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Build Aerobic Fitness and Muscle Strength

Build Aerobic Fitness and Muscle Strength
Live longer and better Maintain your independence, avoid disability Older people who wish to live independently and maintain a high degree of autonomy over their lives need to keep moving. Recent research identifies two key aspects of keep moving that reduce risk of chronic diseases and disability until late in life: 1) aerobic fitness, and…
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The Cost Savings of Better Diabetes Management

The Cost Savings of Better Diabetes Management
Type 2 diabetes can be reversed and managed effectively The cost-savings could be huge It is now well-established that remission occurs for type 2 diabetes. But just how prevalent is diabetic remission? Researchers in the UK used cross-sectional data from 117,048 adults over age 30 the Scottish Care Information-Diabetes registry to document the prevalence of…
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Healthy Lifestyle Choices and Parkinson’s Disease

Its cause is unknown and there’s no known cure But healthy lifestyle choices may help you avoid Parkinson’s disease Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition that appears mostly in older people. The incidence of PD has increased over the past several decades, especially in seniors over age 70. The cause of PD is unknown…
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How to Explain Obesity

How to Explain Obesity
The energy-balance model doesn’t help much The carbohydrate-insulin model works better For decades, researchers and health organizations have promoted the energy-balance model to account for obesity. It assumes that “a calorie is a calorie” in terms of weight gain and loss. According to the model, differing levels and types of carbohydrates, protein, and fats in…
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