Health & Fitness
Dangers of … sitting? Regardless of exercise, too much sedentary time is linked to major disability after 60
If you’re 60 and older, every additional hour a day you spend sitting is linked to doubling the risk of being disabled — regardless of how much moderate exercise you get, reports a new Northwestern Medicine® study. The study is the first to show sedentary behavior is its own risk factor for disability, separate from […]
Pregnancy study for overweight women leads to fewer high birth weight babies
The world’s biggest study offering healthy eating and exercise advice to pregnant women who are overweight or obese has shown a significant reduction in the number of babies born over 4kg (8.8 pounds) in weight. The LIMIT Study, led by researchers from the University of Adelaide’s Robinson Institute and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, involved […]
Healthy Snacks, Food And Drink: Broccoli Bread, Fresh Juices And Delivery Boxes
Healthy snacks[1] aren’t just the key to weight loss[2]. When chosen well, they help regulate your blood sugar (so that it doesn’t spike and crash leaving you hunting for the biscuit tin) and are a sustainable way of keeping your energy levels up. HuffPost UK Lifestyle[3] tried three different healthy food and drink brands currently […]
Hormone released after exercise can ‘predict’ biological age
Scientists from Aston University (UK) have discovered a potential molecular link between Irisin, a recently identified hormone released from muscle after bouts of exercise, and the aging process. Irisin, which is naturally present in humans, is capable of reprograming the body’s fat cells to burn energy instead of storing it. This increases the metabolic rate […]
Loaded Movement Training with the ViPR®
ACE: Can you briefly describe the concept of loaded movement training? How is it different than traditional resistance training? Michol Dalcourt: Resistance training is often, and correctly, thought of as the external mass we apply to the human form. With exercise, most of the time in exercise this external mass is moved […]
Excess weight linked to brain changes that may relate to memory, emotions, and appetite
Being overweight appears related to reduced levels of a molecule that reflects brain cell health in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in memory, learning, and emotions, and likely also involved in appetite control, according to a study performed by researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other institutions. The results of the […]
Weather changes may be linked with stroke hospitalization, death
Stroke hospitalization and death rates may rise and fall with changes in environmental temperature and dew point, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2014. “Weather is not something people would typically associate with stroke risk; however, we’ve found weather conditions are among the multiple factors that are associated with […]
Fitness Leadership: Which Side of the Fence Are You On?
The term “fitness leader” is often designated for those who carve the path for all other professionals to follow. While this may be the top of the food chain for the fitness profession, we are all fitness leaders for our clients. Our status or rank in the fitness world is not as important as […]
Child Obesity: Using attention modification program to decrease overeating in obese children
Among the multiple factors that can cause obesity is an abnormal neurocognitive or behavioral response to food cues. The brain becomes wired to seek — and expect — greater rewards from food, which leads to unhealthful overeating. Attention modification programs, which train a person to ignore or disregard specific, problematic cues or triggers, have been […]
Obesity in Samoa: A global harbinger?
The South Pacific archipelago of Samoa and American Samoa harbors a global health mystery that may seem both remote and extreme but could foretell trends in obesity and related conditions across much of the developing world. About three-quarters of the U.S. territory’s adult population is obese, the highest rate in the world with independent Samoa […]