by Len Canter When it comes to sculpting a better booty, here’s the bottom line: You need to strengthen your glutes. And more than giving these muscles a toned look, working them also improves the mobility of your hips, helps stabilize your core and eases lower back pain. Here are three to add to your...
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Get moving: Exercise can help lower older women’s fracture risk
by Amy Norton, Healthday Reporter (HealthDay)—Older women who get even light exercise, like a daily walk, may lower their risk of suffering a broken hip, a large study suggests. A number of studies have linked regular exercise to a lower risk of hip fracture—a potentially disabling or even fatal injury for older adults. Each year,...
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Should You Exercise With Osteoarthritis?
By Mihaela Dimitrova, B.Sc.Reviewed by Dr. Jennifer Logan, MD, MPH Skip to: What is osteoarthritis? How is exercise beneficial for people with osteoarthritis? Recommended exercises Concluding rem arks Physical exercise provides benefits that range from weight control and disease management to improved psychological wellbeing. Despite the many positive outcomes of physical exercise, community perception and lay press...
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The new exercise trend that’s made for everyone
Bringing the science of high intensity interval training (HIIT) into everyday life could be the key to helping unfit, overweight people get more of the exercise they need to improve their health, according to an international research team. Adult walking up stairs. Credit: Pixabay From washing the car to climbing stairs or carrying groceries, each...
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Train harder, for less time: Resistance exercise program builds muscle and reduces diabetes risk
It has been said that “if exercise could be packaged in a pill, it would be the single most prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation.” Now, new research, published in Experimental Physiology by researchers from the University of Glasgow, has highlighted several of the positive health effects of a short duration, high-intensity resistance exercise...
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Should you exercise when you’re sick?
You just worked out all of the kinks in your workout routine and now…you’re sick. What do you do? Do you sweat through it or forsake the gym for a much-needed nap? Follow these tips for working out when you’re sick. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Listen to your body If your symptoms are mild such...
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Exercise is medicine, and doctors are starting to prescribe it
There is a movement afoot (pun intended) to get more people exercising by involving their family doctors. Exercise is an effective medicine for many patients dealing with heart disease, dementia, depression, stroke and cancer. Credit: Shutterstock In the United Kingdom, the government recently released Moving Medicine —an online resource to help doctors talk to their...
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Eating breakfast burns more carbs during exercise and accelerates metabolism for next meal
Eating breakfast before exercise may “prime” the body to burn carbohydrates during exercise and more rapidly digest food after working out, University of Bath researchers have found. IMAGE: NEW RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY SUGGESTS THAT EATING BREAKFAST COULD ‘PRIME’ THE BODY TO BURN CARBOHYDRATES DURING EXERCISE AND MORE RAPIDLY METABOLISE FOODS AFTER WORKING OUT...
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Exercise cuts risk of chronic disease in older adults
New research has shown that older adults who exercise above current recommended levels have a reduced risk of developing chronic disease compared with those who do not exercise. Researchers at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research interviewed more than 1,500 Australian adults aged over 50 and followed them over a 10-year period. People who engaged...
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A few minutes of light exercise, rather than a sweaty gym workout, is all that is needed to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, study suggests
Even a little exercise wards off insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes Resistance occurs when the cells of the human body stop responding to insulin Insulin is a hormone that works to regulate blood sugar levels in the body Exercise can prevent resistance by forcing the body to remove damaged cells Even small...