Healthy Lifestyle
Kapler's Workout Tips On Best Way To Use Gravitron
Updated MAR 19, 2014 8:35p ET Around the third week of spring training, the training room becomes a crowded place. From Tommy John surgeries to minor injuries to the lower extremities, getting banged up, and worse, is part of the game. When an injury robs a player of his ability to train the way hes […]
Tooth loss linked to depression, anxiety
Today, at the 43rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, R. Constance Wiener, from West Virginia University, Morgantown, will present a research study titled “Association of Tooth Loss and Depression and Anxiety.” Tooth loss […]
'biggest Loser' Shares Tips For Shedding Pounds
Success in weight loss comes down to three principles: manage your mouth, multiply your muscle and master your mind. Theyre the guidelines laid out by former Biggest Loser contestant Pete Thomas to a full house of attendees at the Rustic Lodge in White Township on Thursday. The event coincided with Indiana Regional Medical Centers Institute […]
Not only is she thinner than you, her muscles work better, too: Role of muscle function in maintaining weight
We all know the type: The friend or colleague who stays slim and trim without much effort and despite eating the same high-calorie fare that causes everyone else to gain weight. As it turns out, the way the muscles of the inherently thin work may give them the edge. Daily physical activity is an inherited […]
Jodie Kidd: The Model Who Loves Pizza And Shuns Extreme Fitness Regimes
Model, polo player and racing car enthusiast Jodie Kidd shares her fitness and beauty secrets BY Sarah Royce-Greensill | 20 March 2014 There’s no rushing from Barrecore to TRX while nibbling on the latest superfood fad for Jodie Kidd. The 35-year old ex-supermodel advocates a far more relaxed approach to health and fitness. “Fitness and dieting […]
One-third of kids with obesity ‘metabolically healthy,’ study shows
Digits on a scale can help determine a child’s weight, but their overall health status can be influenced by other factors such as physical activity, diet and screen time, according to new research from the University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services. A study of 181 children with obesity aged eight to 17 years old […]
Childhood abuse may impair weight-regulating hormones
Childhood abuse or neglect can lead to long-term hormone impairment that raises the risk of developing obesity, diabetes or other metabolic disorders in adulthood, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). The study examined levels of the weight-regulating hormones leptin, adiponectin and irisin in the […]
A diet to make you fat or fit? The role of ‘sumo stew’ in shaping a sumo wrestler
A recent study published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science, ‘Bodies steeped in stew: sport, tradition and the bodies of the sumo wrestler’ by R. Kenji Tierney (Anthropology Department, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA), explores the meanings of ‘fat’ and obesity in sumo and Japanese culture and the part that […]
Program taught in American Sign Language helps deaf achieve healthier weight
A group of deaf adults using American Sign Language in a healthy lifestyle program successfully lost weight, according to a study presented Wednesday. In the first randomized trial of lifestyle modification or weight reduction with deaf people using American Sign Language, participants had moderate improvements in their weight and level of physical activity after a […]