Exercise

A lot of people don’t exercise because they think they have to spend a lot of time doing it every week, and that does not appeal to them. Let’s see what research has found. Several years ago research was conducted on what was called high intensity short interval training. Since...

A Canadian study supports this where the researchers concluded that physical inactivity and a high waist circumference have a significant independent risk of premature mortality among women (Katzmarzyk PT, Craig CL, 2006). The participants of this study were all women, but other research has shown that this also works for...

Exercise has been documented to have a profound effect on the body in many ways. One of the things exercise can alter is certain hormones. In the reviewed research, the investigators evaluated the hormone adiponectin in response to 2 different training programs (Shing CM, et al. 2013). Body composition, power...

Exercise is a necessity if you want to stay healthy, but how effective is it for losing weight if that is the only thing you change, and for how long do you have to exercise? The reviewed research was an attempt to clarify that, and you may find the results...

The research reviewed here investigated the effect of 2 types of exercises involving participants with the metabolic syndrome (Stensvold D, et al. 2012). The metabolic syndrome is associated with chronic low grade inflammation. Several inflammatory cytokines were measured including interleukin-18 (IL-18) which seems to be the best marker of inflammation...

Losing our eye sight is not an attractive option, but there are a lot of things you can do to increase your odds of seeing well as you get older. Researchers who conducted the study reviewed here examined the risk for developing age related macular degeneration in women aged 55...

In the last few years quite a few studies have been published on the benefits of high intensity short interval training. The research reviewed here investigated the effects of very high intensity sprint interval training on metabolic and vascular risk factors in overweight/obese sedentary men (Whyte LJ, et al. 2010)....