We’ve all found ourselves at certain times in our lives having to put important activities down to address things requiring immediate attention. One of the most often first items chopped from schedules during those pressing times is exercise.
Exercise is an easy item to chop from the calendar in challenging times […]
By: Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
The most recent research shows that relatively short bursts of intense exercise—even if done only a total of a few minutes each week—can deliver many of the health- and fitness benefits you get from doing hours of conventional […]
By: Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
If you’re diagnosed with breast cancer, new research suggests that one of the best strategies to improve your chances of recovery is to start a regular exercise program.
This is a radical departure from the now-outdated advice that cancer […]
By: Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
Your brain can shrink up to 15 percent as you get older, and this size decrease is associated with dementia, poor memory and other mental health issues like depression.
But this shrinkage isn’t inevitable. People with “healthy” brains are […]
By: Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
Did you know that working out just 20 minutes using interval exercise may provide many of the same benefits of much longer workouts done in conventional “long-duration” style?
A growing body of research shows you may not need to […]
By: Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and “disabling”.
Among them, many suffer from neck pain, which is the third most common type of pain […]
By: Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
Breast cancer is a growing epidemic among women, with just under 12 percent of women developing an invasive form of the disease during their lifetimes.
This works out to about one in eight U.S. women!
Research suggests, however, that one […]
By: Dr. Mercola
Source: Mercola.com
Increasing physical frailty as you age is commonly accepted as “a fact of life.”
Until recently, most studies showed that after the age of 40, people typically lose eight percent or more of their muscle mass with each passing […]
