Year: 2009

Promoting physical activity during Girl Scout meetings can be an effective way for young girls to get the exercise they need to be healthy, according to a study presented at the American College of Sports Medicine’s 56th Annual Meeting in Seattle. Richard Rosenkranz, Ph.D.
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Exercise and behavioral intervention improves fitness and lowers systolic blood pressure, according to a study presented today at the 56th American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Annual Meeting in Seattle. The findings are consistent with ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine™ ™ (EIM) program, which recommends physical activity as a standard health care component.
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The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index reveals that nearly half of Americans (49%) exercise for at least 30 minutes less than three days per week. Those who are exercising are reaping not only physical, but also emotional benefits.
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Exercise isn’t just about firming up your thighs and toning your triceps.
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New Zealanders get fat because they eat too much, rather than exercise too little, an international study has found
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New Zealanders get fat because they eat too much, rather than exercise too little, an international study has found. New Zealanders were eating 350 to 500 calories more than they needed per day, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) researcher Elaine Rush said.
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New Zealanders’ expanding waistlines have far more to do with overeating than with lack of exercise, a controversial new study contends. The international research has highlighted the disagreement over the causes of the obesity…
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ROXANNE BROWN Staff Writer CLERMONT — Kyndall Truett, an exercise specialist at the National Training Center in Clermont, is out to help cance …
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STOCKTON – Hikers and bikers looped around preset courses of varying lengths Saturday morning in a physical fundraiser designed to fight hunger.
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