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Lifestyle may link depression and heart disease

sea-maid submitted, created time 3 days 12 hours (www.sciencenews.org)

The long-standing connection between depression and heart problems might be traceable to the fact that depressed people are less physically active than others, a new study of heart patients shows. A greater tendency in depressed people to smoke and to fail to take medications regularly may also play a role, researchers report in the Nov. 26 Journal of the American Medical Association

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Exercise Guidelines: Less Gym, More Fun

jerry submitted, created time 1 month 3 weeks (www.webmd.com)

New federal guidelines are more of the same. This article recommends at least 2.5 hours per week of moderate exercise or 1.25 hours per week of intense exercise for adults and gives examples. However, the newer note is that people, especially children, will be more likely to stick with the plan if the activity in question si fun.

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Combined impact of lifestyle factors on mortality: prospective cohort study in U.S. women

sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.bmj.com)

Objective: To evaluate the impact of combinations of lifestyle factors on mortality in middle aged women.
Design Prospective: cohort study.

Setting: Nurses’ health study, United States.

Participants: 77,782 women aged thirty-four to fifty-nine years and free from cardiovascular disease and cancer in 1980

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First-ever trial proves exercise helps memory

sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 4 weeks (esciencenews.com)

West Australian health experts are urging older people to get active after proving for the first time that just twenty minutes of activity each day can prevent memory deterioration. In a world-first, a team from the WA Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) based at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) has shown that regular physical activity can lead to a lasting improvement in memory function.

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Drugs turn "couch potato" mice into long-distance runners

sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)

In a study published today in the journal Cell, scientists say they have found the first targeted drugs that boost endurance. They are already working with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to develop tests to expose would-be cheats who use the drugs.

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Healthy lifestyle turns off genes that cause cancer

sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.newscientist.com)

It's no secret that a healthy lifestyle can slow the progression of cancer, but how this happens has been a mystery. Now new evidence suggests an answer: dieting and exercise may turn crucial genes on and off.

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Time in the Sun: How Much Is Needed for Vitamin D?

lily1984 submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (health.usnews.com)

Coinciding with the first week of summer, a study published today underscores the importance of getting adequate amounts of sunlight for its vitamin D-boosting benefits. The research, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, shows that those with the lowest vitamin D levels have more than double the risk of dying from heart disease and other causes over an eight-year period compared with those with the highest vitamin D levels. The researchers cite "decreased outdoor activity" as one reason that people may become deficient in vitamin D

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The Couch Isn't Making You Fat

jerry submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

An analysis of 20 years of published data on people's daily energy expenditure indicates that overeating, rather than a sedentary existence, is the major cause of the industrial world's obesity epidemic...

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Lifestyle Changes Can Keep Diabetes at Bay for 14 Years

jerry submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (www.washingtonpost.com)

Diet and exercise programs for people at high risk for developing diabetes, when followed for six years, can actually delay the development of diabetes for fourteen years after the programs' end...

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VGF, a New Player in Antidepressant Action?

jerry submitted, created time 6 months 2 weeks (stke.sciencemag.org)

This study links VGF to the antidepressant-like behavioral effects produced by antidepressant drugs and exercise.

VGF (not an acronym), a neuropeptide that has previously been shown to be involved in maintaining organismal energy balance, as well as in mediating hippocampal synaptic plasticity, may be involved in mediating antidepressant responses.

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Runner's high proved non-mythical via PET scan

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 4 days (www.nytimes.com)

Sit up, couch potatoes: the runner's high is real. Proving the yea or nea of the marathoner's mescalin has been difficult because, as one researcher put it, it's not such a good idea to give someone a spinal tap and then send 'em right off to run a 10K. Recently, someone came up with the bright idea of using PET scans (they copied off the dudes doing pain research).

This article is interesting more for the way in which the researchers applied existing technology to solve a problem than for the subject they're studying

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Live slow die young

jane2007 submitted, created time 10 months 2 days (www.nature.com)

Active people could be up to 10 years "younger" than couch potatoes, at least according to one measure of biological age.

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Mild Exercise May Counter Dementia

jane2007 submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (www.time.com)

Moderate physical activity — even an unhurried 30-minute stroll a day — may diminish the risk for vascular dementia among the elderly, according to a new study published this week in the online journal Neurology.

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New clue into how diet and exercise enhance longevity

sumsung submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.eurekalert.org)

The traditional prescriptions for a healthy life-sensible diet, exercise and weight control -- extend life by reducing signaling through a specific pathway in the brain, according to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers, who discovered the connection while studying long-lived mice.

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Reducing insulin signaling in the brain can prolong lifespan

sumsung submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.childrenshospital.org)

A study from Children's Hospital Boston finds that reducing insulin levels in the brain boosts longevity. Though it was done in genetically engineered mice, old-fashioned exercise and good diets also keep brain insulin levels low in humans.

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