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Aninder S

Teen exercise could lower dementia risk at 65 - Health - CBC News - 0 views

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teen exercise dementia

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  • Exercise has previously been linked to possible benefits in staving off dementia, but a new look at the topic suggests the earlier the better.
  • The prevalence of cognitive impairment was significantly lower in women aged 65 and older who reported they were physically active as teens than in those who were inactive in their teen years, the study found.
  • If we want to optimally prevent dementia, it's important to start physical activity as early in life as possible
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  • More and more people are starting to recognize physical activity as one of the most promising means to prevent cognitive impairment and dementia.
  • The study was published Wednesday appears in the July issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
  • The women reported on their participation in regular physical activity as teens, at ages 30 and 50, and in late life. Their cognition was evaluated using a standardized test, and those who performed well below the average were classified as cognitively impaired
  • People who were active at teen age had a greater reduction in their risk of cognitive impairment compared to any of the other ages,
  • Physical activity can be fun and engaging, and we have to convince people of that in order to prevent some of these diseases of old age
Aninder S

Exercise drops when teens enter college - UPI.com - 0 views

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University Teens Exercise

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  • The amount of regular exercise teens get drops off severely once they enter college, especially among males, researchers in Canada say.
  • 24 percent decrease in physical activity during the 12 years from adolescence to early adulthood
  • The steepest declines were among young men entering university or college.
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  • Using data from Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey, the researchers tracked 683 Canadian adolescents ages 12-15, who were interviewed twice a year until they were ages 24-27.
  • This is a critical period, as the changes in physical activity during the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood represents the most dramatic declines in physical activity across a person's life
  • The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found the rate of decline in physical activity was greater for men than for women, who showed only a modest 1.7 per cent decrease in their overall activity levels
  • "It may be that girls experience the greatest declines in physical activity earlier in their adolescence
Joti P

Health Benefits of Exercise - 0 views

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exercise healthy body fitness

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  • Regular exercise can help protect you from heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, noninsulin-dependent diabetes, obesity, back pain, osteoporosis, and can improve your mood and help you to better manage stress.
  • How Physical Activity Impacts Health
  • Reduces the risk of developing diabetes. • Reduces the risk of developing high blood pressure.
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  • Helps control weight. • Helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints.
  • Specific Health Benefits of Exercise
  • Heart Disease and Stroke.
  • physical activity can help prevent heart disease and stroke by strengthening your heart muscle
  • High Blood Pressure
  • can reduce blood pressure in those with high blood pressure levels.
  • Noninsulin-Dependent Diabetes
  • reducing body fatness, physical activity can help to prevent and control this type of diabetes.
  • Osteoporosis. Regular weight-bearing exercise promotes bone formation and may prevent many forms of bone loss associated with aging.
  • Psychological Effects. Regular physical activity can improve your mood and the way you feel about yourself
  • help you to better manage stress.
Joti P

Weight Training for Teens | Pure Matters - 0 views

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weight training teens

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  • Weight Training for Teens
  • Teens who work out with weights, as well as exercise aerobically, reduce by half their risk for sports injuries.
  • Weight training also helps improve sports performance
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  • boosts bone density and strengthens tendons,
  • Weight training vs. body building
  • Weight training focuses on improving musculoskeletal strength and total fitness
  • Fitness, not superhero
  • Middle- and high-school students should train to increase their strength and improve their physical fitness
  • good teen weight-training program focuses on toning muscles with lighter weights and a high number of repetitions.
  • Be responsible
  • Teens should be supervised at all times while strength training, and should always use safe equipment.
  • Start slowly
  • should begin slowly and increase gradually.
  • shouldn't be increased too soon or by too much.
  • emphasize proper technique
  • Two to three sessions a week on alternating days should be enough to strengthen and tone muscles.
  • Size matters
  • "Programs for teens often rely on free weights, such as dumbbells and barbells; rubber tubing; and calisthenics, such as abdominal curls."
  • Focus on the individual
  • should be individually designed for each adolescent
  • Make it fun
  • should be noncompetitive and fun
  • Stay active
  • Conditioning exercises should be part of an active lifestyle that includes plenty of other physical activity.
  • should feel comfortable with the weight-training program and look forward to it.
  • "Participating in a wide variety of physical activities helps teens stay balanced, trim and physically healthy."
  • Joti P on 06 Jan 12
     
    Good page to read up on muscle training for teens 
Aninder S

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Teen exercise could lower dementia risk at 65 - Health - CBC News: Teen exercise is an important issue for the health of the young generation today. This article discusses how the lack of exercise...

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Joti P

Improve your mood with these foods - TODAY Health - TODAY.com - 0 views

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Mood foods health

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  • following strategies will stabilize your blood sugars
  • Eat every 4 to 5 hours
  • provides your brain and body with a constant source of fuel.
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  • Limit refined carbohydrates to help lessen volatile blood sugar swings
  • create radical spikes (and drops) in your blood sugar
  • Incorporate soluble fiber
  • have the ability to slow down the absorption of sugar in your blood
  • lessen blood sugar
  • Incorporate protein with meals and snacks (whenever possible)
  • Smart protein choices include poultry, seafood and fish, veal, pork tenderloin, tofu, eggs
  • help slow the absorption of carbohydrate in the blood
  • Omega-3 fats
  • mood lifting and to help possibly alleviate depression.
  • Folic acid and B12
  • Foods rich in folate: fortified whole-grain breakfast cereals, lentils, black-eyed peas, soybeans, oatmeal, mustard greens, beets, broccoli, sunflower seeds, wheat germ and oranges.
  • Foods rich in vitamin B12: shellfish (clams, oysters, crab), wild salmon (fresh or canned), fortified whole-grain breakfast cereal, lean beef, cottage cheese, low-fat yogurt, milk (skim, skim plus, 1% reduced-fat) and eggs.
  • Vitamin D
  • Foods rich in vitamin D: fish with bones, fat free and low-fat milk, fortified soy milk and egg yolks
  • Joti P on 02 Dec 11
     
    I think for question 2 this really tells me what food i need to eat not just for physical health, but also for a generally happy mood. 
Paul McCarlie

Fitting in fitness: Finding time for physical activity - MayoClinic.com - 0 views

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fitting fitness finding time activity physical

shared by Paul McCarlie on 10 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Setting aside enough time to sleep — let alone exercise — can be tough
  • Wake up early. Get up 30 minutes earlier than you normally do and use the extra time to walk on your treadmill or take a brisk walk
  • Make chores count.
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  • Be active while watching TV.
  • Involve the whole family. Take group walks before or after dinner. Play catch. Ride your bikes.
  • Get your dog into the act. Take daily walks with Fido or Fluffy.
Joti P

The Secret Food to Mood Connection | Healthy Eating | Nutrition - 0 views

www.musclemagfitness.com/...t-food-to-mood-connection.html

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      Joti P on 06 Jan 12
       
      This page is highly specific o the types of food that are good for alertness. 
  • Joti P on 06 Jan 12
     
    With question two I have been trying to find websites/articles that talk about health not including physical health.
Aninder S

What Is Exercise Addiction - 0 views

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Exercise Addiction

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  • Exercise addiction may not necessarily sound like a bad thing to everyone. After all, numerous studies have demonstrated the physical and emotional health benefits of regular exercise -- it is essential to our well-being
  • exercise addiction is maladaptive, so instead of improving the person’s life, it is causes more problems.
  • Exercise addiction can threaten health, causing injuries, physical damage due to inadequate rest, and in some instances (particularly when co-occurring with an eating disorder), malnutrition and other problems.
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  • Secondly, it is persistent, so an exercise addict exercises too much and for too long without giving the body a chance to recover
  • exercise addicts exercise for hours every day, regardless of fatigue or illness
  • Exercise addiction is probably the most contradictory of all the addictions
  • Exercise is even promoted as part of a complete program of recovery from other addictions
  • exercise addiction is a controversial idea. Many experts balk at the idea that excessive exercise can constitute an addiction, believing that there has to be a psychoactive substance that produces symptoms -- such as withdrawal -- for an activity to be a true addiction
  • exercise releases endorphins (opioids produced within the body), and excessive exercise causes tolerance to the hormones and neurotransmitters released, these physiological processes are often not considered comparable to other substance addictions.
  • Exercise addiction is not currently included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), the gold standard for psychological diagnoses, although several authors have suggested diagnostic criteria
Aninder S

The Importance of Sleep - 0 views

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Sleep Importance

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  • We don't need to know that rats who generally live 2 - 3 years die within 3 weeks when deprived of sleep to understand how important sleep is to our bodies and health. But it does emphasize the importance of sleep!
  • brain wave activity during sleep and how the eyeballs roll around rapidly during certain stages of sleep
  • Sleep is the time we rest so that the body can rejuvenate and recharge.
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  • The body needs sleep and rest time to build and repair itself.
  • babies can sleep up to 20 hours a day
  • children need 10 - 12 hours of sleep every day on average.
  • importance of sleep is obvious when we look at how it's necessary for physical growth and health!
  • One thing that definitely affects sleep is a certain hormone that your body produces called melatonin
  • Sleep (or lack of sleep) has a direct impact on your health and energy levels
  • The main factors that determine wellness or illness in addition to sleep are: Nutrition Physical Activity and Stress Management
Aninder S

What Are The Causes - 0 views

What Are The Causes Of Teen Stress? | LIVESTRONG.COM: Homework is not and should not be the only stress factor in a teens life. This article discusses various reasons a teen might feel stressed. W...

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Aninder S

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Exercise drops when teens enter college - UPI.com: Many of us will be soon heading off to university and workload will only increase. But, we need to make sure that we we keep our fitness level up...

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Joti P

Exercise: 7 benefits of regular physical activity - MayoClinic.com - 0 views

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Exercise Health benefits

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  • Exercise: 7 benefits of regular physical activity
Justin D

Depression In Athletes | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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depression athletes

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  • Justin D on 09 Jan 12
     
    Depression is a mental health disorder that interferes with the physical and psychological well-being of an individual. Athletes are at risk for depression--high pressure sporting events, personal and team expectations and individual disposition may increase bouts of depression in susceptible athletes.
Wasif H

Explosive Speed Training | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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speed training cardio healthy body fitness exercise

shared by Wasif H on 02 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • In regard to athletics, speed is how fast an individual can travel from one point to another. It has to do with stride frequency, or the number of steps per unit of time, and stride length, or the distance that each step covers.
  • To increase your speed, your daily training sessions should place emphasis on improving your overall work capacity, ensuring that your joint mobility is normal, increasing the strength of your legs and core, developing running endurance and improving running coordination.
  • There are numerous drills that should be incorporated into an explosive speed training program that help to improve your coordination and running technique. Marching drills, skipping and arm swings are typically done prior to more intensive training exercises.
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  • Because these are not physically intensive, you should try to fit these in every day. They’re meant to develop muscle memory and teach your nervous system and muscles how to efficiently work together, so the more repetitions you can get in of form drills, the better.
  • Form drills are very important, but it’s essential that you take the skills that you learn from them and apply them to actual speed and endurance drills.
  • There are different types of speed and endurance training workouts that you can incorporate, such as participating in extensive intervals, which means completing a high number of sprinting repetitions, or you can use intensive intervals, which require you to do less repetitions but at high-speed, very intense sprints, perhaps with added resistance such as running hills, or using a parachute for drag.
Aninder S

Lack of sleep can make you sick - 0 views

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lack of sleep

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  • An extra hour or two of sleep seems so ... optional. Yet, lack of sleep is implicated in obesity, poor heart health and mental illness.
  • Lack of sleep can trigger certain epileptic seizures. Strokes and heart attacks occur more often in the last third of the night.
  • Stay awake just 17 hours and your brain behaves as though you have a blood alcohol level of 0.05, the legal limit for drunkenness in most European countries.
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  • So don't be too quick to dismiss that apparently lazy teenager, doddering senior or dissolute employee -- there may be sleep-health issues lurking in the background.
  • Students, workaholics, hassled parents and diehard partiers listen up -- a single all-nighter or a week of four or five hours sleep per night impairs your mental and physical performance as if you had a blood alcohol level of about 0.1, over the legal limit of 0.08 for driving in British Columbia.
    • Aninder S
      Aninder S on 03 Dec 11
       
      Being in high school, we do tend to get bogged down with work and sacrifice the time we have to sleep, to study for our courses. This article shows us that we're absolutely nothing without our sleep, and we need it ti keep us functionally properly. 
Joti P

ADOLESCENT SLEEP - 0 views

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adolescent sleep

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  • How Much Sleep Do They Need?
  • 9 hours and 15 minutes of sleep.
  • Children need 10 hours
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  • adults need 8 1/4 hours.
  • How Does Sleep Deprivation Affect the Teen-ager?
  • Sleep deprivation can impair memory an
  • inhibit creativity making it difficult for sleep deprived students to learn.
  • endanger their immune system and make them more suceptible to serious illnesses
  • Stay away from caffeine
  • Avoid heavy studying or computer games before bed, they can be arousing. Avoid arguing with your adolescent just before bedtime. Avoid trying to sleep with a computer or TV flickering in the room. Avoid bright light in the evening, but open blinds or turn on lights as soo
  • Avoid trying to sleep with a computer or TV flickering in the room.
  • Avoid heavy studying or computer games before bed, they can be arousing.
  • Note: Sleep experts consider adolescents to be between the ages of 11 and 22.
  • Studies show that the changes taking place in their bodies requires more sleep and they may be physically challenged to getting up early in the morning.
  • Joti P on 03 Dec 11
     
    This really shows other aspects of health that can also be a factor in how your general health is affected. It helps answer question 7.
Aninder S

Obesity, diabetes: expanding India faces big problem - 0 views

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india obesity problems

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  • childhood obesity and diabetes have become an increasing problem among the middle classes, who have largely benefited from a decade of rapid economic growth.
  • The high number of cases among South Asian people has been attributed to genetic factors, including a predisposition to storing more fat.
  • Socio-environmental factors, though, are now seen as playing an increasing role in the rising number of cases of Type 2 diabetes.
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  • The condition, which occurs when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it makes, largely as a result of excess body weight and physical inactivity, was previously seen mainly in older people .
  • But Indian people are less concerned about nutrition. They first focus on the spice of the food, the taste."
  • Overweight children with diabetes are at greater risk of developing heart disease and heart attacks, deteriorating eyesight, kidney failure, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
    • Aninder S
      Aninder S on 03 Dec 11
       
      This opens your eyes has to how other places other than Canada, but also India, deal with similar cases of obesity. This also shows is that the way we grow up eating sticks with is as a habit. If we develop a habit of eating fatty foods, then we carry that through our lives. It affects you when you get older and you will continue to spread those some learnings to others. 
Wasif H

How To Help A Teenage Boy Put On Lean Weight & Mass | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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weight mass teenager fitness healthy body

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  • Putting on muscle mass is a long process that involves hard work and patience. To succeed, both exercise and nutrition must be considered. The National Strength and Conditioning Association reports that novice weightlifters can gain up to 1 lb. a week of muscle, while experienced weightlifters can gain up to half a pound of muscle each month.
  • Design a weightlifting program for him. MayoClinic.com recommends two or three workouts per week of at least 20 minutes each. To maximize his progress, he will need to increase the weights he uses gradually as well as the length and intensity of his workouts. Advanced weightlifters work out for an hour or more--as often as six days a week, according to the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
  • Lift weights yourself, and partner with him to encourage him to work hard. To motivate him, you will need to prove you are willing to work at least as hard as he does. If you are not in physical shape to act as his partner, find a suitable partner for him.
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  • Feed him high portions of low-fat, healthy foods. Muscle mass cannot be gained without the fuel provided by food. To gain weight, he will need to consume more calories than he burns. To gain half a pound of muscle per week, he will need to eat 250 more calories more per day than he has been eating, according to exercise physiologist Joseph A. Chromiak.
  • Add protein to his diet. Select protein sources that are relatively non-fatty, such as baked fish and poultry, advises the Harvard School of Public Health.
  • Provide a dark and quiet sleep environment for him, and make sure he gets eight hours of sleep every night. It is during sleep that the body repairs damaged muscle tissue and builds muscle mass.
Ali C

Creatine & Protein Shakes | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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Crea creatine shakes protein body

shared by Ali C on 04 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Creatine and protein shakes are commonly used by weightlifters and athletes looking to bulk up or improve their overall physical fitness levels. Creatine is a naturally occurring amino acid found in fish and meat and produced naturally in the liver, kidneys and pancreas, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. Protein shakes are supplements used to fuel the body with protein in an effort to build muscle.
  • Creatine works by supplying the muscles with additional energy during a workout. This can help you increase the intensity of your workouts, although it has been shown to be ineffective for some people, the University of Maryland Medical Center notes. Protein powders are primarily used immediately following a workout to help replenish the body with much-needed proteins lost during an intense lifting session. Muscles are made of protein, considered the building block of all bodily tissues.
  • Contrary to what some people believe, protein supplementation is not necessarily a healthy way to lose weight, cautions Mayo Clinic dietitian Katherine Zeratsky. Meal-replacement shakes that are high in protein cannot replicate or achieve the nutritional value of whole foods. Zeratsky recommends focusing on eating healthy, well-balanced meals and watching your calorie intake to lose weight safely.
    • Ali C
      Ali C on 04 Dec 11
       
      A website that answered all my questions about creatine and protein shakes. It told me how much I should take, what affects it has, and exactly what is in it.
    • Jason Levitt
      Jason Levitt on 04 Dec 11
       
      Creatine is a hugely debated topic. Many boys your age feel that they have to supplement their diet to see huge gains in their progress. I am interested to chat with you about your thoughts about creatine.
    • Ali C
      Ali C on 05 Dec 11
       
      Yeah I would be interested to talk about it Mr. Levitt! I dont know wether I should take it or not, like I take regular protein for now. I just know you must drink alot of water with creatine or you get kidney stones.
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