News tagged with fitness
People who bike or walk to work are more fit, less fat than drivers
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Heart transplant recipients can improve fitness and perform high intensity workouts
Jul 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Key to evolutionary fitness: Cut the calories
Jul 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Unfit Young Adults on Road to Diabetes in Middle Age
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(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.
Aerobically unfit young adults on road to diabetes in middle age
Jun 18, 2009 |
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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.
Pounding the pavement: Traditional training methods are still safer, more effective
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Ubisoft puts players in new fitness videogame
Jun 02, 2009 |
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French videogame powerhouse Ubisoft is putting players into the action when it comes to fitness training.
Cardiovascular fitness not affected by cancer treatment
May 28, 2009 |
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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 ...
22-year study finds adults aren't active enough
May 12, 2009 |
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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 an ...
Sporadic play activity as beneficial to child health as continuous bouts of exercise, study suggests
May 11, 2009 |
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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, ...
Study: Morbidly obese sedentary for more than 99 percent of day
Mar 25, 2009 |
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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 per ...
Aerobically fit women have lower chance of breast cancer, study says
Mar 23, 2009 |
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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.
To work your brain, work your body
Mar 13, 2009 |
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The problem: I lost my car keys. What kind of training will make my brain work better?
Seniors use brain training software to sharpen their minds
Feb 27, 2009 |
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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.
Physical fitness improves spatial memory, increases size of brain structure
Feb 24, 2009 |
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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 ...
