Pre-pregnancy exercise may not prevent back pain (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Pre-pregnancy physical activity may not influence whether or not a woman will have persistent low back or pelvic pain after pregnancy, suggest researchers from Sweden.
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Month: December 2008
SC’s First Family Encourages Healthy Changes in Nutrition, Exercise and Tobacco Use (WSAV Savannah)
The Healthy SC Challenge is the Sanford family’s effort to get all South Carolinians to do just a little more to live a healthier lifestyle. The tips are designed to encourage individuals and communities to live healthier lifestyles in three categories – nutrition, exercise and help to quit smoking.
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Exercise Is Healthy Option for Kids With Developmental Disabilities (Newswise)
Group exercise programs, treadmill training and horseback riding can be healthy choices for children with developmental disabilities, a new review of studies concludes. With these kinds of activities, children with disorders such as autism, mental retardation and cerebral palsy can improve their coordination and aerobic fitness.
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Exercise keeps a heart healthier (Canon City Daily Record)
When the subject of a recent medical study showed that even a little bit of exercise can help prevent heart failure, doctors took notice. After all, the subjects of the long-term study were their colleagues in the medical profession.
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Exercise really can jog your memory claim scientists (Daily Telegraph)
Exercise can keep your brain fit and reduce memory loss by reducing the amount of sugar in the body as we age claim scientists.
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Study: Obesity surgery reverses diabetes in teens
DECISION MAKERS (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Joyce Steed Steed New position: general manager at ACAC Fitness & Wellness Center Birthplace: New York Education: bachelor’s degree in physical education, Cortland State University, Cortland, N.Y.; master’s degree in exercise physiology, University of Virginia Career goals: “My No. 1 goal will always be to spread the message that it is never too late to incorporate health and wellness into one’s …
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Benefits and Different Types of Cardiovascular Exercise (PIZZAHEROS)
There are many benefits of aerobic exercise: It strengthens your heart. Cardio can give a person a huge psychological/stress release. You can literally feel the stresses melt away. Because the endorphins levels go up there can be a feeling of power or being on top of the world.
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Local school jumps ahead with daily exercise (Bradenton Herald)
MANATEE — Students at Manatee School for the Arts were skeptical of their school’s new physical education policy.
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Bone-building exercise benefits may not last (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Athletic young men may lose the extra bone mineral density (BMD) they’ve accumulated if they reduce their physical activity levels as they grow older, according to new research from Sweden.
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Community Briefly: Interns wanted for SPAR (The Shreveport Times)
Shreveport Public Assembly and Recreation is looking for interns with majors in health/exercise science, business administration, physical education, special events, therapeutic recreation, sports administration, educational leadership or marketing.
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Physical therapy effective on neck pain (UPI)
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 26 (UPI) — The American Physical Therapy Association is urging U.S. patients with musculoskeletal pain to consider treatment by a physical therapist.
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