Archive for Exercise & activity Category


Diet affects older men's weight traini…

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health)-Getting enough protein and moderate amounts of fat from food may help older men's muscles respond better to weight training, a study suggests

To live longer, drink and exercise

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Drinking is healthy, exercise is healthy, and doing a little of both is even healthier, Danish researchers say

Personal Best: Putting Very Little Wei…

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Exercise physiologists say there is little in the world of exercise as wildly exaggerated as people’s estimates of the number of calories they burn. Despite the displays on machines at …

Vital Signs: Nutrition: An Up Side to …

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And no wonder. Average calorie consumption dropped more than a third, to 1, 863 calories a day in 2002 from 2, 899 in 1989. Cubans also exercised more, giving up …

Chocolate 'aids fatigue syndrome'

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A daily dose of dark chocolate may help reduce the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, say UK researchers. Patients in a pilot study found they had less fatigue when eating …