Category Archives: Exercise

Obesity Boosts Advanced Prostate Cancer Risk

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Greg Asseff

It’s long been known that being heavily overweight or obese has the ability to increase your risk of contracting a wide variety of chronic and/or debilitating diseases.

Combine the health risks associated with being overweight with poor dietary habits and a lack of regular physical exercise and the probability of contracting a potentially life threatening disease increase even further.

One such disease that may increase in probability, in relation to obese men, is advanced prostate cancer, according to a new obesity and prostate cancer study published in the medical journal Annals of Oncology. The study sheds a little more light on the nature of the link between obesity and prostate cancer, a relationship that has proven to be quite complex.

Ultimately, the researchers concluded that being obese could increase your risk of advanced prostate cancer, defined as cancer that originated in the prostate and has spread to other areas of the body.

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Irisin: The Key to Beating Obesity?

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Greg Asseff

With literally millions and millions of individuals throughout the world continually battling excess body fat and obesity concerns, there is no shortage of “so called” weight loss experts, weight loss approaches, and weight loss “miracle pills” to consider. This being said, the most safe and effective approach to weight loss is living a health lifestyle that is filled with regular physical activity, a nutritionally well balanced whole foods diet, and plenty of rest, relaxation, and sleep.

While most weight loss experts will agree with this approach researchers at Harvard Medical School may have just made an astounding discovery that could spell drastic changes to the way in which we approach weight loss, obesity and related diseases such as diabetes. The researchers discovered a previously unknown hormone that they’re dubbing irisin.

Early clinical trials involving mice injected with the Irisin hormone have already shown that irisin could deliver miraculous results in terms of weight loss and blood sugar regulation. Weight loss seekers: Could this be what you’ve been waiting for.

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Keeping a New Year’s Resolution? 5 Tips for Joining a Fitness Center

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Greg Asseff

A fairly high percentage of individuals consistently make New’s Years Resolutions each and every year. In addition, the topics and resolutions themselves tend to be diverse and cover a broad range. However, if physical exercise, weight loss, and living an overall healthier lifestyle are components of your New Year’s Resolution, you’re probably trying to decide whether it’s better to work out at a fitness center or at home.

Although performing your exercise routines at home is certainly a viable option as it is convenient, private and totally viable for real fitness gains, many individuals enjoy the added motivation, support and equipment selection that come with a fitness center. However, not all health and fitness centers are created equally, and there are fitness center tips you should know if you’re considering becoming a member of one.

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Study Links High Fat Diet, Brain Damage, Obesity

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Greg Asseff

A fairly large percentage of individuals, at some point throughout their life, have gained excess body weight. This being true for so many individuals, why are some more likely to lose the excess weight while others aren’t?

For individuals where the weight gain is not related to a physical medical condition, it’s well known that effectively losing weight and thereafter, maintaining a healthier weight level is just as much a mental challenge as it is a physical one.

Without proper motivation, focus, and the implementation of a sound mental strategy, it can be all too easy to succumb to the temptation of returning to your old eating habits. Now, a clinical study on high fat diets is pointing to a very concrete reason as to why that may be.

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How to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolution

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Greg Asseff

New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and if you are like many of the millions of other Americans, you have probably already spent quite a bit of time thinking about what your New Year’s Resolutions will be for the upcoming year.

It is human nature for a large majority of the population to look forward to the upcoming year with optimism and hope. For this reason, it is also easy to define a set of goals that you would like to change about yourself.

For example, start a weight loss program, exercise more, quit smoking, get promoted to a higher position at work, go back to school, and so on. This being said, literally millions of people define their New Year’s Resolutions year in and year out and thereafter, fail to achieve them.

In fact, the unfortunate truth is that there is a high probability that the majority of New Year’s Resolutions that are made each and every year will not be achieved, let alone even survive through the first couple weeks in January.