News tagged with exercise activity


Exercise can help when chronic illness gets you down, study finds

Suffering from a chronic illness can drain a person's quality of life, but add in depression, and the results are debilitating. A new study from University of Georgia researchers shows that exercise training can reduce depression ...

Health created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Health experts recommend you set your toddlers free

In response to an urgent call from public health, health care, child care, and fitness practitioners, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP), with assistance from multiple partners, has developed two important ...

Health created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Small change makes big difference in compliance rates for follow-up stress test after chest pain

Stress tests are an important tool to help diagnose narrowed arteries in people who come to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain, but who are not confirmed as having a heart attack. Scheduling a follow-up exercise stress ...

Cardiology created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Too much exercise delays pregnancy in normal-weight women: study

(HealthDay) -- Exercise is a plus for women trying to become pregnant, but overdoing workouts might make it harder to conceive -- unless you're overweight, researchers report.

Health created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cool hands may be the key to increasing exercise capacity

Cooling the palms of the hands while working out could help you stick with a physical activity program, according to a small study presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical ...

Health created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Playing team sports encourages young girls to stay physically active

Good news for soccer moms: Girls who join organized team sports at age 11 are more likely to stay physically active as they get older, according to a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Health created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fitness programs for minority adults lack cultural relevance, study finds

Many leading causes of death are linked to unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, including inadequate physical activity. Adults in minority populations have lower levels of physical activity and higher rates of preventable deaths, ...

Health created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How training gets your fat fit

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the Universities of Bath, Oxford and Toulouse have been looking at how adipose tissue (fat) plays a dynamic and active role during exercise and physical activity.

Medical research created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Get them while they are young, call for closer examination of preschooler physical activity levels

Australian researchers need to investigate the specific physical activity levels required by preschoolers to encourage better exercise habits later in life, academics argue.

Health created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Owning a dog encourages exercise in pregnant women

The study of more than 11,000 pregnant women, in partnership with Mars Petcare, showed that those who owned dogs were approximately 50% more likely to achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day through high levels ...

Health created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exercise in early 20s may lower risk of osteoporosis

Physical exercise in the early twenties improves bone development and may reduce the risk of fractures later in life, reveals a study of more than 800 Swedish men carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exercise can reverse negative effects of maternal obesity

(Medical Xpress) -- Exercise is the key to overcoming the adverse metabolic effects passed on to offspring by their overweight mothers, with research showing for the first time these effects can be almost completely reversed ...

Health created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physical activity yields feelings of excitement, enthusiasm

(Medical Xpress) -- People who are more physically active report greater levels of excitement and enthusiasm than people who are less physically active, according to Penn State researchers. People also are more likely to ...

Health created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vigorous exercise linked to gene activity in prostate

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have identified nearly 200 genes in the healthy prostate tissue of men with low-grade prostate cancer that may help explain how physical activity improves survival ...

Cancer created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Exercise can improve the health and wellbeing of cancer patients

Exercise can improve the health of cancer patients who have completed their main cancer-related treatment finds a study published in the British Medical Journal.

Cancer created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast