Breaking Health News
- Playing active video games can equal moderate intensity exercise
One-third of Wii sport and Wii fit activities provide energy expenditures equal to moderate-intensity exercise. Active video games may help prevent or improve obesity and lifestyle-related diseases, researchers said. The study was funded by Nintendo.
- Runners: Train less and be faster
A new scientific study demonstrates that by reducing the volume of training by 25% and introducing speed endurance training, endurance trained runners can improve not only short-term but also long-term performance.
- ‘Slimming gene’ discovered that regulates body fat
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fruit fly gene that controls the metabolism of fat. Larvae in which this gene is defective lose their entire fat reserves. Mammals carry a group of genes that are structurally very similar. The scientists therefore hope this research could lead to new medicines to fight obesity.
- Low-fat diet may improve mood
A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has found that though both a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet and a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet can help people lose weight, only the low-fat diet can help people improve their moods.
- Dark chocolate – the new antianxiety drug?
In the high anxiety group, eating chocolate reduced levels of their stress hormones, and the changes were “biologically significant,”
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