Diabetes
Get fit to cut your diabetes risk during pregnancy
(HealthDay)—If she's fit, a woman is less likely to develop diabetes during pregnancy, a new study contends.
Apr 27, 2018
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Researchers discover how young children seem to run around all day without getting tired
Children not only have fatigue-resistant muscles, but recover very quickly from high-intensity exercise—even faster than well-trained adult endurance athletes. This is the finding of new research published in open-access ...
Apr 24, 2018
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Vigorous physical activity may be linked to heightened risk of motor neurone disease
Vigorous physical activity, either in leisure time or in work, may be linked to a heightened risk of developing motor neurone disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS for short, suggests research published ...
Apr 23, 2018
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Study: Get moving to get happier
Physical activity has long been known to reduce depression and anxiety, and is commonly prescribed to prevent or cure negative mental health conditions.
Apr 4, 2018
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AHA: smart ways to get a workout at work
It's no secret that Americans need to move more. Yet our jobs often require us to sit for eight to 10 hours a day—at home, the office or behind the wheel—often getting up only for lunch and trips to the bathroom.
Apr 3, 2018
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Diabetes
Better fitness in pre-pregnant women linked with less risk of gestational diabetes
Expectant mothers who were more fit before pregnancy are at lower risk of developing gestational diabetes, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.
Apr 2, 2018
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The top calorie-burning exercises
(HealthDay)—When you're trying to lose weight, cutting calories counts. But so does burning them off with exercise.
Mar 22, 2018
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Whether sustained or sporadic, exercise offers same reductions in death risk
For decades, Americans have been inundated with a confusing barrage of messages about how best to counteract the health risks of sedentary lifestyles: walk 10,000 steps a day; do a seven-minute workout from a phone app; flip ...
Mar 22, 2018
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Just a few minutes of light intensity exercise linked to lower death risk in older men
Clocking up just a few minutes at a time of any level of physical activity, including of light intensity, is linked to a lower risk of death in older men, suggests research published online in the British Journal of Sports ...
Feb 19, 2018
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Regular physical activity is associated with better lung function among smokers
Vigorous physical activity is associated with better lung function among current smokers. This is the main conclusion of a new study published in Thorax and led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute of Global Health ...
Feb 6, 2018
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