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People are often disappointed when exercise doesn’t translate into weight loss. Here are four reasons it might not be happening for you (yet).
Trust Me, I’m An Expert: how Syrian refugees are using exercise to improve mental health
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Last year, two researchers flew to Gaziantep in southern Turkey, where about one in four people are Syrian refugees, to explore how exercise might help improve mental health.
Children’s muscles recover rapidly from high-intensity exercise, and kids can produce repeated exercise efforts when most of us adults continue to feel exhausted.
How can exercise, meditation and hypnosis change our brains and potentially prevent disease?
Our body burns more fat when we exercise before breakfast, but studies haven’t found that means we lose more weight over time.
Four out of five experts say walking is enough exercise.
It’s not just elite sportspeople who get muscle cramps. If you’ve ever experienced one, you’ll know how painful they are. But why do we get them, and is there anything to be done?
Running (or walking) with others is good for health and social connections. But you don’t have to aim for marathons.
The human spine can withstand heavy lifting, according to the latest research.
Although we can’t change our age or genetic profile, there are fortunately several lifestyle changes we can make that will reduce our dementia risk.
Middle-aged and elderly people taking up exercise shouldn’t be put off by joint pain. It will pass.
Research shows that exercise offers promise – as an alternative to prescription opioids – for relieving chronic pain.
We found that over 12 years, women who had an unhealthy weight and had yo-yoed didn’t gain more weight than women who had never yo-yoed.
Drinking coffee before exercising could make you run faster and lift heavier - if you’ve the right genes.
There are many benefits to walking - whether you do it in a group or on your own.
Here’s how athletes at the Winter Olympics are able to perform in extreme cold.
Tennis should be a more regularly accessible sport for more children. That’s where we find more Johanna Kontas, Heather Watsons and Andy Murrays.
Turns out taking antioxidant supplements after exercise doesn’t do much to help reduce muscle soreness after all.
Western societies are obsessed with body image – and it’s stopping self-improvement.
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, Cardiorespiratory Exercise Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Professor of Nutritional Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Integrative Physiology, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Westminster
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Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire
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Professorial Research Fellow: Physical Activity and Health, CQUniversity Australia
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Head of Division of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of East London
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Associate Professor in Neuromuscular Physiology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, Swansea University
