Are You Moving Enough At Work?
Research continues to link significant health risks with a sedentary lifestyle. Moving throughout your work day can have a significant impact on your health.
June 22, 2015
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Research continues to link significant health risks with a sedentary lifestyle. Moving throughout your work day can have a significant impact on your health.
Diabetics who exercise can trim waist size and body fat, and control blood glucose, even if they don’t see cardiorespiratory benefits, new research by UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists shows.
In a paper recently published in Diabetes Care, Saint Louis University associate professor of nutrition and dietetics Edward Weiss, Ph.D, and colleagues found that, though people often think of the benefits from exercise, calorie restriction and weight loss as interchangeable, it appears that they may all offer distinct and cumulative benefits when it comes to managing Type 2 diabetes risk.
Prolonged sitting at work and at home is a major risk factor for disease and premature death. An intriguing study sought to determine if walking for 2 minutes per hour has an impact on health.
Do you need another reason to exercise regularly? Would you consider it, if it cut your risk of dying prematurely in half?
Following a systematic review of 37 randomized controlled trials, investigators from the Netherlands and USA have found that yoga may provide the same benefits in risk factor reduction as such traditional physical activities as biking or brisk walking.
Can exercise slow down the age-related physical decline of your joints and muscles?
Are you taking good care of your health? Here’s a new study that once again confirms the that a healthy diet, a good night’s sleep and exercise can protect your body against the damages caused by stress.
A new study from UC San Francisco is the first to show that while the impact of life’s stressors accumulate overtime and accelerate cellular aging, these negative effects may be reduced by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleeping well.