Doing moderate and vigorous exercise — even if for less than 10 minutes — appeared to be associated with much higher cognition scores than people who were more sedentary.... Read More
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Eliminating Visceral Fat
A simpler approach to evaluating your visceral fat (and its associated health risks) recognizes that approximately 10 percent of all body fat is visceral. If you calculate your total body fat and take 10 percent of it, you can get a rough estimate of your visceral fat amount.... Read More
Drop Your Blood Pressure
Are you a heavy consumer of alcohol? If the answer is yes, cutting back to moderate drinking levels can lower your systolic (top number) blood pressure by about 5.5 mm Hg and diastolic (lower number) by approximately 4 mm Hg.... Read More
Reversing Muscle Aging
Today, we explore how physical activity may reverse the aging clock in muscle fibers by promoting the “epigenetic reprogramming” of chromosomes.... Read More
Gut Health and Exercise Motivation
The microbiome is the microorganism community (including fungi, bacteria, and viruses) in an environment. In humans, “microbiome” is often used to describe the microorganisms living in or on a particular body part, such as the skin or gastrointestinal tract.... Read More
Drop Inflammation
Move, and you will help transfer sugar into muscles for storage. This improvement increases insulin sensitivity for two to 48 hours, depending on the exercise type. A Washington University (USA) study discovered that one hour of moderate biking on a machine raised insulin sensitivity for 48 hours.... Read More