Among patients who return to work after a heart attack, those who work more than 55 hours per week, compared to those working an average full-time job of 35-40 hours a week, increase their odds of having a second heart attack ...
Mar 29, 2021
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Residential greenness encourages middle-aged people to do physical activity, according to a joint study by the University of Oulu and Oulu Deaconess Institute Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Finland. Living in ...
Dec 21, 2020
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The muscles and joints are not the only parts of the body to be worn down by physical work. The brain and heart suffer too. A new study from the University of Copenhagen shows that people doing hard physical work have a 55% ...
Oct 26, 2020
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Physical activity destinations more than 500 meters from home may encourage older people to engage in physical activity. Outdoor mobility facilitating parks, walking trails, and public services at greater distances increased ...
Aug 13, 2020
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Gaining a better understanding of our sitting behavior requires detailed psychological research into our motivations for sitting down and standing up. For example, would you stay seated for longer if you were tired (due to ...
Jun 16, 2020
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Older people in England's most deprived areas are more likely to be lonely than their less deprived peers, a new study has shown.
May 27, 2020
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Children are set to move more, improve their skills, and come up with their own creative tennis games with the launch of 'HomeCourtTennis', a new initiative to assist teachers and coaches with keeping kids active while at ...
Apr 29, 2020
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An enriched environment—with increased opportunities for physical activity, socialization and exploring novel stimuli—helped lessen functional, anatomical and cellular deficits in an experimental model of brain damage ...
Feb 19, 2020
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Gravity is the unseen force that dominates our entire lives. It's what makes walking uphill so difficult and what makes parts of our body eventually point downhill. It is unyielding, everywhere, and a force that we battle ...
Jan 24, 2020
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Over half of the world's population—4.2 billion people – live in cities. This number is expected to rise, with 68% of the global population estimated to live in urban areas by 2050.
Dec 18, 2019
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