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To work your brain, work your body

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The problem: I lost my car keys. What kind of training will make my brain work better?


Study: Exercise improves body image for fit and unfit alike

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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.


Unfit Young Adults on Road to Diabetes in Middle Age

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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.


22-year study finds adults aren't active enough

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Aerobically fit women have lower chance of breast cancer, study says

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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.


MyActivity Pyramid

MU fitness expert creates MyActivity Pyramid to help adults exercise (Video)

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The MyActivity Pyramid, a new fitness guide developed by a University of Missouri Extension fitness specialist, provides physical activity recommendations for adults in a fun and easy-to-understand format. ...


Vigorous exercise may help prevent vision loss

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

There's another reason to dust off those running shoes. Vigorous exercise may help prevent vision loss, according to a pair of studies from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The studies ...


Exercise may prevent brain shrinkage in early Alzheimer's disease

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Mild Alzheimer's disease patients with higher physical fitness had larger brains compared to mild Alzheimer's patients with lower physical fitness, according to a study published in the July 15, 2008, issue of Neurology, the me ...


Gift Guide: Tech gadgets can boost your workouts (AP)

Gift Guide: Tech gadgets can boost your workouts

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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.


Young adults who exercise get higher IQ

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

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.


Physical education key to improving health in low-income adolescents

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Fitness levels decline with age, especially after 45

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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, mainta ...


Are you the next Usain Bolt? The answer could be in your saliva

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(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.


People who bike or walk to work are more fit, less fat than drivers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(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 ...


Key to evolutionary fitness: Cut the calories

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...