It may seem like an odd connection, but the US Surgeon General thinks that exercise-friendly hairstyles can be a weapon in the war on obesity. If you already have a low-maintenance hairstyle, you may be like the 90% of the walkers who answered the poll on my AboutWalking Facebook page. Either they said they never used their hairstyle as an excuse to not workout, or they asked, “what’s a hairstyle?”
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Good news if you are trying to walk off weight. Researchers at Duke University found that aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking, was better at burning off belly fat and …
Walking gives the biggest workout to your most distant body part - the foot. My feet have no problem complaining loudly when I’ve abused them by wearing old shoes that have lost their cushioning, or forced them into “cute sandals” that didn’t provide support and rubbed them the wrong way.
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Has charity walk fundraising changed with the rise of Facebook and Twitter? I committed to raising $2500 for …
Exercise is often recommended for people with clinical depression. A recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry showed that exercise helped people with depression who didn’t have their symptoms resolved with a single anti-depressive drug. Often they would be prescribed a second drug, but the researchers found that moderate to intense exercise produced the same level of improvement. Thirty percent of the participants had full remission of symptoms and another 20% had significant improvement.
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More and more research points to physical activity as helping maintain brain health and reducing cognitive decline as we age. But many studies are based on asking the test subjects …
Few things shake up your life as much as a cancer diagnosis. Yet research says the best way forward is to keep exercising. Getting the recommended amount of exercise for your age group has a very significant impact on reducing risk of recurrence of the cancer and improving odds of long term survivorship. Exercise during treatment can also maintain function and keep you on the right path as a survivor. Even for those with advancing cancer, exercise can help maintain independence and quality of life. These are some of the findings in a review of medical studies published by MacMillan Cancer Support this month.
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