The term “weekend warriors” has been used to refer to individuals who exercised irregularly, perhaps just on weekends. It has long been thought that this pattern of exercise was not enough to get the cardiovascular benefit of more frequent exercise, and that these people were just opening themselves up to greater in juries than those […]
MoreResearch in the past has shown that inflammatory markers that can be measured in simple blood tests are elevated in obesity. Also, it is known that a fairly brief period of overeating can raise these inflammatory markers. New research from the University of Michigan researchers shows that exercise protects against the changes in inflammatory markers […]
MoreAccording to a new study published in the American Journal of Cardiology, patients with heart disease who have a higher muscle mass and lower fat mass have a lower mortality risk. This research was done at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. They found that regardless of a person’s measurement of fat mass, a […]
MoreA new study from Duke University published in the journal Diabetologia, suggests that walking briskly may be more effective than jogging for improving glucose control for individuals who are pre-diabetic. One hundred and fifty individuals who were diagnosed with pre-diabetes were studied for 6 months. To assess the effect of the different types of exercise […]
MoreA new study published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois found that people who increased their water consumption by one to three cups per day decreased their calorie intake up to 205 calories per day.They also consumed up to 18 grams less sugar per day as well as […]
More A study from the United Kingdom’s University of Leicester has found that exercise which uses brief intervals of very vigorous activity with relative rest in between, is more effective for treating obesity and Type 2 Diabetes, compared to longer continuous exercise. Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes are closely linked. Between 80 and 90 per cent of […]
More Yale School of Medicine researchers have published a study in online journal Nature Medicine which shows that a compound produced by the body when dieting or fasting blocks a part of the immune system which is involved in the development of diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease and other auto-inflammatory conditions.
MoreDistinctly different than suffering from a “heart attack” which generally involves a blockage of coronary arteries, the phenomenon known as Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) involves the immediate stoppage of the heart due to malfunctioning of the electrical activity of the heart. This kills approximately 300,000 people per year.
MoreResearch just published by the University of Cambridge in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that a sedentary lifestyle is responsible for twice as many early deaths as obesity. Importantly, they also found that modest activity such as a 20 minute walk every day reduces that risk significantly.
MoreA study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, just published in the online edition of the scientific journal Obesity, reports that men who did twenty minutes of weight training per day had less age-related abdominal fat in comparison with men spent the same amount of time doing aerobic exercise.
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