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Category: Fitness

Doctors, Healthcare Providers, Weight Loss

‘Almost Like Malpractice’: To Shed Bias, Doctors Get Schooled to Look Beyond Obesity

May 24, 2022

Research has long shown that doctors are less likely to respect patients who are overweight or obese, even as nearly three-quarters of adults in the U.S. now fall into one of those categories.

Fitness, Technology

A boom in fitness trackers isn’t leading to a boom in physical activity

May 4, 2022

Since the mid-1990s, people have been doing less and less walking or bicycling to work and school and spending a lot more time staring at screens.

Fitness, Weight Loss

Using BMI to measure your health is nonsense. Here’s why

May 2, 2022

While BMI is an accessible and affordable way to screen a person’s health, but waist circumference is a better predictor of health.

Diet, Fitness, Nutrition, Weight Loss

Restricting calories leads to weight loss, not necessarily the window of time you eat them in

April 28, 2022

A new confirms there is no one best diet for weight loss. It also shows small decreases in the window of time you’re eating probably won’t make a difference to weight loss.

Coronavirus, COVID, Fitness

Regaining fitness after COVID infection can be hard

April 26, 2022

Here are 5 things to keep in mind before you start exercising again

Fitness, Mental Health, Prevention

How do I improve my motivation to exercise when I really hate it? 10 science-backed tips

April 14, 2022

Why do some of us hate exercise? And how can we overcome this to reap the lifesaving benefits of getting the body moving?

Aging, Fitness

Why is it harder to build muscle as you age?

February 4, 2022

50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to – the biology of how muscles change with age

Fitness

Got health goals? Research-based tips adopting healthy lifestyle behaviours

January 4, 2022

Health goals are among the most popular New Year’s resolutions, but failing to stick to them is so common that it has become a cliché.

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Fitness, Nutrition, Weight Loss

You can’t outrun your fork. But that doesn’t mean exercise can’t help you lose weight or change your diet.

January 3, 2022

Humans are very good at conserving energy and will account for any calories burned through exercise by consuming more calories later in the day or by being less physically active throughout the rest of the day.

Addiction, Alcohol, Weight Loss

Thinking about a Dry January? Tips from a UW doc

December 30, 2021

As New Year’s Day approaches, health-based resolutions are hardly novel. The trend of “Dry January” has gained momentum during the pandemic, with 15% of U.S. adults attempting temporary alcohol abstinence last year.

Diet, Nutrition, Weight Loss

Step away from the table – why you keep eating when you’re full

December 23, 2021

Let’s explore your body’s “stop eating signals” (satiety signals).

Fitness, Nutrition, Weight Loss

It could take 12 hours of walking to burn off your Christmas dinner

December 22, 2021

Or, if you prefer, you could jog for about five to six hours.

Fitness, Marijuana

The ‘runner’s high’ may result from the body’s own version of THC

December 20, 2021

Studies in humans and in animal models are pointing to endocannabinoids – not endorphins – as the star players in the runner’s high.

Diabetes, Fitness

COVID saw us sitting longer – and diabetes rose globally by 16% in 2 years. Time to get moving

December 8, 2021

Reducing sitting time is a good starting place to help people with diabetes, pre-diabetes and other chronic conditions to reach healthier levels of physical activity.

Fitness, Weight Loss

Less pain, more gain – improving health and fitness with minimal exercise

September 7, 2021

We found that doing fewer high intensity sprints in a training session may actually enhance changes in cardiovascular fitness — The lowest number of sprints that our study showed to be effective? Just two.

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