How to Keep Healthy New Year Resolutions – When you make New Year’s resolutions, physically nothing changes. You are still you, and you’ll wake up on New Year’s Day still the person you were on New Year’s Eve. You may be slightly hungover if you’ve had a good time the night before. You may feel […]
A new study looking at health data from the last 20 years has highlighted the benefits of exercise programmes for individuals living with long-term health conditions. Drawing on a comprehensive overview of published evidence spanning 39 different long-term conditions – and encompassing 990 randomised controlled trials and over 900,000 patients – the research underscores the […]
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Most medical experts would agree that regular exercise is any activity that involves movement and enables your body to burn calories. Regular physical activity has been linked with good health, boosting energy, and mood enhancement. It is also associated with lowering risks of chronic diseases. There’s a long list of different types of simple exercises […]
Minimal Physical Activity Beneficial in Late-Stage Lung Cancer: Lung cancer kills more people globally each year than any other type of cancer, however new Curtin University-led research has found less than five minutes of daily physical activity could be linked with prolonged life in people living with inoperable forms of the disease. The team from […]
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3 vital electrolytes and what they do in the body: If you’re physically active, go to the gym, or are even remotely interested in the world of fitness, you most likely have heard about electrolytes and their importance when it comes to performance. But do you know what electrolytes are and why they are such […]
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Top tips to help boost your immune system FAST: No matter what time of year the common cold and other such illnesses can strike. We can be affected by it in many different ways. But many of us will come down with a runny nose, a congested head, and a sore throat at least twice […]
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New research warns that open air swimmers could risk fluid in their lungs. How Wild Swimming in cold water could risk fluid in the lung, even in young healthy people and what doctors and healthcare staff should look out for. According to Hippocrates, cold water therapy relieved fatigue. In 1810, Lord Byron sparked the modern […]
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Experiencing breathlessness when you exercise could be a sign of a problem with your main artery, the aorta – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. It was previously thought that breathlessness while exercising was a sign of heart or lung problems, or being generally unfit. But a new study reveals that […]
Pedal power pays off: mountain biking benefits outweigh risks. New Curtin research into injuries sustained by trail users has found mountain biking is not the dangerous, injury-plagued sport reserved for thrill-seekers that it is often perceived to be and that the health benefits outweigh the risks. Researchers analysed data from dozens of studies across the […]
Enjoy a Sight Sanctuary Summer: New research from the Global Myopia Awareness Coalition (GMAC) has revealed that over half (52 percent) of today’s generation play outside less than their parents did when they were young. A study of 2,000 parents of children aged four to 12 highlighted the true extent to which today’s younger generations […]