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Web Link 20111104 - USA Today - Prolonged sitting linked to breast cancer, colon cancer
Experts have known for years that physical activity decreases the risk of chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes, Friedenreich says, but the new data give estimates on the number of cases that might be prevented if people were more physically active. |
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Web Link 20111005 - USAToday - Vigorous exercise boosts vitamin D while lowering heart risk
People who do vigorous physical activity — such as running, jogging, playing basketball or soccer [or dance] — for three or more hours a week reduce their risk of a heart attack by 22%, the study found. Among the reasons: They have higher levels of good cholesterol and vitamin D as well as better levels of other factors involved in heart disease. |
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Web Link 20110624 - CNN - Sitting for hours can shave years off life
Sitting too much will probably shorten your life. Women who sit for more than six hours a day were about 40% more likely to die during the course of the study than those who sat fewer than three hours per day. Men were about 20% more likely to die. |
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Web Link 20110802 - Huffington Post - Best And Worst Ways To Hydrate Your Summer Workout
Dehydration is a major culprit of these ER visits, and it's also easily preventable.
We spoke to top nutritionists to find out the best and worst ways to hydrate if you're planning on outdoor exercise. Of course, the number one choice is plain water -- our experts recommend aiming for 20 ounces two hours before a workout --but if you're looking to mix things up a bit, here are some good options, along with some ones to avoid. |
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Web Link 20110520 - Smithsonian.com - Top Ten Myths About the Brain
When it comes to this complex, mysterious, fascinating organ, what do—and don’t—we know?
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Web Link 20110425 - NPR - Sitting All Day: Worse For You Than You Might Think
"Those who were sitting more were substantially more likely to die," Blair says.
Many of us, he points out, have sedentary jobs and engage in sedentary activities after work, like watching television or sitting around a dinner table talking. When you add it all up, Blair says, "it's a lot more sitting than moving." |
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Web Link 20110414 - NYTimes - Is Sitting a Lethal Activity
Being sedentary for nine hours a day at the office is bad for your health whether you go home and watch television afterward or hit the gym. It is bad whether you are morbidly obese or marathon-runner thin. “Excessive sitting,” Dr. Levine says, “is a lethal activity.”
[Perhaps you should add more dancing to your after work activities...or perhaps anything other than sitting (but dancing is more fun).] |
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Web Link 2011-02-28 - NYTimes - For Tendon Pain, Think Beyond the Needle
Working the joint in a way that doesn’t aggravate the injury but strengthens supporting tissues and stimulates blood flow to the painful area may promote healing faster than “a tincture of time.”
And researchers (supported by [the author's] experience with an injured tendon, as well as that of a friend) suggest that some counter intuitive remedies may work just as well or better. |
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Web Link 20110218 - NatGeo - To Stave Off Alzheimer's, Learn a Language?
Talk about the power of words—speaking at least two languages [perhaps even dance] may slow dementia in the aging brain, new research shows.
Scientists already knew that bilingual young adults and children perform better on tasks dictated by the brain's executive control system. Now studies are revealing that advantages of bilingualism persist into old age, even as the brain's sharpness naturally declines. |
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Web Link 20110209 - NYTimes - Phys Ed: Does Loneliness Reduce the Benefits of Exercise?
Exercise isn't enough...you must be social too.
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Web Link 20110117 - NYTimes - Close Look at Orthotics Raises a Welter of Doubts
For more than 30 years Dr. Nigg, a professor of biomechanics and co-director of the Human Performance Lab at the University of Calgary in Alberta, has asked how orthotics affect motion, stress on joints and muscle activity. |
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Web Link 20081223 - PNAS - Newborn infants detect the beat in music
To shed light on how humans can learn to understand music, we need to discover what the perceptual capabilities with which infants are born. Beat induction, the detection of a regular pulse in an auditory signal, is considered a fundamental human trait that, arguably, played a decisive role in the origin of music. Theorists are divided on the issue whether this ability is innate or learned. We show that newborn infants develop expectation for the onset of rhythmic cycles (the downbeat), even when it is not marked by stress or other distinguishing spectral features. Omitting the downbeat elicits brain activity associated with violating sensory expectations. Thus, our results strongly support the view that beat perception is innate. |
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Web Link 20101231 - NYTimes - This Year, Change Your Mind
Whether it is by learning a new language, [dancing], traveling to a new place, developing a passion for beekeeping or simply thinking about an old problem in a new way, all of us can find ways to stimulate our brains to grow, in the coming year and those to follow. Just as physical activity is essential to maintaining a healthy body, challenging one’s brain, keeping it active, engaged, flexible and playful, is not only fun. It is essential to cognitive fitness. |
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Web Link 20101231 - Self.com - Cure Any Hangover
We've all been known to get a little too, er, festive this time of year. TV superdoc Mehmet Oz, M.D., will help you wake up sans regrets. |
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Web Link 20101208 - Reuters - Music may soothe stress in critically ill patients
Listening to music appears to have a calming effect on hospital patients. While the reason music works is still unclear, Bradt said in an e-mail to Reuters Health, it might provide a distraction, or somehow communicate with the brain regions responsible for emotional regulation. |
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Web Link 20101116 - When the Mind Wanders, Happiness Also Strays
Daydreaming is not likely to make you as happy as focusing intensely. It could be an additional reason why people who take dance class (focusing on steps, music and partnership) are happier (while they're dancing). |
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Web Link 20101115 - Dancing's Kyle Massey Loses 8 Inches Off His Waistline
The closer he gets to the Dancing with the Stars finale, the more Kyle Massey likes the slimmer physique he sees in the dance-studio mirror. |
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Web Link 20100701 - Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love
As Zak and others deepen their study of oxytocin, we may better understand why people with friends live longer and get sick less, and why we are compelled to be social animals online and off. If these changes apply in the world of social media, the implications for business |
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Web Link 20101006 - Rolfing, Excruciatingly Helpful
Dr. Rolf developed a theory that the body’s aches and pains arose from basic imbalances in posture and alignment, which were created and reinforced over time by gravity and learned responses among muscles and fascia — the sheath-like connective tissue that surrounds and binds muscles together. Rolfing developed as a way to “restructure” muscles and fascia.
The focus on manipulating fascia is part of what distinguishes it from chiropractics, which deals with bones, and from therapeutic massages, which works on muscles.
That also explains why Rolfing has a reputation for being aggressive, even painful at times. Fascia is stubborn material, particularly if it is marked by knots and scar tissue. |
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Web Link 20100830 - Making Soldiers Fit to Fight, Without the Situps
The new fitness regime... incorporates more stretching, more exercises for the abdomen and lower back, instead of the traditional situps, and more agility and balance training. [sounds like dance drills to me]
There are fewer situps,... which Army officials say are good for building strength and endurance but often lead to injuries.
Some of the new routines would look familiar to a devotee of pilates, yoga |
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Web Link 20100927 - NYTimes - Gargling With Salt Water Can Ease Cold Symptoms
A sore, itchy throat and respiratory congestion are some of the more common symptoms of a cold, and gargling with salt water seems to help for several reasons. |
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Web Link Where and What is the Iliopsoas
It's not because you're lazy for not picking up your feet/legs - it's that you're weak.
The main purpose of the Iliopsoas complex is to flex the hip joint or lift the thigh bone up towards the pelvis/trunk. With enough strengthening and flexibility, it is strong enough to lift the leg higher than the waist or greater than 90 degrees. |
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Web Link 20030619 - NE Journal of Medicine - Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly
New England Journal of Medicine - Among leisure activities, reading, playing board games, playing musical instruments, and dancing were associated with a reduced risk of dementia. |
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Web Link Use It or Lose It: Dancing Makes You Smarter
Frequent dancing apparently makes us smarter. A major study added to the growing evidence that stimulating one's mind can ward off Alzheimer's disease and other dementia, much as physical exercise can keep the body fit. |
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Web Link 2010 - Shape - 10 Easy Ways to Boost Your Immunity
Regular, moderate exercise can boost several aspects of your body's self-defense system. "Physical activity not only strengthens your cardiovascular system," Berk says, "it improves your mood and reduces stress." (see tip #8) |
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Web Link 20111010 - Huffington Post - Four Reasons Why America Is Still Getting Fatter And Sicker, And What to Do About It
What many of us don't realize is that poor lifestyle habits are causing the cells, tissues, and organs in our bodies to "rust," or age before their time, as many of us walk around in a state of constant inflammation. |
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