Can healthy habits protect your cognition as you age, even if you have clinical signs of Alzheimer’s or other types of dementia? A new study said yes.
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Physical and Mental Health - Exercise, Fitness and Activity
Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Can healthy habits protect your cognition as you age, even if you have clinical signs of Alzheimer’s or other types of dementia? A new study said yes.
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True causes of illnesses such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes are complex and researchers are still trying to untangle them. They are not the result of personal failure.
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Over-60s who combined more healthy lifestyle choices enjoyed most benefit, found Beijing researchers
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Changing your eating, exercising, socialising and engagement with nature can help treat depression. Now mental health professionals have some guidelines to shape treatment around lifestyle therapies.
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When it comes to our personal health, the cards are stacked against us in Australia. At almost every point throughout our day, things make it harder for us to be healthy — but all is not lost, writes Dr Sandro Demaio.
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Our research shows most women aren’t meeting lifestyle recommendations that can help prevent cancer recurrence.
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People with a healthy lifestyle lived with Alzheimer’s for a smaller proportion of their remaining years, the study also found.
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Heart health is strongly linked to brain health and risk of dementia. That means improving one can protect us from the other.
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Intensive lifestyle changes that address diet, exercise, and emotional health can yield big health benefits. It’s not always easy, but it can be done.
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This time of year a common question that comes up is, "What can I do to improve my health?" It can seem daunting to figure out where to start! Fortunately, the American Heart Association (AHA) created a simple map, "Life's Simple 7", to guide us on a healthy lifestyle. The 7 components we can tackle are:
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Researchers worked out not just how much longer people can live when they have healthy habits, but also how healthy — and disease-free — those years might be
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One in three elderly Australians have a fall each year but video games are now being used to help patients recover more quickly and reduce their risk of future injuries.
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Dieting must die, says one of the world's most influential health experts, Dr David Katz. - New Zealand Herald
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To fight rising medical costs, oil company BP last year offered Cory Slagle - a 118-kilogram former football lineman - an unusual way to trim $1250 from his annual insurance bill.
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Landmark research ranks the seven lifestyle factors increasing the risk of Alzheimer's disease
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Do you work non-stop? Are you bereft of proper sleep, meals and exercise? It's time to do something about it.
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The film claims fast-food chains and the makers of processed foods have added more sugar to "low fat" foods to make them more palatable. It says big business is poisoning us with food marketed under the guise of health benefits. Early-onset diabetes, a condition associated with exposure to cane sugar and corn syrup, was virtually unknown a few years ago. If current rates continue, one in three Americans will have diabetes by 2050.
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Depression isn't all in the mind - it can cause changes in the body that raise the risk of heart disease
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Did you see the Big Fat Debate last night on Third Degree? It was a showcase of where some academic minds are at in deducing the effects of saturated fat on our health. What a confusing - New Zealand Herald
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Researchers Professor Nattavudh Powdthavee and Dr Jinhu Li analysed what affect an additional 12 months schooling had on a person's diet, exercise and health habits.
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The week after New Year is a testing time for resolutions to correct a bad habit.
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In a unique natural experiment, researchers have observed how a nation that lost an average of 5kg per head over five years contributed to a halving of the death rate from diabetes
A l'heure ù le soleil et les régimes reviennent, les Cubains ont leur propre diète ;(
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Early life crisis ... 28 can be a tough year, not just for astrological reasons.
According to About.com, Saturn Return might have a part to play in the peak in divorces in the US at around the age of 30, as couples reassess their relationships in light of changing personal priorities. Stefanie Iris Weiss and Sherene Schostak, aka 'Saturn Sisters' and authors of Surviving Saturn's Return: Overcoming the Most Tumultuous Time of Your Life suggest that women look at their father issues during their Saturn Return because "Saturn symbolizes the father (personally and universally), and can set us up with very particular responses to the men in our lives, as we attempt to fix whatever was broken in our relationship with our dads or dad-like figures."
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Stepping off the career treadmill and embracing a life less harried need not be as hard as some fear.