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By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) — One potential solution to reducing chronic pain: Get moving. A new Norwegian study finds that physically active folks have greater pain tolerance compared to sedentary types. Those with higher levels of activity also had higher pain tolerance, according to the report published online …
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April 11, 2023 — Experts recommend most adults get 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night. If you’re among the roughly one-third of people who sleep less (or more), regular exercise may help you dodge possible long-term health consequences like heart disease and early death. Plenty of research points to sleep and physical activity …
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Some people can never be 100% on vacation… And that could mean that they can’t stop working or, in this case, they stick to their usual routine and get up early to exercise. So did this woman act like a jerk by asking her husband to stop waking up early to exercise on vacation? Check …
“I have a soft board where everyone in my family writes and pins the funniest, strangest, and weirdest things said in our house, heard or read by us out in the world, or done by our pets. I read one every now and then as I pass the wall, and it always brightens my day.” …
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Six minutes of high-intensity exercise might prolong the lifespan of a healthy brain, perhaps delaying the start of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, a new, small study suggests. Researchers found that short but intense cycling increased the production of a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic …
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Jan. 6, 2022 – There’s been a push in recent years encouraging doctors to prescribe exercise as medicine, telling their patients how often, how long, and how hard to work out to improve health. A new Brigham Young University study suggests doctors could take that initiative to the next level, prescribing exercise plans that result …
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Jan. 4, 2023 – Could your gut health be behind your motivation – or lack thereof – to exercise? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently explored this topic when they wanted to find out why some lab mice seem to love their exercise wheel, while others mostly ignore it. To start, the researchers used …
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PHOTO CREDIT: FatCamera / Getty Images SOURCES: Mark Hutchinson, MD, FACSM, professor of orthopedics and sports medicine and head team physician, University of Illinois Chicago; president, ACSM Foundation, Chicago. Gene Shirokobrod, DPT, co-founder, Recharge, Ellicott City, MD. CDC: “How much physical activity do adults need?” OrthoInfo: “Healthy Bones at Every Age.” ChoosePT: “Physical Therapy …
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Scientists have previously found that a majority of identical twins develop different diseases as they get older, even though they have the same genes. Source: https://www.webmd.com/heart/metabolic-syndrome/news/20221209/twins-study-shows-exercise-altering-how-genes-behave?src=RSS_PUBLIC
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Regular exercise has long been hailed as a great way to preserve heart health, but could a morning workout deliver more benefits than an evening visit to the gym? New research suggests that for women in their 40s and up, the answer appears …
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By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Nov. 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Getting regularly scheduled, moderate physical activity can help extend the lives of people with colon cancer, according to a new study. Exercise is even helpful for obese cancer patients, reducing inflammation and improving the bacterial communities of the gut’s microbiome, the findings showed. …
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Nov. 1, 2022 — Exercising while undergoing chemotherapy can help cancer patients overcome the treatment’s debilitating effects and return to normal life faster. That’s according to a new study of 266 patients undergoing chemotherapy for testicular, breast, or colon cancer or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. All the participants took part in a 6-month exercise program, but half started …
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