Sunday, July 17th, 2011
In 2005, Jeffrey Martin, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology, health and sport studies in Wayne State University's College of Education, found that children living in underserved communities are less physically active than their higher-income counterparts. Now, in a follow-up study, Martin has found environmental factors that may affect underserved children's physical ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Many American youngsters are not getting enough physical activity and parents are failing to make their children's health a priority, according to a new study.
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Experts agree that to maintain good health, at least 30 minutes of normal daily physical activity should accompany your accumulated 2.5 hours of weekly vigorous exercise. But our modern lives have us completely at a disadvantage when it comes to being active. Progress and technology have ...
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
If you walk three thousand steps a day, five days each week, your chances of developing diabetes and becoming obese are significantly reduced, Australian researchers report in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). Increase your daily steps over a five year period to 10,000 steps a day, and the benefits skyrocket. ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Men with prostate cancer who exercise vigorously have a significantly lower risk of dying from the disease compared to other diagnosed males, researchers revealed in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Harvard School of Public Health and University of California, San Francisco researchers said this is the first study to examine ...
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