Month: March 2013
Diet and Exercise
Morning exercise enthusiasts should know that a healthy breakfast before working out can provide them with more energy, leading to a more effective workout. Those who don't eat before morning exercise are bound to feel more sluggish, as the majority of …
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10 Exercise Ideas for Families
Build strong bones Bone strengthening exercise is important for all family members. Besides lifting weights (free hand weights are inexpensive compared to a gym membership) there are other activities that get the heart beating, burn calories and build …
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Exercise Nation opens in Arlington
Low-cost gyms are catching on in Washington. Exercise Nation, a woman-owned, low-cost fitness center, has opened a location in Arlington, its first Virginia location. Exercise Nation also has fitness centers in Lutherville and Ellicott City, Md …
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Exercise, Ice Bath Don't Disrupt Sleep
| But because those last two practices cause changes in core body and skin temperatures—factors that influence sleep patterns—researchers in Australia wondered if evening exercise followed by cold-water immersion would disrupt athletes' sleep quality … See all stories on this topic » |
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Study results take almost two years to be released
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results from the average clinical trial take almost two years to be published, according to a new study, despite U.S. regulations calling for a 12-month maximum lag time on the release of most research findings. That’s concerning, researchers said, because publication delays hinder doctors’ ability to make the most well-informed treatment choices with their patients and slow progress within the scientific community. …
Think This Year’s Flu Was Bad? Next Year May Be Worse
If there’s one virus outside of the common cold that most of us have had firsthand experience with, it’s clearly influenza. That alone makes it one virus everyone ought to pay attention to—especially as we end a flu season that started so early, catching many Americans off-guard. Scientists who study the flu are already looking ahead to what the 2013-14 season might hold.
Heart failure successes not seen in younger patients
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Though fewer American adults were hospitalized with heart failure during the last decade, hospitalization rates among heart failure patients under age 55 saw the least change, according to a new study. Based on billing data for almost 1.7 million U.S. heart failure patients, researchers found that the number of hospital stays for the condition fell overall by about 27 percent between 2001 and 2009. “There have been significant reductions in the absolute number of heart failure hospitalizations. It’s just the speed is not the same among the younger patients,” said …
NATO and Russian Federation in Counter Piracy Exercise
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Rethinking objects and form are key to 3D printing revolution
LEUVEN, Belgium (Reuters) – 3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialized products such as medical devices but the real revolution will come when designers start to rethink the shapes of objects. 3D printing removes the limitations of the manufacturing process from the equation, which means whatever can be designed on a computer can be turned into an object, 3D printing specialists say. To really start using the technology to its full potential, designers and engineers need to imagine new products. …