Jungbleiben mit Muskelkraft – in SZ
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PLOS Medicine Paper: “Traditional and Emerging Lifestyle Risk Behaviors and All-Cause Mortality in Middle- Aged and Older Adults: Evidence from a Large Population-Based Australian Cohort”
Concludion: “This large study reaffirms the importance of healthy lifestyles here evidenced for adults aged45 y and older. This analysis investigated four established and two novel risk factors namelyprolonged sitting and unhealthy sleep duration which may be added to behavioral…
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in Neurology: “Lower physical activity is associated with higher disease burden in pediatric multiple sclerosis”
Link to paper:;http://www.neurology.org/content/early/2015/08/12/WNL.0000000000001939.short Conclusoin. “….Children with MS reporting higher levels of strenuous PA had lower T2 lesion volumes and lower relapse rates suggesting a potential protective effect of strenuous PA in this population. Further longitudinal studies are needed to establish…
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Is Exercise Really Medicine? An Evolutionary Perspective by Daniel E. Lieberman
Full paper: www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/pdfs/2015c.pdf Conclusion: “The bottom line is that just as cultural innovations are causing the physical activity epidemic new cultural measures are needed to restore the need to move in our environments. Until we do so effectively we can…
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Physical Activity Research Factors Infl-ncing Primary Health Care Professionals Physical Activity Promotion Behaviors: A Systematic Review
Article;International Journal of Behavioral Medicine;February 2015;Volume 22;Issue 1;pp 32-50;First online:;02 May 2014 “AbstractBackground Despite the promising findings related to the efficacy of interventions aimed at promoting physical activity (PA) in primary health care (PHC) the translation of these interventions to…
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Genes vs Physical activity/lifestyle to prolong life – by Werner Bartens in SZ
www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/genetik-lebenslang-aktiv-1.2715544 See also “Physical activity genes for physical fitness and risk of coronary heart disease.” at;Med Sci Sports Exerc.;2013 Apr;45(4):691-7. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182784e9f. Pubmed;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23073218 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23073218“CONCLUSIONS:;In this large prospective cohort of women genes associated with physical fitness did not modify the inverse…
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Sitting for long periods isnt that bad? It may depend on how active you are ….
Link to full paper:;Associations of sitting behaviours with all-cause mortality over a 16-year follow-up: the Whitehall II study;Richard M. Pulsford;et al;http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/10/09/ije.dyv191 Dr Melvyn Hillsdon from Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter said: “Policy makers should be cautious…
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“Exercise in a bottle” may trigger new insights about myokines
Full paper “Global Phosphoproteomic Analysis of Human Skeletal Muscle Reveals a Network of Exercise-Regulated Kinases and AMPK Substrates” in Cell Metabolism;doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2015.09.001 Article in;http://humankinetics.me/2015/10/16/exercise-in-a-bottle/
When is the last time you saw an elephant smoke? JAMA paper by Abegglen et al about cancer risk in elephants and humans
“Most human cancers…are associated with lifestyles that are not found among animals such as smoking reproductive dietary and sun-soaking habits. These behaviors are relatively recently acquired by humans over a few hundred years and the risks they impart far exceed…
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Step Length: Modifiable Risk Factor for Knee OA? Retraining for longer stride might help reduce osteoarthritis risk
Funded by;NIH and the Rheumatology Research Foundation Article in Medpage today: ;http://www.medpagetoday.com/Rheumatology/Arthritis/54057?xid=nlmptDHE2015-10-13;eun=g848991d0r