Exercise Counseling Improves Level Of Fitness; Physicians Need More Guidance (Medical News Today)
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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‘Miracle drug’ called junk science
In U.S., Nearly Half Exercise Less Than Three Days a Week (Gallup)
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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Fitness: Exercise especially does the heart good (The News-Press)
Overeating, not lack of exercise makes us fat (TVNZ)
New Zealanders get fat because they eat too much, rather than exercise too little, an international study has found
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Too much food, not too little exercise, making us fat: study (Otago Daily Times)
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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Diet more important than exercise (The New Zealand Herald)
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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Fighting cancer? Exercise program can help patients feel and heal better (The Daily Commercial)
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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Physical fundraising aids region’s hunger fight (The Stockton Record)
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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Climb stairs for great exercise (The Standard-Times)
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 72 years old. I walk up and down 15 flights of stairs, each flight having 17 steps. I do this once a day. Is that enough exercise for me?
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Study: Intense Exercise Gets New Knees Moving (CBS4 Miami)
Nearly half-a-million total knee replacements are done in the United States each year. Doctors are performing the surgery on patients who are younger and younger. Now, a study shows intense physical therapy is key to recovering from getting a new knee.
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