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Sitting Bull: How Sitting Affects Cardiovascular Risk

Paul Rogers — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:10:37 +0000

Now Sitting Bull was the famous Native American chief who defeated General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But that’s not what I’m going to talk about here. Take this quote for example from ABC Australia and Professor Marc Hamilton, a researcher into the dangers of “sitting”. “The studies show sitting for long periods can [...]

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Sitting Bull: How Sitting Affects Cardiovascular Risk

Weights or Aerobics for Fat Burning? It’s All About Energy Expenditure

Paul Rogers — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:13:31 +0000

I’m always amazed at how easily nonsense gets a hold in the fitness community and spreads like wildfire. One concept that has received widespread dissemination over a decade or longer is that weight training is better for fat loss than aerobic training. Various ideas about this have been propagated, including more muscle means more resting energy expenditure, [...]

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Weights or Aerobics for Fat Burning? It’s All About Energy Expenditure

What You Need to Know About Healthy Bones

Paul Rogers — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:22:55 +0000

Worrying about their bones is not something that teenage girls give high priority to – not in relation to how strong they are going to be in 20 years anyway. Nevertheless, building strong bones in adolescent and teenage years is crucial to having strong bones throughout life and into old age. Some older men and [...]

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What You Need to Know About Healthy Bones

How Physical Activity Prevents Lifestyle Disease

Paul Rogers — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:50:32 +0000

Compared to how humans lived prior to civilization, and even how people lived up until the present century – and some still do – we in the developed nations move very much less. It may be obvious, it may be overstated and it may seem trivial in the scheme of healthy living, but it is [...]

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How Physical Activity Prevents Lifestyle Disease

Maintaining the Ageing Brain for Wellness

Paul Rogers — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:07:51 +0000

The brain wears out; it’s as simple (or as complex) as that. The ageing brain has a propensity to lose function, but you can do a lot to slow or halt this progress. Various dementias and Alzheimer’s disease are possible outcomes. Both result in substantial and progressive loss of mental capacity — and in the case [...]

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Maintaining the Ageing Brain for Wellness

Why You Can’t Substitute Fat and Protein for Carbohydrate in Athletic Endeavour

Paul Rogers — Mon, 31 May 2010 06:58:59 +0000

Low-carb dieting still has many followers after many years. Some people find it works for weight loss — if they can stick to it for any length of time. Yet the proponents and supporters of low-carbohydrate dieting are always looking for one more angle to boost the somewhat low credibility of low-carb eating among most [...]

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Why You Can’t Substitute Fat and Protein for Carbohydrate in Athletic Endeavour

Are the Framingham Heart Risk Tests Useless?

Paul Rogers — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:07:03 +0000

I trust everyone who had a holiday break over December is refreshed and ready for another long, hot and sweaty year — either from climate change or your exceedingly vigorous exercise regimen. The Framingham Heart Study and Risk Factors Commencing in 1948, the Framingham Heart Study is the largest and longest running study of cardiovascular [...]

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Are the Framingham Heart Risk Tests Useless?

Is Your Heart Bullet-Proof?

Paul Rogers — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:38:36 +0000

I credit Rad over at Eons for alerting me to the specifics of this heart rate recovery test, although I was aware that heart rate recovery research in relation to cardiovascular health had been around for some time, using various medical and fitness treadmill stress tests like the Bruce or Balke protocols. According to the researchers working in this [...]

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Is Your Heart Bullet-Proof?

How to Improve Restrictive Diets with A Few Tweaks – Atkins, Ornish, Vegan

Paul Rogers — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:36:36 +0000

I’m not a big fan of low-carbohydrate diets, or most other restrictive diets for that matter. For one thing I’ve been doing hard exercise since I was 10 years old and I’m not about to stop anytime soon. You need optimal quantities of carbohydrates and a reasonable quantity of quality fats and protein for health [...]

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How to Improve Restrictive Diets with A Few Tweaks – Atkins, Ornish, Vegan

Survival of the Fittest

Paul Rogers — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:27:47 +0000

We all know that exercise and physical activity is good for us: authorities have been belting out the message for decades. Even so, it all gets a little confusing trying to decide how much, what type of exercise, and how to know if you’re doing enough by any measurable parameter. Now it seems we have [...]

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Survival of the Fittest