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Archive for July, 2010

A new study that appears in Cardiology Clinic examines the average level of physical form of the obese morbid (body mass index between 40.0 and 49.9).

The results show that the sedentary population to prove that during more than 99 percent of the day, on average, walked less than 2500 steps per day, which is far below the guidelines of the healthy life that includes some 10,000 steps per day.

The results provide important linkages between the obesity, the poor physical fitness and cardiovascular diseases.

The study used a sensor of precision in the agency continuously to the extent of physical activity, caloric expenditure and the movement minute by minute during a period of 72 hours within their domestic environments.

After the collection of data, structured the role cardio-respiratory, was carried out the aptitude test in each field.

The majority of the participants obese morbid in the study were markedly sedentary and on average slept 23 hours and 51.6 minutes per day, without daily activity sustained and the remaining group conducted 8.4 minutes of moderate activity. On average, the subject took 3,763 ± 2,223 steps. Read the rest of this entry »

The increase in size in the trousers tends to be a clear signal of the centimeters that are superfluous in the abdomen, why are not over the years to help achieve abdominal levels and marked.

One of the exercises to thin the abdomens made on the ground. To begin must be checked that the entire back lies on the floor, even that small curvature that forms in the lower back, once revised this detail can begin with the movement. With his hands on the head and a leg bent will seek the knee of that leg is with the elbow on the opposite side in the half of the road, i.e. right knee with left elbow and left knee with right elbow, for the alternative. Make up to 20 repetitions completed the series.

In addition to the well-known abdominal can carry out an exercise that helps to burn fat in the center of the body. Again, lying on the ground and ensuring that all the back you play, fold the legs and left the soles of feet on the ground. With hands to the level of the ears, lifting shoulders until achieving brought from the ground, then maintains this position for 5 seconds, rest and then repeats itself. Read the rest of this entry »

The chemical compounds that are in the broccoli and cabbage, allow fight against cancer by reducing the activity of an enzyme associated with the rapid advancement of breast cancer, according to the University of California, Berkeley, the study that appears on the issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The compound, indole-3-carbinol, is undergoing clinical trials in humans, since it was found the ability to stop the growth of breast cancer and prostate cells of animals.

The new findings are the first to explain how indole-3-carbinol (I3C) stops the cell growth and, therefore, provide the basis for the development of improved versions of the chemical that would be more effective, as a drug and could work against a wider range of tumors.

“I believe that one of the real uses of this compound and its derivatives combines with other types of therapies, such as the tamoxifen for breast cancer and anti-androgen for prostate cancer,” said the co-author Gary Firestone, UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cellular biology.

“Human beings have co-evolved with the vegetables crucifers as the broccoli and Brussels sprouts, so this natural source has far fewer side effects”. Read the rest of this entry »

In full cycle depressed the truth is that one in the least thought is to make things. The circle tour with so much downward force that ends up making that any despite and any type of demand we appears as an agent that can worsen severely things. However, the scientific evidence proves otherwise.

In this site we have made reference in one or two times to the importance that is the fact of exercise to combat depression. This is not a personal perception, because this time finds new evidence that the dynamics of the year operates effectively in this way, and the news come nothing less than at the University of Michigan.

This institution worked with women not depressed and with women who are depressed, making walk to the last for 30 minutes twice a week to over three weeks. The results showed a significant reduction of the feeling of depression in women who are exercised, something that did not occur with which they did not do exercises.

The logic is simple and known: the exercise allows us to deal with stress, insomnia and anxiety only to carry it out. But in addition, exercise makes free endorphins; chemicals that make us feel good and acting calming the pain of the body and the devastating effect of the sadness. Read the rest of this entry »