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Exercise prolongs life for older folks, although it may take years to kick in


updated 8:28 a.m. ET, Fri., March. 6, 2009

LONDON - People who put off regular exercise until they hit the age of 50 can still benefit from physical activity but it appears to take 10 years for the effects to kick in, Swedish researchers said Friday.

A study of 2,205 Swedish men followed for more than 20 years from the age of 50 showed that exercise made no difference in premature death rates for at least a decade for those who waited until later in life to start physical activity.

"It has been shown that young people benefit from exercise but this is the first time we have been able to show that old people can also...
 
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2009) — When it comes to the hippocampus, a brain structure vital to certain types of memory, size matters.

Numerous studies have shown that bigger is usually better. Now researchers have found that elderly adults who are more physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampi and better spatial memory than those who are less fit.

The study, in the journal Hippocampus, shows that hippocampus size in physically fit adults accounts for about 40 percent of their advantage in spatial memory...

by SHAPE Magazine, on Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:28am PST

Your time is valuable, and for each precious moment you put into your workouts, you want to ensure you get the best possible return on your investment. So, are you getting the results you want?

If your body isn't as lean or toned as you'd like, it may be that you're committing some key training mistakes, which can sabotage the efforts of even veteran exercisers.

Of course, you probably know the more obvious mistakes to avoid. For instance, skipping your warm-up may cause you to fatigue early, preventing you from realizing your potential. Furthermore, leaning on the stair climber or elliptical trainer may allow you to stay on longer, but it drastically reduces the challenge to your lower body as well as the number of calories you burn.

But what about the less obvious errors you may be making? Here, we'll discuss some of the more subtle -- yet no less serious -- faux pas of fitness and the strength-training exercises most frequently flubbed, and show you how they can be fixed with nearly effortless corrections.

NEW YORK - Americans squeezed by the economic crisis are still forking out money for gym memberships and dieting centers but health clubs are having to hold down their fees to keep customers coming in.

The Equinox Fitness chain of upscale health clubs on the east and west U.S. coasts saw a 13 percent year-on-year jump in those working out the first Monday of the new year, and analysts at Stifel Nicolaus estimated that overall health club memberships would rise more than 4 percent this year.

"That is a reflection on how (people) have a desire to, in this stressful environment, live a healthy, balanced life," Equinox Chief Executive Harvey Spevak said, adding that members had cut spending on luxurious spa treatments...

James Villepigue here with a quick note: Now more than ever, we as individuals, need to take control over those things we still have control of; one such thing being our health. If you don't know it already, exercise along with healthy eating have many positive body altering benefits.

What you might not realize is that more than anything else, these benefits naturally spill over into all aspects of ones life, creating many life changing benefits. When you are of healthier
body, you will be of healthier mind.

Together, they create the perfect recipe for total life empowerment and will allow you to have more control and thus better outcomes in everything from your health, career, relationships and the list just goes on and on.

Good Luck & God Bless Us All!

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updated 3:45 p.m. ET, Tues., Feb. 10, 2009

Updated guidelines recommend more daily activity to battle weight gain

NEW YORK - Greater amounts of physical activity than currently recommended may be necessary to prevent people from gaining weight, and to help them lose weight and keep it off, according to updated guidelines issued by the American College of Sports Medicine.

"In the midst of a genuine crisis in Americans' health related to what we eat and how little we move, these guidelines are meant to provide an understanding and clarification of the role of physical activity and its relationship to weight," Dr. Joseph E. Donnelly of the University of Kansas in Lawrence and chair of the advisory committee noted in a statement.

"Now that we have the latest information on how much physical activity is part of the equation, we can continue the educational process to help people who struggle with their weight," Donnelly added.

Written on February 14, 2009 – 3:35 am | by admin

The current economic woes will force many of us to make some difficult decisions. When faced with the task of trimming the fat from the family budget, costly gym memberships and pre-packaged weight-loss food plans are often the first items on the chopping block.

At the same time, the effort to get the most out of every grocery dollar often results in an increase in our consumption of cheap convenience foods (remember all those ramen noodles you ate as a starving college student?) that offer little by way of actual nutrition. Unfortunately, unhealthy habits bring an entirely new set of woes. These short-term fixes will often cost us more in the long run.

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By Len Kravitz, Ph.D. and Ron Andrews, M.S., P.T.

The Importance of Muscular Endurance
A convincing relation exists between low back pain and decreased muscular endurance. Devries (1968) found differences in EMG fatigue curves between those in whom back pain did and did not develop during prolonged postural stress.

From his findings he suggested the association of muscular deficiency and low muscular endurance with low back pain. Magora (1974) also reported that occupational postural disorders, where prolonged maintenance of a particular posture occur, were a causal factor to low back pain.

A clear distinction in the value of muscular strength and muscular endurance should be accentuated, since it is known that muscular endurance fitness training may be affected without a corresponding result being seen in muscular strength.

It has been shown that patients with low back pain have decreased levels of muscular endurance in the lumbar extensors (Biering-Sorenson, 1984). It has also been reported that abdominal muscular endurance in patients with low back pain is less than those in the normal health population (Foster & Fulton, 1991). Therefore, these investigations support the application of endurance exercises that incorporate the back extensors as well as the abdominal muscles.

There is no good evidence supporting a harmful effect of exercise on joints in the setting of normal joints and regular exercise, according to a review of studies published in this month's issue of the Journal of Anatomy.

Exercise is an extremely popular leisure-time activity in many countries throughout the Western world and has for many become part of the modern lifestyle.

It is widely promoted in as being beneficial for weight control, disease management in cardiovascular disease and diabetes, and for improving psychological well-being amongst an array of other benefits.

In contrast, however, the lay press and community perception is also that exercise is potentially deleterious to one's joints, in particular those of the lower extremities.

Researchers from Boston, USA, and Ainring, Germany, reviewed existing studies on the relationship between regular exercise and osteoarthritis (OA) and concluded that in the absence of existing joint injury there is no increased risk of OA from exercise.