How much do you have to exercise to improve your endurance and aerobic fitness?

A lot of people don’t exercise because they think they have to spend a lot of time doing it every week, and that does not appeal to them. Let’s see what research has found. Several years ago research was conducted on what was called high intensity short interval training. Since...
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How do you think stress affects your metabolism?

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Not all exercise burns fat equally.

Not all exercise burns fat equally.

 Have you accepted this truism: that the more physically active you are, the less likely you are to gain weight? Here is the catch: not all exercise is equally effective when it comes to burning fat. The good news is you don’t have to exercise for several hours a...
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Walk fast to get help with with weight loss.

Walking has been promoted as an easy way to lose weight and stay in shape, but is it really effective? That is exactly what the reviewed researched investigated. The participants a total of 4511 adults aged 18-64 years were included in the study(Fan JX, et al. 2013). The body mass...
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Is more exercise better for fat loss?

Exercise is a necessity if you want to stay healthy, but how effective is it for losing weight if that is the only thing you change, and for how long do you have to exercise? The reviewed research was an attempt to clarify that, and you may find the results...
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Does exercise affect inflammation?

Posted by:  Didrik Sopler
The research reviewed here investigated the effect of 2 types of exercises involving participants with the metabolic syndrome (Stensvold D, et al. 2012). The metabolic syndrome is associated with chronic low grade inflammation. Several inflammatory cytokines were measured including interleukin-18 (IL-18) which seems to be the best marker of inflammation...
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