Turn the World Into Your Fitness Routine
07/25/2010 Leave a comment
By: Dan Salupo
According to a team of University of Alberta researchers, food advertisements have a powerful influence on its viewers, especially university students.
07/08/2010 Leave a comment
Exercisers, fitness professionals, and cardiologists alike have been monitoring heartbeats as a way to gauge health and fitness efforts for decades. However, last week, researchers at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago announced the most popular formula used to calculate maximum heart rate is inaccurate for women—because it’s based on data from men.
07/07/2010 Leave a comment
They say measuring only an individual’s BMI, which is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight, can be misleading. Muscle weighs more than fat, for one thing.
07/02/2010 Leave a comment
By: Dan Salupo
Recently, a University of Georgia study demonstrated that over 50% of people model their behavior after those around them. For instance, if the group overate or ate unhealthy food, then even the “healthy” person did the same. It also works the other way around, however it takes a bit more effort to yield healthier outcomes.
06/08/2010 Leave a comment
By: Dan Salupo
In a first-of-its kind study, conducted by the Group Health Center for Health Studies, researchers found yoga to be more effective for low back pain than conventional exercise or getting a self-care book.
06/05/2010 Leave a comment
Posted by: Dan Salupo
Typically, healthy 25 year olds don’t lose sleep at night worrying whether or not they are going to develop diabetes in middle age. The disease is not on their radar, and middle age is a lifetime away.
06/05/2010 Leave a comment
By: Dan Salupo
Meditation alters brain patterns in ways that are likely permanent, scientists have known. But a new study shows key parts of the brain actually get thicker through the practice, according to an article published by LiveScience.
05/26/2010 Leave a comment
Posted by: Dan Salupo
Walking is a popular form of exercise, but may not be enough to experience significant health benefits, a University of Alberta study shows.
05/26/2010 Leave a comment
Posted by: Dan Salupo
For the third straight year, the Washington, D.C., metro area claimed the highest ranking in the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) American Fitness Index™ (AFI), according to a press release by ACSM. Read more of this post
05/20/2010 Leave a comment
While it may seem obvious that more exercise means less obesity, researchers at Indiana University found that such logic applies primarily to white women.
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