For good health and longevity, the right mindset – and less stress – may be more important than exercise.
Modern citizenship in the West increasingly involves a duty to care for ourselves — to eat healthily, exercise enough and even screen ourselves for disease — to minimize our health-care costs to the state.
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Are your new diet, exercise, meditation and self-care resolutions for 2020 really a personal choice? Or are you a model western “biocitizen,” living a life of unfreedom?
Do not be derailed by news reports that exercise is bad for the heart. Taking more exercise is a New Year’s resolution to stick to. Exercise reduces risks of depression, cancers, heart disease, stroke and sudden death.
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A man who is overweight walking alone in a park. Walking with a doctor could be helpful for overweight patients.
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Health care providers often recommend exercise to overweight people as a way to lose weight, but that often does not work. Injuries can occur, and frustration can mount. Can walking with them work?
You can be in a healthy weight range according to BMI but overweight according to waist circumference.
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Living near lots of fast-food outlets doesn’t automatically encourage weight gain in your neighbourhood, but coupled with a lack of exercise facilities, it just might.
Women shouldn’t be disheartened by the latest finding that exercise doesn’t lead to weight loss in the first month or two. There are other reasons to persist.
Here are some of the more popular sports supplements on the market today, separated into categories based on how effective and safe research shows they are.
You don’t need to hit the gym to reduce your chance of early death.
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Dropping old, bad habits is hard, but starting new, good ones may not be so difficult. Or so a recent study suggests. Read how a simple sign at an airport made a difference.
We all have to die of something, so why can’t I die by delicious donuts?
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Sure, you have to die of something, but you may not have to die so soon - and you could be healthier, wealthier and happier in the meantime.
If you start running the same distance every day you’ll increase your base level of fitness, but you’ll plateau after a while.
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