Exercise in Biological News

Health benefits of physical activity more pronounced in women

... experimental studies have found that physical exercise can improve cholesterol levels and subsequently ... women, experience greater benefits as a result of exercise than men. The analysis of this large ... year period, all individuals who increased their exercise by about 180 metabolic units per week (equivalent ...

Most older long-term cancer survivors have poor health habits

... cancer survivors who are interested in diet and exercise actually have poor health habits. The study also reveals that those survivors who do exercise and watch their diet have improved physical ... determine individuals' eligibility for a diet and exercise intervention trial. Interviews assessed exercise, ...

Researcher finds Girl Scout meetings provide an opportunity to increase girls' physical activity

... troops. He trained group leaders to instruct exercise sessions and promote healthful eating, and in ... lifestyle and increased their participation in exercise activities. "We were striving to get the girls ... and moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise during troop meetings. Statistically, ...

3 to 6 months to lose weight gained in pregnancy is normal

... pregnancy is not a time to overeat." A lot of exercise in the weeks after birth will not necessarily ... to lose the weight they gained in pregnancy. exercise is important when people are overweight, but after pregnancy, a lot of exercise does not necessarily help a great deal. The ...

USC researchers present diabetes findings at American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions

... including helping diabetes patients avoid "post exercise hypoglycemia," the role of pancreatic beta cells ... expert commentary on diabetes research. exercise Anne Peters, M.D., professor of medicine and ... the management of diabetes treatment, the role of exercise in treatment of diabetes, and patients' ...

New study finds lowfat chocolate milk is effective post-exercise recovery aid for soccer players

... JUNE 1, 2009, SEATTLE Soccer players and exercise enthusiasts now have another reason to reach for ... Many experts agree that the two-hour window after exercise is an important, yet often neglected, part of a ... of a workout and stay in top shape for the next exercise bout. Sweating not only results in fluid losses, ...

Athletes with asthma need more help from their team trainers

... journal, Medicine & Science in Sports & exercise . "We wanted to see how well asthma is being ... This airway obstruction usually occurs just after exercise and is much more common in college athletes than ... poor performance or simply being out of shape. exercise is one of the most common triggers of ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

... (OC) yet its effect on their body composition and exercise performance has not been thoroughly studied. A ... and completed a 10-week whole-body resistance exercise training (RET). Group 1 consisted of 34 women who ... per week for ten weeks under the supervision of exercise physiologists. They performed a variety of ...

Differences among exercisers and nonexercisers during pregnancy

... people on earth. And while the benefits of exercise for these women and their developing fetuses are ... a larger study looking at the effect of maternal exercise on fetal development. The results suggest, among ... specific activities in order to have time for exercise and to determine if there were any trends between ...

Effects of maternal exercise on fetal breathing movements

... NEW ORLEANS exercise has many benefits for adults, teens, and youngsters. It is less clear what benefit, if any, exercise may have during fetal growth during gestation. ... determined that, generally speaking, maternal exercise poses no significant risk to a fetus, studies are ...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

... (OC) yet its effect on their body composition and exercise performance has not been thoroughly studied. A ... and completed a 10-week whole-body resistance exercise training (RET). Group 1 consisted of 34 women who ... per week for ten weeks under the supervision of exercise physiologists. They performed a variety of ...

Differences among exercisers and nonexercisers during pregnancy

... people on earth. And while the benefits of exercise for these women and their developing fetuses are ... a larger study looking at the effect of maternal exercise on fetal development. The results suggest, among ... specific activities in order to have time for exercise and to determine if there were any trends between ...

Effects of maternal exercise on fetal breathing movements

... NEW ORLEANS exercise has many benefits for adults, teens, and youngsters. It is less clear what benefit, if any, exercise may have during fetal growth during gestation. ... determined that, generally speaking, maternal exercise poses no significant risk to a fetus, studies are ...

Astronauts may need more intense workouts to maintain muscle fitness in space

... that changes are needed to optimize the inflight exercise regimen for astronauts to improve their muscle ... paramount for safety and mission success. Since exercise is the primary course of action to protect the ... that when high-intensity resistance and aerobic exercise are balanced correctly, this is an effective ...

Health choices predict cancer survival, U-M study finds

... neck cancer patients who smoked, drank, didn't exercise or didn't eat enough fruit when they were ... health behaviors: smoking, alcohol use, diet, exercise and sleep. Patients were surveyed every three ... although vegetable intake was not. Lack of exercise also appears to decrease survival. "Health ...

Physical activity may strengthen children's ability to pay attention

... classes, recess periods and after-school exercise programs. The research, led by Charles Hillman, a ... the increase in reading comprehension following exercise equated to approximately a full grade level. "Thus, the exercise effect on achievement is not statistically ...

As good as it gets: Octogenarian muscles don't get stronger with exercise

... the women's thigh muscle using an MRI, before the exercise program began and after it ended. They also took ... with aerobic tasks, including endurance exercise such as marathons. Fast-twitch muscles are ... change in muscle strength As a result of the exercise program, the octogenarians were able to increase ...

A little java makes it easier to jive, researcher says

... investigations considering such variables as exercise intensity, dose of caffeine, anxiety sensitivity ... study on the effects of caffeine on pain during exercise appears in the April edition of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and exercise Metabolism . "This study looks at the effects ...

Symposium to look at genetic basis of exercise

... genes. Research into the role genes play in exercise has been gaining steam over the past few decades ... will talk on Genetics and the response to exercise in human populations. The symposium will also ... Some of the research into the genetics of exercise has focused on individual genes. Dr. Olfert has ...

Building strong bones: Running may provide more benefits than resistance training, MU study finds

... professor in the Department of Nutrition and exercise Physiology in the MU College of Human ... the true effects of weight-bearing or resistance exercise are only apparent when controlling for ... such as resistance training or running, to their exercise regimens. "Exercise programs to increase ...

Mental fatigue can affect physical endurance

... a mentally fatiguing task prior to a difficult exercise test, they reached exhaustion more quickly than when they did the same exercise when mentally rested, a new study finds. The ... exactly why people with mental fatigue perceive exercise to be more difficult. Samuele M. Marcora, ...

Gardening gives older adults benefits like hand strength and self-esteem

... use their hands all of the time, so that was good exercise -- and they really enjoyed it." Park, ... the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's exercise recommendations. News coverage included an ... raking, which uses the whole body, had the most exercise benefit, whereas activities like mixing soil or ...

Gardening gives older adults benefits like hand strength and self esteem

... use their hands all of the time, so that was good exercise -- and they really enjoyed it." Park, ... the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's exercise recommendations. News coverage included an ... raking, which uses the whole body, had the most exercise benefit, whereas activities like mixing soil or ...

Exercise no danger for joints

... no good evidence supporting a harmful effect of exercise on joints in the setting of normal joints and ... month's issue of the Journal of Anatomy . exercise is an extremely popular leisure-time activity in ... lay press and community perception is also that exercise is potentially deleterious to one's joints, in ...

F-MARC funds more 'soccer and health' research

... soccer, shows research from the Department of exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen. ... "Integrated Physiology" at the Department of exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen. ... in the debate on how companies can organize exercise at the workplace. ...

Step out for PAD

... You probably know that poor diet and lack of exercise can lead to dangerous deposits of fatty plaques ... of Physiology shows that regular, moderate exercise can go a long way to relieving the symptoms of ... muscle function in rats that were put on regular exercise training. The collateral vessels themselves ...

Exercise helps overweight children reduce anger expression

... AUGUSTA, Ga. - Regular exercise seems to reduce anger expression in overweight ... participated in a 10-15 week afterschool aerobic exercise program or maintained their usual inactive ... of Medicine. "This finding indicates that aerobic exercise may be an effective strategy to help overweight ...

Exercise increases brain growth factor and receptors, prevents stem cell drop in middle age

... (Nov. 18, 2008) − A new study confirms that exercise can reverse the age-related decline in the ... brain, and suggests that this happens because exercise restores a brain chemical which promotes the ... by the time mice are middle age and that exercise can slow that trend. In the current study, the ...

Physical activity and health: Finding the right prescription

... why exactly is it good for you? What effect does exercise have on the cells and tissues of the body? What ... I know first hand the positive effect of regular exercise on health and quality of life. We have had ... encouraging all citizens to make regular physical exercise part of their daily lives. The impact of in ...

American Dietetic Association releases 2008 nutrition trends survey

... feel that maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise are very important; are concerned about diet, ... feel that maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise are very important, but may not have taken ... Don't Bother Me: People who do not feel diet and exercise are very important to them and are the least ...

A new weapon in the fight against obesity and diabetes

... tolerance and insulin sensitivity and enhances exercise endurance by enhancing fat utilization in certain ... of our cells. Because dietary management and exercise rarely succeed by themselves in curbing obesity ... the distance as control animals in an endurance exercise test. ...

Study may explain exercise-induced fatigue in muscular dystrophies

... suggests that the prolonged fatigue after mild exercise that occurs in people with many forms of muscular ... inactivity of dystrophic mice following mild exercise was very similar to the fatigue experience by ... mice without nNOS have normal muscles and can exercise quite well, but after just mild exercise, we ...

Recommendations for children's exercise lacking say experts

... research that suggests the one hour of moderate exercise a day recommended to children from health experts ... of girls met the government recommended daily exercise level of one hour of moderate exercise. The study also found that exercise alone had no positive effect on weight control ...

Guidelines urge physical activity during pregnancy

... years. "While it used to be thought that avoiding exercise meant avoiding harm to the fetus, research now ... "In the time I have been performing research on exercise during pregnancy, we have shifted from cautious ... per week. The move toward measuring recommended exercise by overall minutes as opposed to specific time ...

For insulin sensitive overweight patients, 1 session of exercise improves metabolic health

... A team of researchers has examined the effect of exercise on fat accumulation in a new study involving five ... conversely, just one session of exercise increased the rate of fat-burning oxidation; and exercise increased the amount of fat that would eventually ...

Lessons from the Iditarod

... ) conference, The Integrative Biology of exercise V, being held September 24-27, 2008 in Hilton Head, SC. How Do They Do It? The exercise Physiology of Sled Dogs The physiological ... their findings is: Rapid Adaptation to exercise and EnduranceThe most striking feature of these ...

Older people who diet without exercising lose valuable muscle mass

... overweight older people placed on a four-month exercise program not only became more fit, but burned off ... The study, "Separate and combined effects of exercise training and weight loss on exercise efficiency and substrate oxidation," appears in ...

Substance found in fruits and vegetables reduces likelihood of the flu

... Society. The study also found that stressful exercise increased the susceptibility of mice to the flu, ... Earlier mouse studies have found that stressful exercise can increase susceptibility to upper respiratory ... mice may be more susceptible to the flu when they exercise to fatigue. The researchers in the current study ...

Antidepressants need new nerve cells to be effective, UT Southwestern researchers find

... the brain must create new nerve cells for either exercise or antidepressants to reduce depression-like ... the researchers found that antidepressants and exercise use the same biochemical pathway to exert their ... revealed that neither the antidepressants nor the exercise had helped them, and the animals also had not ...

Exercise could be the heart's fountain of youth

... may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger. According to a study ... in St. Louis, older people who did endurance exercise training for about a year ended up with ... Division. "Past research has suggested that exercise can reverse some effects of aging, and we wanted ...