Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
... for vigorous activity likely did not translate to sedentary adults whose waistlines and fitness levels would benefit from as little as a daily half-hour walk at a moderate pace....Lack of vigorous activity linked to functional decline in older adults with arthritis
...g, alcohol use, extreme weight gain or loss, and a sedentary lifestyle. Then, they traced each subject's functional decline over the course of two years.Over the two-year period, nearly 14 percent of the patients experienced a measurable decline in their ability to carry out daily activities. Functional abil...Drugs targeted at muscle cells
...ught, to the excessive calorie-rich diets and more sedentary nature of typical Western lifestyles. The receptors in the muscle cells that were studied are called peroxisome proliferators-activated delta receptors (PFAAR) and they reside in the nucleus where they regulate a large number of enzymes involved in t...Canadian youth 4th highest in international obesity study
...Department of Community Health & Epidemiology. And sedentary behaviour like watching television was strongly correlated with being overweight, he adds. Along with this alarming finding is one that runs contrary to what the research team expected. Surprisingly, as consumption of candy and chocolate increased,...Exercise slows development of Alzheimer's-like brain changes in mice, new study finds
...unning wheels for 5 months took less time than the sedentary animals to find the escape platform. The exercised...n the task, while it took more than 4 days for the sedentary mice to reach that same level of performance. This suggests that exercise may help to offset learnin...Attention full-time workers: Get off the computer and out to exercise in your free time!
...rkers who spent more of their down time engaged in sedentary activities had significantly less exercise than part-time workers with the same amount of sedentary leisure pursuits. "Many full-time workers say that one of the biggest barriers to getting enough exe...The link between physical activity and ovarian cancer
...rian cancer risk compared with those who worked in sedentary occupations. Unique to this study was the examination of whether activity-related cancer risk varied by tumor type. Results showed that for moderate recreational activity there was a decreased risk of certain types of ovarian tumors but not for othe...Home-based intervention increases physical activity in breast cancer survivors
...ld exercise at home. They randomized a group of 86 sedentary women who had completed treatment for stage 0 to 2 breast cancer into a physical activity (PA) group or a control group. Participants in the PA group received 12 weeks of PA counseling via weekly telephone calls, as well as weekly tip sheets through ...US specialists call for heart patients to be screened for psychological distress
...ple, the obese, non-drinkers, current smokers, the sedentary and individuals with hypertension or diabetes among heart disease patients with elevated distress levels. "It's hard to know why, but we typically see this in research," said Dr Ferketich. "It may be that there are additional sources of stress in ind...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...e technology revolution of the 1980s produced more sedentary options for children while their caloric intake ha...us physical activity, Dr. Strong says, noting that sedentary children need to increase activity gradually. "Youngsters tend to get bored easily so they have to ...Children need 60 minutes of daily physical activity, expert panel says
...e technology revolution of the 1980s produced more sedentary options for children while their caloric intake ha...us physical activity, Dr. Strong says, noting that sedentary children need to increase activity gradually. "Youngsters tend to get bored easily so they have to ...Psychiatric illnesses are common in children with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes
...r neuropsychiatric illnesses, may itself lead to a sedentary lifestyle, which places children at risk for type 2 diabetes." While this study examined previously diagnosed neuropsychiatric disease, the true frequency of neuropsychiatric conditions in children with type 2 diabetes may be considerably higher, say...Nature publication reports key links between mechanisms of aging and metabolic disorders
...ere plentiful high-calorie food is combined with a sedentary existence, the pancreas increases insulin secretion above normal levels in order to dispose of sustained excess blood glucose which, over time, leads to the deposition of visceral fat." Two major effects result: Increased visceral fat initiates a m...Fun foods and exercise may reduce childhood obesity
... international health priority, as fatty diets and sedentary lifestyles spread across the globe. Severely overweight children suffer a variety of physical and social ills, and they face increased risk of many health problems throughout life even if they grow up to be normal-weight adults. Summerbell readily ac...Family environment is a significant predictor of adolescent obesity
...ren grow up in families with bad eating habits and sedentary lifestyles dominated by television watching and vi...ent of Sociology. "And the amount of time spent in sedentary activities is a strong predictor of weight gain. No surprise." However, a key finding from the study...'Healthy weight, healthy shape' key in preventing heart disease
...ie from heart disease as compared to the inactive, sedentary person. He went on to say that despite this solid epidemiologic evidence, the proportion of people who do not engage in sports at all continues to increase. He added that lack of sports is closely related to the epidemic of other risk factors for fut...Seniors with low age expectations likelier to lead sedentary lives, new UCLA study finds
...at an advanced age -- were the most likely to lead sedentary lifestyles. Seniors with the lowest age expectations were more than twice as likely to report engaging in less than 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity during the previous week than those with higher age expectations. The study was based on t...Exercise in midlife could reduce the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease
...wice a week had a 60% lower odds of AD compared to sedentary people (individuals participating in physical acti...oup had 50% lower odds of dementia compared to the sedentary group. The researchers also found that in individuals who are genetically susceptible to AD (carrier...Study questions widespread use of C-reactive protein test to assess cardiovascular risk
...by traditional risk factors, as well as poor diet, sedentary lifestyle and mental stress." Dr. Miller and his team examined data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) conducted between 1988 and 1994. NHANES III measured CRP levels and heart disease risk factors includi......ng the effects of exercise amount and intensity in sedentary overweight men and women. This finding of the valu...f exercise, the researchers studied 133 overweight sedentary men and women who were beginning to show signs of blood lipid levels high enough to affect their hea...