Category: Fitness
Taking a drug like Ozempic? What you need to know about risks of suicidal thoughts and contraception failure
Australian health authorities recommend that if you’re taking GLP-1 medicines, you should tell your doctor if you experience new or worsening depression, suicidal thoughts, or any unusual changes in mood or behaviour.
Making GLP-1 weight loss drugs cheaper isn’t enough to address America’s obesity problem – here’s why
Most patients with obesity and related health problems will likely need to use these medications indefinitely. According to emerging research, people who stop taking them typically regain the weight they lost. Realistically, very few people who take GLP-1 drugs can maintain their weight loss with lifestyle changes alone.
Five lifestyle changes that might help you live longer and slow down ageing
Society is fascinated with health, fitness and longevity. This obsession has spawned a multi-million pound industry centred around pushing the latest cutting-edge science, lifestyle modifications and products that claim to prevent ageing and live as long as possible.
But the secret to a long life doesn’t have to be so complicated. There are many simple things everyone can do to slow down time and feel younger.
Your body can be a portable gym: how to ditch membership fees and expensive equipment
From push-ups and squats to planks and chin-ups, bodyweight training has become one of the most popular ways to exercise because it can be done anywhere – and it’s free.
Prediabetes remission possible without dropping pounds, our new study finds
The answer lies in how fat is distributed throughout the body. Not all body fat behaves the same way.
‘Fat but fit’: what the latest study reveals
Rachel Woods, University of Lincoln Being slightly overweight might not shorten your life, but being very thin might. A large Danish study tracking more than 85,000 adults has found that people with a BMI below 18.5 were nearly three times…
SHIELD: A simple, memorable model to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
Up to one-third of Alzheimer’s disease cases could be prevented simply by avoiding certain risk factors.
People who move to more walkable cities walk more
New research led by the University of Washington provides clear evidence that highly walkable areas lead to significantly more walking.
Single-food ‘mono diets’: are they effective, pointless, or just plain dangerous?
With summer in full swing, many people will be tempted by supposedly miraculous dieting tricks to lose those excess kilos that prevent them from enjoying the perfect physique. Among them are so-called “mono diets”: restrictive regimes that consist of exclusively eating one type of food for a period of time, with the aim of quickly losing weight and “detoxing”.
Sweet spot for daily steps is lower than often thought, new study finds
Jack McNamara, University of East London Your fitness tracker might be lying to you. That 10,000-step target flashing on your wrist? It didn’t come from decades of careful research. It came from a Japanese walking club and a marketing campaign…
My shins hurt after running. Could it be shin splints?
If you’ve started running for the first time, started again after a break, or your workout is more intense, you might have felt it. A dull, nagging ache down your shins after you exercise. Should you push through? Or could it be the sign of something more serious?
Wearable fitness trackers can make you seven times more likely to stick to your workouts – new research
Using wearables (such as a smartwatch) not only makes people more likely to start working out, they’re also seven times more likely to still be active after six months compared to those who didn’t use a smartwatch.
How can I improve my running? 5 top tips for every runner, from a biomechanics expert
Anthony Blazevich, Edith Cowan University Humans and our ancestors have been running for millions of years. Back then, it helped us capture – or avoid becoming – prey. Now, we do it to keep fit, boost mental health, unwind in…
How 7,000 steps a day could help reduce your risk of cancer
A large study involving over 85,000 people in the UK found that the more steps you take each day, the lower your chances of developing up to 13 different types of cancer.
Biden wanted Medicaid to pay for weight-loss drugs. Trump just said it doesn’t have to.
While doctors and patient advocates say these drugs are critical to helping patients struggling with obesity and can save money in the long run by reducing comorbidities such as heart disease, others say the medications are just too expensive for most states to afford.