Heart patients let arthritis interfere with exercise (14 WFIE Evansville)
Adults with heart disease may let their arthritis get in the way of beneficial exercise, even though physical activity is likely to help.
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Month: February 2009
Want To Lose Weight? Make More Time For Exercise (MyNC.com)
If you want to lose weight, you might need to invest more time in exercise. The American College of Sports Medicine says 250 minutes a week, or 50 minutes at least five days a week, of physical activity is essential for significant weight loss. WebMD reports.
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Weight Loss May Take 250 Minutes of Exercise (WebMD)
Adults need at least 250 minutes per week of moderate-intensity physical activity to lose significant weight, according to the latest recommendations from the American College of Sports Medicine.
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Does exercise help prediabetes or control blood sugar? (CNN)
Does exercise help prediabetes or control blood sugar? How much exercise (time) and what kind of exercise should be done for this purpose.
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Calcium tied to lower cancer risk in older people
(4 stars)Exercise is better in the morning if you have a stressful job study suggests (Daily Telegraph)
Taking exercise before work is more effective if you have a stressful job as mental fatigue can affect physical performance say scientists.
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Can exercise strengthen relationships? (WTOL 11 Toledo)
Research shows that spouses can make great exercise partners, even if one is less enthusiastic about physical activity than the other. The benefits, for both, are significant, including improved health, better sleep and more energy.
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Proton therapy fights cancer
Physical Endurance Can Be Affected By Mental Fatigue (KOLR – KSFX Ozarks)
(Bethesda, MD) — If just thinking about trying to exercise seems make your body go limp, the problem really could just be all in your head. A study was carried out on the relationship between mental and physical fatigue and reaching the level of physical exhaustion.
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Mental fatigue affects physical endurance (UPI)
BANGOR , Wales, Feb. 24 (UPI) — Performing a mentally fatiguing task prior to an exercise test can result in people feeling more exhausted, Welsh researchers said.
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Mental Fatigue Can Affect Physical Endurance (Newswise)
When participants performed a mentally fatiguing task prior to a difficult exercise test, they reached exhaustion more quickly than when they did the same exercise when mentally rested. Mental fatigue did not cause the heart or muscles to perform any differently; instead, our “perceived effort” determines when we reach exhaustion.
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Mental fatigue can affect physical endurance (EurekAlert!)
( American Physiological Society ) When participants performed a mentally fatiguing task prior to a difficult exercise test, they reached exhaustion more quickly than when they did the same exercise when mentally rested. Mental fatigue did not cause the heart or muscles to perform any differently; instead, our “perceived effort” determines when we reach exhaustion. The next step is to look at …
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