Month: March 2009

LONDON (Reuters) – Exercise helps people recover after a heart attack but the benefits vanish when the workouts stop, Swiss researchers said on Monday.
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More than 30 national medical, scientific, and health and fitness organizations today urged President Obama to give physical activity a heightened focus on the nation’s health care agenda. The call to action cited the powerful effects that physical activity has on reducing long-term health care costs.
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Newly released research in the March, 2009 issue of Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport demonstrates that older adults with a high degree of health worry engaged in less physical activity, and older adults who participated in less physical activity were more likely to report walking difficulty at a 6-year follow-up.
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The Participation programme at KMS Skolasport for participants aged between 8 to 10 years gives children the opportunity to get physical exercise and learn new sporting skills. Organised by the Kunsill Malti ghall-iSport and sponsored by Kellogg’s, the programme encourages children to take part and enjoy sports outside their school curriculum. Following the course in the […]
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Men in their 50s who increase their exercise regime live more than two years longer than couch potatoes of the same age, a new study shows. Males in their middle years who do a lot of physical activity, equivalent to three hours a week of sport or heavy gardening, can outlive their sedentary peers by 2.3 years and moderate exercisers by just over a year, researchers found. The benefit to …
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Identifying and treating depression, including increasing physical activity, may improve quality of life and reduce cardiovascular disease and death in African Americans, according to reports presented at the American Heart Association’s 2009 Conference on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism.
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Taking up regular physical exercise after the age of 50 is as beneficial for men as quitting smoking, a Swedish study published Friday on the website of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) showed.
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Beginning exercise in middle age is not too late to help prolong your life, a study shows.
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People who put off regular exercise until they hit the age of 50 can still benefit from physical activity but it appears to take 10 years for the effects to kick in, Swedish researchers said Friday.
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