Lifestyle Can Thwart Cancer

Lifestyle Can Thwart Cancer

MICHAEL DREGNI Thirty-year mega study finds up to 48 percent of carcinoma could be prevented with healthy lifestyles. Healthy behaviors could prevent many cancer cases and deaths in the United States, according to a recent Harvard study published online by JAMA Oncology. Researchers examined the lifestyles and medical records of more than 135,000 white male and…

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Knowing Your Fitness Number Predicts Your Risk For Future Health

Knowing Your Fitness Number Predicts Your Risk For Future Health

Adapted Media Release It is well known that individuals who are unfit are at substantially greater risk for lifestyle-related diseases and premature death. Despite its high value in the assessment of risk, fitness is not routinely measured in clinical practice. The likely reason for this is the costly and time-consuming testing procedure that requires trained…

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7 Beginner Kettlebell Exercises To Work Your Entire Body

7 Beginner Kettlebell Exercises To Work Your Entire Body

Beginner kettlebell exercises are an excellent way to add variety to your workout routine, whether you’re new to strength training or you’re just faithful to your trusty 15-pound dumbbells. Using different equipment offers up new ways to work your muscles, which is key to seeing results, and there are endless ways to burn out your entire body…

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Aerobic Exercise Improves Cognition In Old Age

Aerobic Exercise Improves Cognition In Old Age

Written by Ana Sandoiu A significant number of people aged 65 and over are affected by mild cognitive impairment. New research suggests aerobic exercise can have remarkably beneficial effects on these patients. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) refers to the slightly decreased cognitive abilities in individuals of 65 years of age and over. Such people may…

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How To Keep Your New Year’s Fitness Resolution From Failing

How To Keep Your New Year's Fitness Resolution From Failing

By Dr. Jordan D. Metzl, CNN (CNN)If you’re like most Americans, you’ve made getting fitter and losing weight your New Year’s resolution. Unfortunately, your resolution will most likely fail. According to a study from the Statistic Brain Research Institute, roughly 42% of Americans made New Year’s resolutions. The most common resolution — made by almost a…

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7 Ways To Set A Fitness Resolution You’ll Actually Keep

How To Keep Your New Year's Fitness Resolution From Failing

Fitness. By Laura Newc. This New Year, millions of Americans will don their sneakers, shimmy into their gym shorts, and resolve to transform their fitness in the months ahead. These visions of physical grandeur vary widely. One person might aim to walk for an hour three times each week; another might plan to run five marathons in 2017. No matter your goal, one…

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Fitting in Fitness for Telecommuters

Fitting in Fitness for Telecommuters

by Grace T. DeSimone, B.A. It is 3 P.M. and you are in your pajamas pecking away at your keyboard when you realize you have not brushed your teeth or even looked in a mirror. Yup, you are a tele­commuter. Telecommuting (AKA working from home) is be­coming commonplace as more companies embrace the trend. Whether…

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When Sitting is Harmful to Your Health

When Sitting is Harmful to Your Health

Elliot O’Connor. This entry was posted in Staying Healthy and tagged sitting, sitting disease, UW Sports Medicine. Bookmark the permalink. Dr. Brian Liem and Elliot O’Connor, DPT, from UW Sports Medicine hosted a Whole U Seminar on how to beat the sitting disease (view a video of the seminar here). It filled up quickly and the feedback from attendees was so positive that we…

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Why Sports Nutrition Needs to Look Beyond Proteins

Why Sports Nutrition Needs to Look Beyond Proteins

If you go to the gym a couple of times a week and eat healthy, you can’t help but hear the word ”protein” whenever someone talks about their diet. Of course, we all know that protein is required to build and repair muscle, but many have gone a bit overboard with the amount of protein…

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U.S. Adults Get Failing Grades in Healthy Lifestyle Behavior

U.S. Adults Get Failing Grades in Healthy Lifestyle Behavior

by Shari Barbanel in Top Headlines Only 2.7 percent of the U.S. adult population achieves all four of some basic behavioral characteristics that researchers say would constitute a “healthy lifestyle” and help protect against cardiovascular disease, a recent study concluded. In this study, researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Mississippi examined how many…

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