Regular exercise is safe for heart failure patients and may slightly lower their risk of death or hospitalization, according to results from the largest and most comprehensive clinical trial to examine the effects of exercise in chronic heart failure patients.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, also found that heart [...]

Young female athletes could have yet another reason to get plenty of vitamin D. The importance of vitamin D for calcium absorption and host of other health needs is well documented, now, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, researcher finds that teenage girls with higher vitamin [...]

A new study finds that fat increases the bodies inflammatory activity. On the other hand, being fit lowers inflammation.
An accepted market of the inflammatory activity is the total white blood cell count. A high count is a risk factor for hear disease or other serious illness. according to researchers at the study researchersat [...]

Even moderate exercise had a beneficial impact
New research from researchers at the University of Melbourne adds to other research that exercise can improve cognitive function in adults with mild memory problems.  The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association
Researchers assessed the effect exercise on 138 volunteers with mild cognitive impairment.  The [...]

Researchers testing something athletes have known, probably since the first Olympics, that a good massage can speed recovery after a sports injury have found scientific evidence of the healing effects of massage.
The scientists have determined that immediate cyclic compression of muscles after intense exercise reduced swelling and muscle damage.  The study used animals.
“There is potential [...]

Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger, according to a study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Older folks who did endurance exercise training for about a year got metabolically much younger hearts as a reward. By one metabolic measure, women benefited more than [...]

Keeping a food diary can double a person’s weight says the findings from one of the largest and longest running weight loss maintenance trials ever conducted.  The study is published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
the study is one of the few studies to recruit a large percentage of African Americans as study participants [...]