Exercise is physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive for the purpose of conditioning any part of the body.
Exercise is used to improve health, maintain fitness and is important as a means of physical rehabilitation.
Recent studies have shown that doing simple exercises like gardening, walking, or playing golf can help lower depression rates. This was discovered by researchers at Anglia Ruskin University, who reviewed many studies from around the world.
Their findings, published in the Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews journal, show that regular physical activity can decrease the chances of depression by 23% and anxiety by 26%.
The pursuit of an enviable physique, bolstered by rippling muscles, is a goal as old as the human civilization itself. Whether it’s the Herculean strongmen of ancient Greece, the ironclad knights of the medieval era, or the health-conscious individual of the 21st century, muscle gain remains an unflagging objective. The quintessential elements of this pursuit often distill down to two crucial aspects: protein consumption and supplements.
Activity trackers and mobile phone apps are all the rage, but do they really help users increase and maintain physical activity? A new study has
Obesity is known to increase the risk of heart failure, but new results indicate that physical activity can reduce the risk. Atrial fibrillation is an
The Secret to Fewer Doctor Office Visits after 70 – Play High School Sports – Seventy year olds who don’t frequently visit the doctor have something unexpected in common – most played high school sports. They were active on a team over 50 years ago and are more likely to be active into their late 70s.
Scientists identify protein linking exercise to brain health – A protein that is increased by endurance exercise has been isolated and given to non-exercising mice, in which it turned on genes that promote brain health and encourage the growth of new nerves involved in learning and memory.
Exercise improves memory, thinking after stroke, study finds – Just six months of exercise can improve memory, language, thinking and judgment problems by almost 50 per cent. Toronto researchers found that the proportion of stroke patients with at least mild cognitive impairment dropped from 66 per cent to 37 per cent during a research study on the impact of exercise on the brain.
Exercise boosts mental and physical health of heart failure patients — Exercise results in modest reduction in depressive symptoms for patients with chronic heart failure – Moderate exercise helps ease depression in patients with chronic heart failure, and is also associated with a small but significant reduction in deaths and hospitalizations.
Exercise helps us to eat a healthy diet – A healthy diet and the right amount of exercise are key players in treating and preventing obesity but we still know little about the relationship both factors have with each other. A new study now reveals that an increase in physical activity is linked to an improvement in diet quality.
Physical fitness curbs frequency and severity of colds — Upper respiratory tract infection is reduced in physically fit and active adults – People who are physically fit and active have fewer and milder colds, indicates research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
