Research from around the world showed how much children’s activity levels dropped during lockdowns.
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Preparing for being active in cold weather can help keep us safe and increase our enjoyment.
The new year is a perfect time to adopt new health habits and routines. These four scholars reflect on the ways that they overcame the pandemic blues to get fit.
Although ‘training to failure’ may be popular among people who regularly lift weights, it might not be as beneficial as some claim.
Exercise can’t make up for a poor diet, but it can help change eating habits. Regular exercise improves the brain and cognitive processes that help regulate junk food consumption and reduces stress.
Over half of people who intend to make healthy lifestyle changes fail to do so. Understanding the automatic tendencies that prevent people from enacting a new health habit can help them stick to it.
Weightlifting can be done by people of all ages and fitness levels.
On Christmas day alone, it’s estimated that people consume around 6,000 calories.
A growing body of research points to the body’s natural cannabinoid system as the primary driver behind the runner’s high – and the mental health boost and stress relief following exercise.
Rates of obesity and eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia both surged among young people over the past two years. Scholars explain why, and how parents can support kids dealing with body shame.
People who were more active had lower levels of inflammation in their brain.
Despite some claims, ‘overtraining’ is likely the last reason you’re struggling to lose weight.
To get more workers to be active, public health messaging must recognize the important role employers can play in creating the conditions for workers to focus on exercise.
The present healthcare structure in Nigeria contributes to the suffering of people living with diabetes in the country.
Some people do inherit traits which promote dance ability - but with hard work almost anyone can learn to dance well due to the plasticity of the brain
Our analysis showed 13 genes that were directly responsible for influencing how certain people adapted to different types of exercise.
A study of over 1,000 children in rural Oklahoma found that social and emotional health may be just as important as diet and exercise in reducing child obesity.
Life-extension therapies may be coming sooner than you think.
If the pandemic made your back feel more sore than usual, moving more everyday may be important to help improve it.
Exercise – alongside standard treatments – may help improve strength and flexibility, and other symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
Top contributors
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Head of Division of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Simon Rosenbaum is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate professor & Scientia Fellow, UNSW
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Professorial Research Fellow: Physical Activity and Health, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor: Cardiorespiratory Exercise Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Assistant Professor, Physiotherapy, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Westminster
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Professor and Laboratory Head of Physical Activity, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Professor, School of Allied Health Sciences, Griffith University
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Professor of Clinical Exercise Science College of Sport & Exercise Science and Deputy Director Research Training Institute for Health and Sport (IHES), Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Macquarie University
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Course coordinator for postgraduate level Certificate in Ergonomics, Rhodes University
