Urging Parents to Help Kids Be Fit from the Start
Healthy eating habits and regular physical activity are the aims of a new education campaign.
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Impact Sports Strengthen Bones in Senior Athletes
Running, basketball and other high-impact sports may lead to stronger bones as people age.
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Urban Planners Wield Influence on Physical Activity Levels
Urban planners who incorporate parks and sidewalks in the mix may have a hand in increasing the physical activity of their cities' residents.
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Aloha Program Inspires Winter Exercise
A local program that will award prizes to central Vermonters who are physically active during the long, cold weeks of winter.
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Hospitalized Seniors May Benefit From Care Programs With Exercise
Older hospital patients who participate in special care programs may go home sooner and incur fewer medical costs than patients receiving standard care.
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Thinking you got a work out may actually make you healthier
Reap the benefits of exercise through our daily routine as many of the beneficial results of exercise are due to the placebo effect.
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Muscle-Building Exercise Improves Response to Flu Shot
A brief session of muscle building exercise before receiving a flu shot can enhance a person's immune response.
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"Step Up, Florida!" Encourages Citizens to be More Active
Fourth annual "Step Up, Florida!" statewide initiative promoting physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
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Exercise has no effect on risk of knee osteoarthritis
Regular exercise is recommended for middle-aged and older people, but the effect of exercise on the development of osteoarthritis (OA) in older people is unclear.
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Does endurance exercise promote life-threatening changes in athletes' hearts?
New study finds exercise endurance athletes with ventricular arrhythmias have dysfunctional right ventricles.
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Training Breathing Muscles Improves Swimming Muscles' Performance
Swimmers and scuba divers can improve their swimming endurance and breathing capacity through targeted training of the respiratory muscles.
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Inhalation of golf course pesticides in northeast poses 'minimal' health risk
When golfers in the northeastern United States dream of returning to those greens and fairways next spring, they can have some reassurance that inhaling pesticides applied to the turf does not pose a serious human health threat.
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Kids' Neighborhoods Influence Activity
Kids who live in certain types of neighborhoods are likely to walk more often, a new study reveals, with boys more likely to walk if they have accessible destinations and girls more likely to walk if they believe it's easy to do so.
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CDC Uses Advertising Campaign to Get Kids Moving
Advertising can succeed in getting kids to be more physically active, exercise and do fitness.
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The shape of health to come: fitness for cancer survivors
Researchers have developed a customized fitness program to help survivors of endometrial cancer, or cancer of the uterus, shed pounds and keep cancer at bay.
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Surfing safer than soccer
First study to determine injury rate of contest surfers finds ligament injuries.
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Exercise Enhances Seniors' Physical, Mental Functioning
Three hours of brisk walking per day can trigger biochemical changes that increase production of new brain neurons.
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Getting people to move - challenges in promoting physical activity
Public health programs that encourage physical activity, fitness and exercise have not been successful.
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Mandatory fitness testing to combat childhood obesity
In order to combat childhood obesity many Australians favor mandatory fitness testing for school children.
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Gym membership not just a way to keep in trim
The huge growth in the popularity of fitness health clubs and gym membership is down to the human need for kinship and not just a way to keep fit.
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Balance Training Better Than Tai Chi At Improving Elderly Mobility
Study at the University of Michigan Health System and the VA finds benefits with tai chi and with another type of balance training program, with greater benefits from the balance training.
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Varying Weight Training Intensity Increases Growth Hormone In Women
Women who undertake a long term weight training program produce more biologically active growth hormone, allows to understand why weight training improves muscle tone and optimizes metabolic function.
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Improperly-Sized Tennis Racket Grip Doesn't Cause Tennis Elbow
Researchers apparently have "gotten a grip" on the relationship between the development of tennis elbow (tendonitis) and the size of the grip on the racket a player uses.
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Physical Fitness Test Results of 2006 in California
Fitness test report of California shows that less children meet the minimum fitness requirements.
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Phys Ed Class More Effective When There's More Talking
A new approach to traditional high school gym class dramatically increases how often teens exercise outside of school.
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Key Indicators for Activity-Friendly Communities
Factors that contribute to regular physical activity and exercising.
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Exercise A New Prescription For Health
Exercise plays an important role in reducing the health effects of aging.
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Moderate Exercise May Protect Against Colds
Sedentary women who engaged in moderate exercise had fewer colds over a one year period.
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Toward Better Identification Of Substances Used For Doping In Sports
Researchers are reporting development of a method for quickly identifying newly emerging designer steroids before they go into wide use in sports.
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Histamine Tied To Changes In Blood Pressure During Exercise-Recovery Period
The biggest cause of post exercise fainting may be explained by this finding on Histamine.
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Home Is Where the Gym Is
Regular exercise and workout not only can improve your overall quality of life, it also can help counter many negative effects of aging and an inactive lifestyle.
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Fitness And Childhood IQ Indicators Of Cognitive Ability In Old Age
How well your mind works in old age depends on physical fitness and your IQ score as a child.
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Prescribe Exercise For Older Adults For Better Health
There are four ways to improve physical fitness: aerobic exercise, resistance training, flexibility, and lifestyle modification.
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One-Third of US Youth Not Physically Fit
Sedentary lifestyle does not promote fitness and health and many of the youth do not meet standards for physical fitness.
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Steroid Injections Do Not Provide Long-Term Relief From Tennis Elbow
Randomised comparison of three interventions for Tennis Elbow: mobilisation with movement and exercise, corticosteroid or wait and see.
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Exercise Prior To Hip and Knee Replacement Reduces Need For Inpatient Rehabilitation
Exercise is often used in treating osteoarthritis and is an important part in rehabilitation following joint replacement.
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Walking Not Enough for Significant Exercise Benefits
Walking is a popular form of exercise, but may not be enough to experience significant health benefits.
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Short Intense Exercise
Interval based exercise is indeed a very time efficient training strategy.
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No Time To Exercise Is No Excuse
Short bursts of very intense exercise can produce the same results as traditional endurance training.
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Wearing A Helmet Puts Cyclists At Risk
Bicyclists who wear protective helmets are more likely to be struck by passing vehicles.
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