Posts Tagged ‘physical activity’
Sustained Fitness Promotes Long Healthy Life!
Fitness is considered to be a reliable objective marker of habitual physical activity, and body mass index (BMI) is widely accepted as a measure of overall obesity. Duck-chul Lee, from the University of South Carolina at Columbia (South Carolina, USA), and colleagues explored the independent and combined associations of changes in fitness as estimated from…
Read MoreEvidence Supports A New Year’s Resolution to Exercise!
A long-term plan to keep off excess pounds starts with regular physical activity in the years between young adulthood and middle age. Arlene L. Hankinson, from Northwestern University (Illinois, USA), and colleagues studied 3,554 men and women, ages v18 to 30 years at the study’s start, enrolled in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young…
Read MoreStaying Active Lessens Age-Related Weight Gain, Especially in Women!!!
Staying active in young adulthood appears to help individuals lessen the fattening effects of time, with results of a new study showing that physically active young adults do not put on as much weight as their less active counterparts. While some weight gain appears inevitable–even the most active individuals had increases in weight and waist…
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