news161349169.html Medicine & Health Tue, 12 May 2009 12:13:21 EST news161349169 New research suggests for the first time that frequent bouts of sporadic activity could be just as beneficial to children's health as longer exercise sessions. A team from the University of Exeter measured the frequency, intensity and duration of bouts of physical activity in a group of children and analysed the results against a number of health indicators. http://www.physorg.com/news161257903.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 May 2009 10:52:16 EST news161257903 A new study appearing in Clinical Cardiology examines the average fitness level of the morbidly obese (body mass indexes between 40.0 and 49.9). The findings show that the tested population was sedentary for more than 99 percent of the day and, on average, walked less than 2,500 steps per day - far below healthy living guidelines of 10,000 steps per day. The results provide important links between obesity, poor fitness and cardiovascular disease. http://www.physorg.com/news157219241.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:01:30 EST news157219241 A new study by University of South Carolina researchers indicates aerobically fit women are three times less likely to die of breast cancer than those who seldom exercise. http://www.physorg.com/news157055347.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:29:20 EST news157055347 The problem: I lost my car keys. What kind of training will make my brain work better? http://www.physorg.com/news156163907.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:53:42 EST news156163907 Angie Rogers wants to stay fit enough to ride her motorcycle well into her 60s, so the 54-year-old Sachse, Texas, resident is working out on her computer almost every day. http://www.physorg.com/news154964395.html Technology Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:40:17 EST news154964395 When it comes to the hippocampus, a brain structure vital to certain types of memory, size matters. Numerous studies have shown that bigger is usually better. Now researchers have found that elderly adults who are more physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampi and better spatial memory than those who are less fit. http://www.physorg.com/news154704658.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:31:42 EST news154704658