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Warmer weather means, time to exercise (KHQA Tri-States)
Warmer weather means more time to get out and exercise.
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Ways to Exercise Without Hurting Your Feet: Tips From AOFAS Surgeons to Keep Your Feet Injury Free While Enjoying … (Marketwire)
ROSEMONT, IL–(Marketwire – May 1, 2009) – Warm spring days have arrived inviting us to jump into our favorite outdoor sports after hibernating all winter. However, a quick move into high physical activity when your feet are not quite ready can cause major injuries to the feet ruining those plans for a summer of fun. Injuries related to plantar fasciitis , arch pain or flat feet , bunions , and …
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Youth to Fight Obesity With World’s Largest Exercise Class (PNN)
Millions of children in schools across the globe will walk, jog, bike or play games on May 6 as a part of Project ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) Day. This Youth Fitness Coalition (YFC) signature program, in partnership with American College of Sports Medicine’s Exercise is Medicine initiative, promotes physical activity to children in order to decrease the prevalence of childhood …
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Governor Perdue Declares May Exercise is Medicine Month in Georgia (WSAV Savannah)
Governor Sonny Perdue signed a proclamation today declaring May Exercise is Medicine Month in Georgia.
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Lack of exercise ‘kills thousands’ (Press Assoc. via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Two thousand people die in Northern Ireland every year due to lack of exercise, a Stormont committee has been warned.
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Youth to Fight Obesity With World’s Largest Exercise Class (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Children around the world exercise in unison for 21st annual Project ACES Day
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No time to exercise? (Naples Florida Weekly)
Between work and family, and sitting in traffic going between work and family, it’s hard to find an extra 30 minutes to hit the treadmill. Sure, experts say you don’t have to do all your exercise at once. You can squeeze it into your day in three 10-minute sessions. But still, what can you really accomplish in 10 minutes?
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Study links ADHD medicine with better test scores
(4 stars)Excessive increase in heart rate before exercise doubles risk of sudden cardiac death in later life (EurekAlert!)
A study of 7746 French male civil servants, published in the European Heart Journal on Wednesday 29 April, has found that men whose heart rate increased the most during mild mental stress just before an exercise test had twice the risk of dying of a sudden heart attack in later life than men whose heart rate did not increase as much.
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