KELOLAND.com | Alternative Medicine For Your Health
In addition to medication, some people with chronic health conditions are now getting help from things like aromatherapy.
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Month: March 2013
The You Docs Tip of the Day: Exercise can reduce prostate-cancer risk
But according to a new study, working out does NOT protect even the most active black men from prostate cancer (and they're 40 percent more likely to develop the disease in the first place). But moderate or heavy exercise does slash the risk for whites …
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When Exercise Stresses You Out
| For most people, exercise elevates mood. Repeated studies with humans and animals have shown that regular workouts can increase stress resistance, decrease anxiety, lessen symptoms of depression and generally leave people cheerful. See all stories on this topic » |
 New York Times (blog) |
At-Home Exercise Programs Great Way For Adults To Get In Shape
| Not having time to drive down to the gym to work out each day is a popular excuse, but being able to forgo that drive by just popping in a DVD is one way to counter it. A new study looked into how effective home-based DVD exercise programs are. See all stories on this topic » |
 RedOrbit |
A Little of This, a Little of That for Older Exercisers
| “If you're sedentary and you start doing everything the guidelines recommend, that's a big change in lifestyle,” said Dr. Michael Rogers, an exercise physiologist and director of the Center for Physical Activity and Aging at Wichita State University in … See all stories on this topic » |
 New York Times |
Interval training can boost exercise effects while reducing a …
Short bouts of extra intensity are balanced by slower-paced recovery periods.
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Older adults benefit from home-based DVD exercise program
A home-based DVD exercise program for people 65 and older offers clinically significant benefits known to be linked to the maintenance of independent living …
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Missouri's official state exercise could be jumping jacks
Thus, it's a bit of a surprise to learn that Missouri is considering adopting jumping jacks as its official exercise. The Kansas City Star reports that state Rep. Pat Conway (D-St. Joseph) has introduced a bill, as he did last year, seeking to deem …
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London Restaurant Lets You Exercise While You Eat
| Next, they partake in an standing-only 40-minute exercise class that promises to burn 300 calories called "Body Balance", a Pilates, yoga, Tai chi combo designed by former Olympian Les Mills. The room is also kept chilly so patrons won't sweat before … See all stories on this topic » |
 Yahoo! Movies (blog) |
Working Exercise Into Your Work Day
| Until December, I used to walk about 40 minutes every day as part of my daily commute. Since my job change, I've had to take the subway so the built-in exercise was eliminated. To add some exercise into my daily life without having to carve out extra … See all stories on this topic » |
 Wall Street Journal (blog) |
Three charged with hazing in California student’s death
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Prosecutors in California charged three former members of a now-closed Fresno State fraternity on Tuesday with misdemeanor hazing in connection with the death last year of a pledge who died of alcohol intoxication during initiation. Leonard Louis Serrato, 28, Aaron Joseph Raymo, 24, and Daniel Woodard Baker, 22, were charged with one count each of hazing and providing alcohol to a person under the age of 21. They face a possible sentence of six months to a year in jail and $5,000 fine if convicted at trial. …
Family docs can treat simple sleep apnea: study
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – With some basic training, primary care doctors and nurses could treat uncomplicated sleep apnea cases, according to a new study from Australia that highlights the potential cost savings compared to treatment at specialty sleep medicine centers. The researchers, who followed 155 people with sleep apnea over six months, found that those treated by family doctors and nurses who had undergone a brief training regimen improved just as much on a scale that measures daytime tiredness as people who were treated by sleep specialists. …