Year: 2009

Personal Trainer Penny Fahey talked about exercise, health and overall fitness on this morning’s Chit Chat. Look for that interview to be posted in our Audio Clips.
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New data from a long-term survey suggests that U.S. teens are no less active today than they were in 1991. Yet they’ve gotten increasingly heavier over the same period
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The two dozen kids at Creekside Elementary School in Elgin, Ill., write and read — in fact, do all of their classwork — perched on exercise balls.
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The American Council on Exercise , America’s leading authority on fitness and one of the largest fitness certification, education and training organizations in the world, today released key findings from two separate studies conducted with University of Wisconsin La Crosse Exercise and Health Program.
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An organic approach to exercise Linda J. Buch Denver Pos Picture the playgrounds and PE classes from your childhood. Remember jumping jacks, push-ups, jump rope, rope climb, dodge ball and just running and hopping from the jungle gym to the slide? All of these very simple exercises focused on the whole body, using its own weight for resistance, rather than isolating and working its parts. This …
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New data from a long-term survey suggests that U.S. teens are no less active today than they were in 1991. Yet they’ve gotten increasingly heavier over the same period
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The British epidemiologist Jeremy N. Morris died recently. In the 1940s and 1950s, Morris did some of the first empirical research that showed how important it is, health-wise, to have a job that involves some physical activity. A 1949 study compared the health of the drivers of London’s double-decker buses with that of the conductors. “And there was a striking difference in the heart-attack …
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We all know the benefits of exercise: health, body image, athletic ability, endurance. But new research links physical activity to expanded brain power.
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While frequent exercise is known to fight obesity and improve mental health, as little as 30 minutes of physical activity one or two days a week can have benefits, according to the 2009 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
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School-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley.
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