Life style & Fitness
Life style and Fitness
Yo-Yo dieting dangerous even if you’re not overweight
•Losing and regaining weight repeatedly, known as weight cycling or yo-yo dieting, may increase the risk of death from heart disease among postmenopausal women.
•The increased risk was for women who were of normal weight at the start of the study but not for overweight or obese women who reported weight cycling.
•Weight cycling put women at higher risk of sudden cardiac death and coronary heart disease death.
What Molecules You Leave on Your Phone Reveal About Your Lifestyle
Your diet, medications and beauty products leave molecular traces on the objects you touch, providing an unbiased, data-driven profiling method for crime scene investigations and other potential applications
Being fit Protects Against Health Risks Caused by Stress at Work
It is a well-known fact that fitness and well-being go hand in hand. But being in good shape also protects against the health problems that arise when we feel particularly stressed at work. As reported by sports scientists from the University of Basel and colleagues from Sweden, it therefore pays to stay physically active, especially during periods of high stress.
Age no barrier to the benefits of Pilates
Pilates is definitely not just a young person’s activity if the latest University of Tasmania study is any indication.
Multifaceted genetic impact of training
Endurance training changes the activity of thousands of genes and give rise to a multitude of altered DNA-copies, RNA, researchers from Karolinska Institutet report. The study, which also nuances the concept of muscle memory, is published in the journal PLOS Genetics.
Women planning pregnancy urged to consider BMI
Women are being encouraged to ensure their body mass index (BMI) is within a healthy range before pregnancy to ensure the best outcomes for their babies.
An hour to stop the rot
The increased risk of death associated with sitting for eight hours a day could be offset by one hour of physical activity a day.
Tailored texts help ‘maintain the gain’
A public health program that was modelled on University of Queensland research and designed to help people maintain the switch to a healthy lifestyle has been extended.
Midlife fitness is linked to lower stroke risks later in life
Study Highlights:
Being more physically fit in your mid- to late-40s was associated with lower stroke risks after age 65, independent of traditional stroke risk factors such as high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and atrial fibrillation.
Researchers suggest that physicians consider low fitness level a stroke risk factor.
The study underscores how important it is to be physically fit throughout lifetime, not just when you’re younger.
Loughborough University study reveals the best way to improve muscle strength
Engaging in short, explosive leg contractions is the most effective way of strengthening muscles, Loughborough research reveals.
Researchers develop tool to assess athlete diet
Researchers from Massey University and the University of Sydney are working together to develop a tool to assess the quality of dietary intake in high-performing athletes.
Process contaminants in vegetable oils and foods pose potential health concerns finds EFSA
Contaminants in vegetable oils and fats (and foods containing them such as cookies, pastries and others) pose a potential health concern to average consumers for young age groups (infants, toddlers and children under 10 years old).
Wearing heels to work is a game women have been losing for decades
When receptionist Nicola Thorp was told by her employer that she had to wear high heels to work, she pointed out that her male colleagues were not required to do so. When she refused to conform to the company’s dress code policy, she was sent home from her job without pay. The media got hold of the story, public outcry ensued and the firm at the centre of it has now changed its policy.
Frequent religious service attendance linked with decreased mortality risk among women
Boston, MA – Women who attended religious services more than once per week were more than 30% less likely to die during a 16-year-follow-up than women who never attended, according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Frequent attendees also had significantly lower risk both from cardiovascular- and cancer-related mortality.
Physical inactivity increases risk of thrombosis
Women with poor physical fitness display significantly higher platelet activation than women with average to very good fitness.
Adding exercise to health education helps treat addiction, say UCLA researchers
People who included walking or jogging along with resistance training in their treatment had a 15 percent increase in the number of dopamine receptors in the brain.
Can the perception of a child’s weight cause weight gain?
Researchers from the University of Liverpool and Florida State University College of Medicine have conducted a study on the effect the misperception of a child’s weight by their parents can have on a child’s actual weight.