Category — Health

Research shows that women who want to lose weight should ditch their diets and learn to relax instead.
At the end of a two-year study, women who followed a programme of yoga and meditation had lost weight and kept it off, while those who focused purely on exercise and nutrition had not. The ‘relaxed’ women were [...]

How To Tips : helping people who got heart attack with chest compressions
You’re about to catch a train when a fellow passenger starts to complain of chest pain. You are worried he’s having a heart attack.
You call an ambulance, but next thing you know the man has collapsed – and he looks dead.
The only thing [...]

Study find that interval training burns fat and improves fitness more quickly than constant but moderately intensive physical activity, according to research by a University of Guelph researcher.

The study by Jason Talanian, a PhD student in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, was published recently in the Journal of Applied Physiology. It found [...]

Exercising improves body image, even if it hasn’t shifted the pounds
The simple act of doing some exercise convinces people they look better – even if it has actually made no difference. Researchers discovered we believe we look healthier after working out despite the fact it may not have been enough to make us any fitter. [...]