Health

Seniors in Sweden 'stayin' alive' with exercise

The disco beat of 'Stayin' Alive' pulses through the room as Lennart Zetterqvist heaves dumbbells out to his side, zipping through the paces of a workout class with a twist: it's for seniors aged 90 and up.

Health

Fast food most popular with middle incomes

(Medical Xpress) -- A new national study of eating out and income shows that fast-food dining becomes more common as earnings increase from low to middle incomes, weakening the popular notion that fast food should be blamed ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Breathless - understanding asthma

More than 5 million people in the UK suffer from asthma, and we still don’t know what causes it. Researchers have drawn up a long list of possible risk factors but findings are frequently contradictory. There is ...

Health

Fitness tests get tweaked

We're not saying they're not out there, somewhere, blithely crushing pre-pubescent souls with their whistles and clipboards and flexed-arm-hang timers.

Health

Six reasons to take up yoga during pregnancy

While you may need to modify your exercise routine slightly during pregnancy, physical activity is safe, and in fact recommended, when you're expecting a baby.

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