A 30-year-old male student enrolled in the United States has been confirmed as China’s second H1N1, or swine flu, case, and its first on the mainland, according to the information office of the Chinese Health Ministry.
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New research suggests for the first time that frequent bouts of sporadic activity could be just as beneficial to children’s health as longer exercise sessions. A team measured the frequency, intensity and duration of bouts of physical activity in a group of children and analyzed the results against a number of health indicators. The results [...]
Moderate calorie restriction causes temporal changes in the liver and skeletal muscle metabolism, whereas moderate weight loss affects muscle. In addition, researchers found that short-term calorie restriction with a low-carbohydrate diet caused a greater change in liver fat content and metabolic function than short-term CR with a high-carbohydrate diet.
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School children as young as 11 can benefit from a daily exercise program in reducing their levels of several known risk factors for cardiovascular disease. An ongoing study, which began four years ago in the German city of Leipzig, shows already that children assigned to daily exercise lessons reduced their overall prevalence of obesity, improved [...]
A man who already had heart problems died last week from what appeared to be complications from swine flu, health officials in Washington state said Saturday.
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British soldier Phil Packer was told a year ago that he would never walk again, but on Saturday he finished the London Marathon.
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The World Health Organization on Saturday reported 3,440 confirmed cases of swine flu in 29 countries, with 48 deaths from the sickness.
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Scientists have blown open the myth that massage after exercise improves circulation to the muscle and assists in the removal of lactic acid and other waste products. Massage actually impairs blood flow to the muscle after exercise, and it therefore also impairs the removal of lactic acid from muscle after exercise.
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New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United States since the 1970s was virtually all due to increased energy intake.
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The number of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States nearly doubled Friday to 1,639 cases in 43 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on its Web site.
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