Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, together with Wake Forest University, will play a key role in a new study that seeks to determine whether a program of structured physical activity can prevent or delay major mobility disabilities in older adults.
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A healthy dose of exercise might be just what the doctor ordered at the Family Counseling Center in Kittanning. That’s what Kelly Rock, a certified registered nurse practitioner there, hopes will happen for some of the counseling center’s female mental health consumers.
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NeoStem, Inc. , an international biopharmaceutical company with operations in the U.S. and China, is pleased to announce the exercise of a warrant by a principal shareholder, RimAsia Capital Partners, LP .
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If your back were injured you’d most likely go to the doctor and then require some type of physical therapy. However, when it comes to your pets and their injuries, you might think surgery or painful shots are the only way to give them pain relief. But, more North Texans are discovering alternative therapies that can help your pet and save you money.
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Diet and aerobic exercise are highly effective for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but not for obese subjects that have developed the disease when very young. A study at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and Trinity College in Dublin demonstrates that obese subjects between 18 and 25 years of age carry mitochondrial proteins and genes that work abnormally and that these anomalies …
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Researchers are hoping to recruit overweight people aged 35-60 who are not currently exercising for a new study that will look at the best walking-based ‘exercise prescription’ to motivate them to participate in physical activity.
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More than half of Britons would rather shift excess weight through drastic surgery than diet or exercise, a new poll has suggested. Women see weight-loss operations as the key to quick results while some men regard it as the “lazy option”, it found. The survey was carried out among 1,305 members of the public on behalf of the Good Surgeon Guide website. When asked how they would like to lose …
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Physical fitness and exercise classes offered throughLinn-Benton Community College’s centers in Lebanon and Sweet Homewill begin the week of March 29.
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The excuse that there is not enough time to exercise effectively is beginning to wear thin according to evidence from a study by scientists in Canada who found that short term high-intensity interval training (HIT) can deliver in significantly less time the same health benefits as moderate long term “endurance” training. The scientists who did the study are based at McMaster University, Hamilton …
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( Wiley-Blackwell ) The usual excuse of “lack of time” for not doing enough exercise is blown away by new research published in the Journal of Physiology. The study, from scientists at Canada’s McMaster University, adds to the growing evidence for the benefits of short term high-intensity interval training as a time-efficient but safe alternative to traditional types of moderate long term …
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