Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
A recent article in the New York Times, “How Exercise Benefits the Brain,” Gretchen Reynolds reviews recent scientific studies that demonstrate the connection between physical exercise and thinking. In one of these studies, people were given …
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It's well-established that exercise can be a powerful tool against depression (as Gretchen Reynolds wrote about in the New York Times a few months ago). …
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| But each produced essentially the same result, the review authors write, showing that “stretching does not produce important reductions in muscle soreness in the days following exercise.” That does not mean that you shouldn't stretch, … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Nidetch suggested they diet together, meeting every week to hold each other accountable. With the help of her friends, she lost 72 pounds. Two years later, she founded Weight Watchers. Weight Watchers' eating plan is perfectly reasonable. … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Exercise, the thinking goes, and you might be able to rewrite the future for your muscles. Consider the results of a stirring study published last month in the journal The Physician and Sportsmedicine. For it, researchers at the University of … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Even if you've already overindulged, the studies suggest, exercise can lessen or reverse the unwelcome consequences. For the studies, Paul T. Williams, a staff scientist in the life sciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Research shows that despite longstanding resistance, alternative medicine is gaining ground in some doctors' offices too. A study by Harvard Medical School in May found that one in 30 Americans — as many as six million people — used an alternative … See all stories on this topic » |
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| But, as a result, they were no more active, on a daily basis, than they had been before starting the exercise regimen. Their bodies had compensated for the walking and kept their overall energy expenditure about the same. The implications of such … See all stories on this topic » |
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| By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Can exercise make the brain more fit? That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour a day on little treadmills, … See all stories on this topic » |
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| They were not new to exercise. All of the participants began the experiment with testing to quantify how hard they could exercise. The researchers looked at measures like maximum heart rate and oxygen-carrying capacity, or VO 2 max, a measure of how … See all stories on this topic » |
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| It showed that teenage boys who took part in a smoking cessation program and combined it with exercise were several times less likely to continue smoking than those who received only traditional anti-smoking advice. Exercise did not have a comparable … See all stories on this topic » |
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| Dr. Trivedi and his colleagues began to wonder if adding a formal “dose” of exercise would increase their chances of getting better. Certainly the possibility was worth investigating. Clinical depression, as anyone who has experienced or watched a … See all stories on this topic » |
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