News tagged with exercise influence

Pre-teens make their own decisions on diet, exercise and weight-loss

Eleven-year olds definitely have their own opinions about diet, exercise and weight-loss; and it is mostly their opinions — not those of their parents — that affect their lifestyle changes. Nevertheless, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Muscling in on type 2 diabetes

Research by kinesiology investigator Dustin Hittel, PhD, has proven that muscle in extremely obese individuals produces large amounts of a protein called myostatin, which normally inhibits muscle growth--suggesting that for ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Study takes novel 'back-casting' approach to transform cities for healthier lives

Researchers at four of the country's leading universities are embarking on a low carbon engineering project that could transform the way cities are built, as well as the way we live in them, by taking a novel 'back-casting' ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Black carbon, tropospheric ozone most likely driving Earth's tropical belt expansion

Black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, both manmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics further polew ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Murdoch scandal follows classic media baron script

(AP) -- If the phone hacking scandal gripping Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire has a familiar ring, it might be because you've heard the story before. Scrappy outsider turns modest newspaper business into international ...

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investors play a crucial role in sustainable palm oil

WWF is urging investors to do more to promote sustainable palm oil, backed by findings from a new survey released during a high-level meeting of investors and producers in Singapore.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How does the global financial crisis affect consumer decision making?

Consumers who feel financially deprived are more likely to seek scarce products, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students must trust the source of emergency alerts in order to act quickly, new research shows

(Phys.org) -- In the wake of the deadly shooting this month at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., experts from the University at Buffalo offer perspectives from their research into ways to encourage students to immediately ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Study reveals impact of socioeconomic factors on the racial gap in life expectancy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in factors such as income, education and marital status could contribute overwhelmingly to the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States, according ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shifting sands: New model predicts how sand and other granular materials flow

Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model. From far away, flowing sand resembles a liquid, streaming down the center of an hourglass ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Runner's high motivated the evolution of exercise

In the last century something unexpected happened: humans became sedentary. We traded in our active lifestyles for a more immobile existence. But these were not the conditions under which we evolved. David Raichlen from the ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The stress of undress: Public change rooms can cause body anxieties for women

Sweating in the gym, surrounded by others, pounding to the beat in group exercise class has become the norm for many women. But when it comes to the experience of changing in the locker room, the acts of disrobing, ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 12


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