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Although it’s been a little over 40 years since Joseph Hubertus Pilates, the creator of the exercises with the same name, passed away, fitness enthusiasts and those just looking to unwind and lead a healthier life continue to show the same interest, if not even a greater one, in Pilates. Starting from the premi... |
9 September 2008
12:11 GMT |
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Sounds too good to be true? Not quite. Researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have recently identified two signaling pathways that can be activated through drugs in order to increase endurance. Both pathways are naturally activated through exercise, but the effects of a workout session can be mimi... |
1 August 2008
09:41 GMT |
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When it comes to using up excess calories, the rule is extremely simple: the more you exercise, the more calories you burn. However, there are a few things about calorie burning that most of us don't know - things that are bound to help us get a better understanding of the amount of effort we need to undertake i... |
23 June 2008
11:42 GMT |
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Summer is here, which - in terms of body image and weight loss - means that many of us will be looking for faster, more effective ways to lose weight without spending grueling hours doing sit-ups and stomach crunches in the gym. And even if we are willing to invest a lot of time and energy into perfecting an exercise... |
23 June 2008
11:00 GMT |
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If you thought that living in an age where communication is the easiest thing in the world and a world of knowledge is at our fingertips at the touch of a few buttons was the best thing that could have happened to you - think again. It's true, a modern lifestyle means that our lives are about a million times eas... |
5 June 2008
04:11 GMT |
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As far as dieting goes, the French are probably one of the biggest lifestyle paradoxes around: they drink red wine regularly, have a high-fat diet and yet they have the lowest heart-attack rate in Europe and only 7% of the population is obese, compared to a staggering 23% in Britain, for example. The obvious question... |
2 June 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Diabetes is one of the most widespread diseases of the moment, a metabolism disorder that has grown to reflect some of the deepest vices of modern lifestyle. Type two diabetes, which accounts for the vast majority (about 90%) of all diabetes cases, is closely linked with obesity and physical inactivity. At the moment... |
24 May 2008
05:55 GMT |
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Remember when you were young and there were days when you just felt you wanted to lie in bed all day and watch TV or just play with your favorite dolls in the privacy of your own little room - and then your parents came and told you to go outside and play? Well, it seems that their advice might have been more than ju... |
14 May 2008
08:59 GMT |
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Britney Spears has been in the news almost every day for the past year or so, ever since her previously picture-perfect life has taken a downward spiral and became the sometimes annoying, otherwise mildly entertaining circus we all know it to be. From a bitter divorce and a still-raging custody battle to a substance ... |
26 April 2008
03:13 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii has always put emphasis on different and sometimes quirky gameplay over the classic game recipes. The control scheme of the Wii rewards those developers who create games that do not follow already existing patterns. And who's better prepared to take advantage of this than the Wii's creators... |
2 April 2008
06:48 GMT |
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I always heard people saying that you can't have too much of a good thing and that excesses are bad - you know, those boring cliches that we so easily dismiss and imagine that there's absolutely no degree of novelty or relevance in them. Well, we may be right most of the times, but nevertheless - sometimes,... |
5 March 2008
06:33 GMT |
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A physically active job may lead to more than a better condition: it may lower the risk of developing prostate cancer, as found by a research carried out by a team at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and published in the journal "Cancer Causes Control." The study was made on 2,100 men, ex-employees at the Rocketdyne... |
12 February 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Want a brake from your training program? Think twice! It could cost you more than you thought, as found by a new research from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and published in the journal "Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise." Weight gained during a rest period can be ... |
5 February 2008
03:46 GMT |
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The remote control saves you from wasting too much energy changing the channels. The only problem is that now and then you have to go to the bathroom.... Damn it! But don't worry: you will be saved of too much effort, as you will live 10 years less because of this couch potato lifestyle. This is the result of a ... |
30 January 2008
02:57 GMT |
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In other times, people had to hunt animals and gather plant food for a living. At the same time, they had to avoid predators, while sheltering in caves or miserable huts. Our bodies had to be fit and strong in order to survive. But in the last millennium, and especially last centuries, technology reversed this. Our c... |
9 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Being a saint won't help you much. A little alcohol added to an active lifestyle may prolong your life. A new Danish research published in the "European Heart Journal" points that a little alcohol can lower your risk of heart disease. The study enrolled about 12,000 men and women, who have been followed up for a... |
9 January 2008
05:07 GMT |
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Living like Brad Pitt will prolong your life by 14 years! Exercising, not drinking too much, eating your fruit and vegetables and not smoking can have this impact on you, as found by a research made by the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council of Norfolk (UK) between 1993 and 2006 and published in ... |
8 January 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Sports practicing even at an older age means more than good looks: it improves the general functioning of the body, from heart and brain to immunity. But a novel research at the University of Illinois and published in the American Journal of Physiology shows that exercise makes you look younger also due to a healthie... |
29 November 2007
05:30 GMT |
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Sports may prolong life, since we all know "a healthy mind stays in a healthy body". But sometimes, sports can also affect our mind. An unusual consequence is represented by the incredibly high number of people obsessed by physical exercise. Specialists believe that men exercise in excess probably to regain the lost ... |
3 November 2007
06:16 GMT |
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It seems that nice boobs and a nice body don't go hand in hand. The way to sagged breasts seems to pass through fitness rooms and jogging sessions, if women do not wear suitable bras. By exercising without a proper bra, millions of women 'damage' their breasts.A Portsmouth University found that while p... |
27 September 2007
14:21 GMT |
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Remember the clip of Beavis flying into a wall while playing with a treadmill? I do. That was stupid of course. But, hey, treadmill exercising sucks (yea, yea HeHeh)! No wonder smart guys easily get bored, forget to "pedal" and end up as wallpapers. Here's a different approach to treadmills: the Home Swimmer sys... |
30 April 2007
00:53 GMT |
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Diet and exercise are the key to a fit body. But their impact is quite different in boys and girls. A new British research found that exercise acts differently on body fat for boys and girls. The researchers found that recommendations on exercise to decrease the up-going tendency of obesity in children have tackled w... |
29 March 2007
02:59 GMT |
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