Intense short workouts useful for elderly people

To keep in shape can make a kind of intense exercise but of short duration (certainly after proper warm up, muscle stretching and paying attention to microtrauma) and a study conducted in Scotland have shown that it is useful for the elderly to do just six seconds of vigorous workout to get good results on a healthy level and thus reduce blood pressure, improve muscle oxygenation, the general state of health and consequently reduce the high costs for health care to individuals of a certain age tend to increase progressively in the population. The test was carried out by subjecting a group of elderly twice a week for six weeks in a kind of intense exercise training on bike for six seconds, then after restore the normal heartbeat is repeated and eventually running one minute of exercise at the end of exercise.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jul 29, 2014              n°:   2585      


Obese women unwary to food

A test comparing obese women with women in good physical shape by displaying a sequence of images relating to food to remember would have shown that obese women have lower results, at least from an American study which, however, did not find the same differences in men and identified the causes of this kind of learning deficits in the fact that obese women have a poor perception of their physical appearance and this leads to concerns about food and incorrect nutrition assessments. The test was performed in obese women showing the sequence of various foods followed by a picture to remember a particular color, then proceeded to change the order of the sequence and the color, but apparently there were no differences with women in good shape if the test was intended with the same method to recognize money to the obese women.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jul 19, 2014                         n°:   2577      


Australians increasingly overweight

Three out of five Australian adults would be overweight with a BMI (body mass index) greater than twenty-five although there was a marked reduction in the consumption of tobacco and alcohol, probably due to incisive campaigns with unpleasant pictures in plain view on the packages of cigarettes and higher taxes as well as warnings about driving while intoxicated. Overweight people seem to be interested in the number of calories that introduce with the nutrition, but despite this they continue to gain weight also due to the lack of exercise; then especially in the young have been reported anxiety that may result from lack of work or insecurity. Other studies indicate as extremely obese people may reduce the life expectancy of over fourteen years due to increased risk of various diseases related.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jul 11, 2014                         n°:   2570      


Research on the metabolism of extinct species

The rate of growth may be indicative of the speed of metabolism and comparing the growth rings and the size of the bones of hundreds of species is extinct that living researchers have discovered that dinosaurs probably belonged to an intermediate class between the warm-blooded animals and those in cold blood. We must consider that if double the metabolism is also roughly doubles the rate of growth and, for example, mammals and birds can move and think quickly burning a lot of food that also allows to maintain a stable temperature, while the cold-blooded reptiles can economize on food but leads to lower thermoregulatory capacity and overall speed. Metabolism affects all physico-chemical transformations of living materials and in humans is important for the fitness calculate the basal and total metabolism.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Jun 14, 2014                         n°:   2547      


Modernization and obesity

The data regarding the number and habits of obese or overweight, which now number in the globe would have exceeded two billion people, would show that they are often linked to little health-conscious habits and typical of the so-called phenomenon of modernization of the society, and in particular for example in developing countries many people are obese because they have little time to dedicate to physical activity being engaged in long trips by commuters to get to work and the use of computers, then also women who have at the same time to work and look the family can not find the time to take care of their physical form. In general both children and adults do not build enough muscle mass and also food-related habits are no longer classical, but with abuses consuming unhealthy foods several times a day leading to spiraling the obesity.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    May 30, 2014                         n°:   2534      


Exercise useful for heart health

Nearly three thousand lives could be saved each year in Australia if women older than the age of thirty would follow the guidelines relating to the exercises for cardiovascular health from the moment that the lack of exercise is a major risk factor although it should be account of other factors such as cigarette smoking, obesity, high values of pressure and cholesterol; this at least as shown by a study conducted in Australia on more than thirty thousand women. Although smoking is considered to be the greatest risk factor has been noted that when women advancing in years stop smoking the factor that becomes dominant for the health of the heart is the lack of exercise and for this reason should promote a good training schedule forty-five minutes a day or at least thirty minutes five days a week in addition to controlling the other risk values.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    May 15, 2014                         n°:   2520      


Muscles rebuilt after traumatic incidents

Applying an experimental technique on five patients who had lost most of the muscles of the legs American researchers would be able to achieve improvements in three of them using extracellular matrices derived from pig bladders (already used in the past to treat hernias and ulcers of the skin) in order to attract stem cells of the damaged areas in this way and stimulate the regrowth of the muscles, whereas there are no cures for reconstructions muscle in the case for example for an incident of traumatic type has been damaged a large volume of muscle tissue. This technique involves the implant of compressed sheets of extracellular matrix ECM prepared and shaped to fill the areas to be treated of damaged muscle of patients who often can no longer walk or be independent would give, after an appropriate period of rehabilitation, interesting results.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    May 02, 2014                         n°:   2509      


Alcohol bad for muscle and training

Muscle weakness caused by alcohol abuse for long periods of time could result from the inability of mitochondria to repair itself, at least as shown by studies carried out by American researchers who have examined the process of mitochondrial fusion in rats noting how the exchange of DNA which allows the regeneration of muscles is hampered by the administration of alcohol that interfere on the action of some specific proteins; but for some time for example was known as acetaldehyde, an intermediate metabolite of alcohol considered toxic, had a significant oxidative action on the lipid membranes of cells. As for the workout alcohol is generally considered an "empty food calories" (except maybe the red wine) that does not help much to fitness, giving a false impression of athleticism that tends to fade quickly.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Apr 24, 2014                         n°:   2503      


Healthy teeth for performing athletes

Having dental problems of various types in athletes must achieve the performance at the highest levels and can interfere with the workout compromising its effectiveness, at least from what appears to be a British study done by controlling the state of health of the mouth of athletes participating in the Olympic Games; in fact the toothache may impoverish the quality of sleep, the workout and inflammation of the gums may have effects on the entire body by then decrease performance. This does not mean that just give an athlete a good toothbrush, a bottle of anti-plaque mouthwash, dental floss as well as teach brushing technique effective for it to become a champion, but simply that this can improve performance a little (which can be crucial in some circumstances) since many athletes seem to have very little teeth care.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Apr 08, 2014                         n°:   2490      


Race with some problem between clouds of pollen

As happens every spring there is the problem of the clouds of pollen that pass through the air causing some discomfort in allergic individuals, about a twenty-five percent of the population compared to a five percent monitored at the beginning of the last century, and some suspect that for this sharp increase can intervene environmental factors and pollution as well as a greater propensity to outdoors workout especially in polluted areas. Do a simple walk to keep in shape exposes the body to respiratory allergies that often are hereditary, since it seems to have an allergic progenitor increase the risk of allergic of a thirty percent and sixty-six if is the father. Regarding the race should keep in mind that for example the low temperatures also cause unhealthy vasoconstriction to the airways.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310        Date:    Mar 19, 2014                         n°:   2473      



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