Fitness or Fatness: What Matters Most?
Recent studies suggests that greater health benefits may come from making lifestyle choices for fitness rather than from aiming strictly at weight loss.
Diabetes Fitness and Exercise
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The Benefits of Exercise
Diabetes 101: Exercise should be an integral part of the treatment plan for persons with diabetes.
Walking for Exercise: A Step in the Right Direction
Walking is one of the easiest ways to exercise. You can do it almost anywhere and at any time. Walking is also inexpensive. All you need is apair of comfortable shoes.
Sizing Up Surgery
Many people have surgery “performed on them without understanding its necessity “or accomplishments. Learn how you can enhance your “rights as a consenting individual. The more you know“ what’s being done, the more involved you’ll become in “your care.
Exercise with Care – Fitness is not Risk-Free
Early one morning you’re out jogging along your favorite path, getting the“heartbeat going a little faster and feeling good, when suddenly, your ankle “twists and your leg gives way. You groan in pain and mutter something about“that hole you stepped in not being there yesterday….
Five Common Myths About Exercise
Five Common Myths About Exercise – Find out if your what you think is true is actually fact or fiction.
Exercise Makes Instant Difference in Reducing Blood Pressure
The long-term benefits of exercise in reducing high blood pressure are well known, but a recent study by the University of Maryland published in the January issue of the American Journal of Hypertension shows that they can be immediate as well.
Experiencing Back Pain? Try These Lower-Back Exercises
Strong lower-back muscles and abdominals work together in maintaining a pain-free and healthy back. These exercises will help strengthen the muscles of the lower back, but it is important that you begin your exercises slowly and increase levels gradually. Always begin any exercise program with stretching. Talk to your doctor before attempting any exercises, especially if you are already experiencing back pain.
Gestational Diabetes and Exercise
A daily exercise program is an important part of a healthy pregnancy. Daily exercise helps you feel better and reduces stress. In addition, being physically fit protects against back pain, and maintains muscle tone, strength, and endurance. For women with gestational diabetes, exercise is especially important.
The Benefits and Risks of Exercise in Patients with NIDDM and How Exercise Should Be Prescribed
The effect of regular physical exercise alone on metabolic control in NIDDM is quite variable and frequently of small magnitude. Greater improvement in glucose homeostasis can usually be obtained by weight loss. Despite the relatively small impact of exercise demonstrated to date, regular physical exercise may be a therapeutic component supplementing diet in selected patients.
A Walk A Day …
The popularity of walking as a fitness activity is growing by leaps and bounds. Low risk and easy to start, walking has proved its health benefits in numerous studies. An eight-year study of 13,000 people found that those who walked 30 minutes a day had a significantly lower risk of premature death than those who rarely exercised.
