How Much Exercise is Enough?

How much exercise do we need now that many of us are working from home. It is obvious than sitting at a desk all day is not good for our health. Now many more people are working from home. This means that they are spending the entire day sitting. Therefore you might simply ask how much exercise do we need to counteract the inactivity of sitting at a desk? How Much Exercise Answered A recent study in the Lancet shines some light on the impact of exercise on sitting. The results are based on a sample of about 1 million

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COVID19 Lockdowns, Gym Closed? How to Keep a Routine

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COVID19 have you locked down and locked out of the gym? You don't necessarily need equipment to stay in shape. There are a lot of things that you can do to keep your exercise routine during COVID19 without having to go to the gym. Think of doing such things as pushups, setups, crunches. Add to that such things as doing planks. You can add to that some cardio by doing some fast walking and during your fast walking you can add wrist and ankle weights. Just because you can't workout at the gym doesn't mean you can't work out at

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Lactic Acid, Muscle Pain and Testosterone Production

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I bet that you never made a link between the pain that you get when you exert your muscles and an increase in your testosterone production. Well for you men over the age of 30, I have good news. You can continue to have a healthy sex drive as you age. Just hear me out... Lactic acid, or lactate, forms in the muscles through metabolism. You might be familiar with the presence of lactic acid when you feel that burning muscle pain. That sensation is caused by the muscles lowering the pH levels around the muscles. No Pain - No

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Weight Loss Made Simple but not Easy

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Weight Loss made Simple, but never easy Any of us who have every tried to lose weight know that after we hit our 40s, weight loss is not an easy task. But it can be simple. Fad Diets I have spoken to people who have been through the fad diet mill and they all say the same thing. That is, that if they are able to follow the fad, and that is a BIG "if", then they report some short term success. However, each and every person I have spoken to says the same thing.  They end of gaining it

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What is Health?

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What is Health? What is Health? In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." WHO, 1948. In 1986, the WHO added "A resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities." So it has expanded to include social and personal resources. But health has been defined beyond this definition. Researchers claim that health is related to resilience and defined it as the ability to adapt to new

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