Health and Fitness From Around the World
A New Study Tests Cholesterol-Lowering Foods
Can so call cholesterol-lowering foods actually lower your cholesterol. New study says it can but its not any easy route. The results come from a six-month trial carried out by researchers from the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre in Toronto, Canada. 345 people were chosen who had high...
A Fat Cell Is For Life
A joint study has found through applied carbon dating to DNA that the number of fat cells stay constant in adulthood no matter how thin or fat the individual is or how much weight they put on or loose. The study was carried out between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist...
Can Exercise Make You Smarter
Research is proving that exercise can improve brain function. Could this offer hope for Alzheimer’s? Latest research has shown that putting subjects through a three-month aerobic programme, new nerve cells grew in the human brain, something that was thought to be impossible. The participants of a study carried out at...
Arterial Fibrillation and Exercise
Before going into the details of the effect exercise has on the condition Arterial Fibrillation it is important to have a basic understanding of what AF is. What is Arterial Fibrillation? Arterial Fibrillation is an irregular heart beat. It can be caused by a faulty heart valve, Thyroid disease, high...
Exercise reduces the risk of stroke.
Researches at the National Public Health Institute in Finland conducted a study to find out if exercise cut the risk of stroke and it found that even moderate exercise produced positive results. They monitored 47,721 Finns aged between 25-64. They found that those who added physical activity as part of...
Exercise links to moods
Anyone who exercises regularly recognises the buzz you get after your workout. You feel better and more alive. Now a new study proves that exercise is directly linked to our moods and emotions. Featuring in the Archives of Internal Medicine the article describes the results of 3000 patients that were...
Even Light Exercise Helps Smokers Quit
Even short bouts of light exercise such as strolling can help smokers quit by reducing cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms, say scientists at the University of Exeter in the UK. The study was published in the April edition of the journal Addiction. The scientists suggest that a short session of...
Could there be a fitness pill in the future?
In 2008 scientists at the Salk Institute in California took mice that could only be described as coach potatoes and turned them into marathon mice after administering two specific drugs. The drug switched on a gene that triggered a process that increased their endurance without exercise resulting in them being...
Fitness Test Before an Operation Can Aid Recovery
It is common knowledge that the fitter you are before going into hospital for an operation, the quicker you recover. But the doctors and hospital staff usually have no idea how fit you really are and its not until complications arise during or after the operation that the bodies weakness’...
Inventor of the Nordic Track Ski Machine Dies
How many of you can remember the Nordic Track ski machine that was so popular in the 1980s-90s. Well the sad news is that its inventor Ed Pauls died at his home in Motrose, Colo on October the 9th 2011 aged 80. His daughter, Terri Pauls, said he had complications...
Listen Up Men -Toxic Emotions Can Pollute Your World
Explosive emotions can be disastrous to men’s personal and professional relationships and experts agree that the most troublesome and potentially dangerous emotions for men are anger, hostility and jealousy. In theory, for men, anger seems a good idea. As a kid your dad would probably say, “Get mad with it”...
Smoking or obesity is one worse than the other?
Is a country full of smokers putting a greater strain on its health service than one full of expanding waistlines? This is a question that researches have been studying recently. They took 1100 women aged between 18-76 and studied the length of their telomeres. A telomere is found at the...
Six Medical Myths
If someone tells you something enough times you begin to believe that it’s true. This can be the case with many so-called medical factoids, which according to the British Medical Journal turn out to be false. The British Medical Journal has pointed out that if you repeat something often enough...
Understanding Sciatica
Anyone who has suffered from sciatica knows just how painful and debilitating it can be. Mild sciatica can have a major impact on your fitness regime, serious sciatica will stop you in your tracks. Sciatica is caused when the sciatic nerve, which is made up of five branches of nerves...
The UK Map To Good Health
Here are the results of a recent PruHealth survey which uncovered surprising regional variations in exercise patterns and awareness of health issues. London London is Britain’s most unfit city, a place of high consumption of alcohol and low levels of exercise. Fitness facilities are low in number so its not...
What makes a weight loss winner
It’s really tough to loose weight-and keep it off. Statistics suggest that 9 out of 10 people who go on a diet put the weight back on again, but that means 10% are successful. How do they do it? Research suggests that there are nine key habits that successful weight...
Weightlifter Runs Amok and is Killed by Taser
A bizarre event took place at a Golds Gym establishment in the USA a few weeks ago when a weightlifter named Chad Brothers, 32, suddenly went into an uncontrolled frenzy. It began at about 5.45am in the morning. It appears he had been acting strange for about half an hour,...
Walk Your Way To A Longer Life
A study of 13,535 women in their 50’s who regularly walked as part of an exercise routine where found to be healthier in the 70’s than those that were more sedentary Brigham and Women’s Hospital who conducted the study didn’t just look at those with heart disease or those that...
Wii Fit May Not Help Families Get Fit
The Nintendo Wii Fit is the latest craze designed to get families back in shape but a study from the University of Mississippi indicates the console has little effect on family fitness. Professor Scott Owens started the study in the Autumn 2008. He wanted to see if video games had...
Why Do We Grow Old?
From the moment you are conceived you are growing old and every day you are alive you grow that little bit older. It is the order of things. Everything is born and everything dies but is it possible to slow the process down. That is a mystery that scientists all...
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