Overeating is all in your mind. Meet the researcher who is uncovering all the ways that “hidden persuaders” work to keep you eating beyond what you need.
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According to a new study, there is no direct link between parents’ own level of physical activity, and how much their child may exercise. In fact, parents’ perceptions of their children’s athleticism are what have a direct impact on the children’s activity.
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Antioxidants increasingly have been praised for their benefits against disease and aging, but recent studies show that they also can cause harm. Researchers have been studying how to improve oxygen delivery to the skeletal muscle during physical activity by using antioxidants. Their findings show that sometimes antioxidants can impair muscle function.
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A team of doctors from New York City recently traveled to Haiti to help provide care for those injured in the January 12th earthquake. What they saw there shocked them.
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So many doctors are answering Haiti’s call for medical aid that the largest hospital in Port-au-Prince has a new problem: organizing and finding good use for them all.
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Researchers and engineers are hard at work on a wheelchair controlled by the tongue. It gives patients with the highest level of spinal cord injury mobility without being too conspicuous.
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Physical activity appears to be associated with a reduced risk or slower progression of several age-related conditions as well as improvements in overall health in older age, according to several new studies.
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Using combined and intensive treatments and restructuring care to treat obesity like other chronic diseases may help primary care clinicians and patients better address the condition, according to several new studies.
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Female athletes experience dramatically higher rates of specific musculoskeletal injuries and medical conditions compared to male athletes. That’s because many training programs developed for female athletes are built on research using young adult males and don’t take the intrinsic biological differences between the sexes into account.
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In a new study, the amount of calories selected by parents for their child’s hypothetical meal at McDonald’s restaurants were reduced by an average of 102 calories when the menus clearly showed the calories for each item. This is the first study to suggest that labeled menus may lead to significantly reduced calorie intake in [...]
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