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It has generally been accepted that people wanting to lose weight need to do more exercise than someone who isn't focused on their weight.
However a recent study has shown that for anyone wanting to lose weight, you may not need to "exercise" more.
The study found that people who exercised for just half an hour a day lost a third more weight than those who did an hour long work out.
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I wrote recently about how exercise is useful to help you help you sleep better, but that it takes time to be effective. One session is not going to miraculously send you off into a deep slumber.
For a long time, the common belief has been that exercising late in the day or evening will keep you awake. Some people have no doubt used this as an excuse not to exercise.
A recent report dispels that...
The older you get, the more important strength training and maintaining muscle mass is.
New research from UCLA suggests that the more muscle mass older people have, the less likely they are to die prematurely. These findings add to the growing evidence that overall body composition is a better predictor of all-cause mortality than using Body Mass Index (BMI).
The study, published in the American...
Exercise is a common prescription for insomnia.
But if you have trouble sleeping, spending 45 minutes exercising one day won't translate into better sleep that night, according to research done at Northwestern University in the US.
This is the first long-term study to show aerobic exercise during the day does not result in improved sleep that same night when people have existing sleep problems. ...
The more scientists investigate the effects of exercise, the more reasons they find for why we all need to be as fit as possible.
A recent study has found that it protects our eyesight.
In a recent study, reported in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers reported that moderate aerobic exercise helps to preserve the structure and function of nerve cells in the retina after damage.
The finding...
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