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Sports & Medicine

Short-Term Cognitive Boost From Exercise May Last For 24 hours

December 12, 2024 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

The short-term boost our brains get after we do exercise persists throughout the following day, suggests a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers. Previous research in a laboratory setting has shown that people's cognitive performance improves in the hours after exercise, but how long this benefit lasts is unknown. The new study, published in the … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Winning Combination For Sports-Related Shoulder Injuries

September 13, 2023 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Starting a robust exercise program sooner after surgery could prevent patients with dislocated shoulders from sustaining a repeat injury and help them return to sport faster. University of Adelaide researchers spent three years analysing evidence from 3,600 existing studies and found a tailored exercise program commencing three to six weeks after surgery was the best … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Measurement of Skeletal Muscle Mass using the Bioelectrical Impedance Technic in Athletes

September 13, 2023 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Bioelectrical impedance analysis is a method used for estimating body composition. This method estimates body composition based on the degree of current flow in the body, allowing noninvasive and rapid measurement, and is used in home-use body composition monitors and other devices. However, existing estimation methods might not be sufficient for accurately assessing skeletal … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Researchers Identify a Drug that Mimics the Effects of Exercise on Muscle and Bone in Mice

September 24, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Maintaining a regular workout routine can help you look and feel great -- but did you know that exercise also helps maintain your muscles and bones? People who are unable to engage in physical activity experience weakening of the muscles and bones, a condition known as locomotor frailty. Recently, researchers in Japan have identified a new drug that may aid in the treatment of … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Repeated Exposure to Major Disasters has long-term Mental Health Impacts

January 25, 2022 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Repeated exposure to major disasters does not make people mentally stronger, a recent study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health found: individuals who have been repeatedly exposed to major disasters show a reduction in mental health scores. Additionally, the research team found that the more experience the individuals had with such events, the lower … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Simone Biles Withdraws From Final All-around Gynastics at Tokyo Olympics

July 29, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Defending champion Simone Biles has withdrawn from the final of the Olympic individual all-around gymnastics competition due to ongoing concerns over her mental health, USA Gymnastics confirmed on Wednesday. "After further medical evaluation, Simone Biles has withdrawn from the final individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games, in order to focus on her mental … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Small Study Shows Heart Damage After COVID-19 Uncommon in College

May 28, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

In a small study, researchers found college athletes who contracted COVID-19 rarely had cardiac complications. Most had mild COVID symptoms that did not require treatment, and in a small percentage of those with abnormal cardiac testing, there was no evidence of heart damage on special imaging tests. All athletes returned to sports without any health concerns, according to new … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Blood Flow

Leg Muscle Action Assists Blood Flow Independently of Age

April 29, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Chronic lower-limb edema (CLE) -- the permanent accumulation of fluid in the leg -- often occurs in elderly people. The condition leads to various physical and mental problems, including difficulty in walking or moving, fatigue and anxiety. One cause of CLE is the lack of physical activity, which is associated with a decrease in muscle pump action. The latter refers to the leg … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Diets Rich in Nitrates from Vegetables Improve Muscle Function

April 10, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Diets rich in nitrates from vegetables improve muscle function, according to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition. In 3,759 participants in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab), those with the highest nitrate consumption, mainly from vegetable sources, performed with more strength and speed in the physical tests when compared to those who ate … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

For Better Migraine Treatment, Try Adding Some Downward Dogs

March 30, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Adding yoga to your regularly prescribed migraine treatment may be better than medication alone, according to a study published in the May 6, 2020, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The new research suggests yoga may help people with migraines have headaches that happen less often, don't last as long and are less … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Physical Activity Helps Curb Low-grade Inflammation in Children

March 30, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

According to a recent Finnish study, accumulating more brisk and vigorous physical activity can curb adiposity-induced low-grade inflammation. The study also reported that diet quality had no independent association with low-grade inflammation. The findings, based on the ongoing Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) Study conducted at the University of Eastern … [Read more...]

Asthma & Allergies, Sports & Medicine

sweat

Sweat, bleach and gym air quality: Chemical reactions make new airborne chemicals

January 7, 2021 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

One sweaty, huffing, exercising person emits as many chemicals from their body as up to five sedentary people, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study. And notably, those human emissions, including amino acids from sweat or acetone from breath, chemically combine with bleach cleaners to form new airborne chemicals with unknown impacts to indoor air … [Read more...]

Nutrition & Wellness, Sports & Medicine

lead exposure

800 million children still exposed to lead

October 5, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

As many as 800 million children have dangerously high lead values in their blood. The neurotoxin can cause permanent brain damage. The huge international numbers come from a new report from Pure Earth and UNICEF. Pure Earth works to solve pollution problems that can be harmful to humans. "A child's earliest years of life are characterized by rapid growth and brain … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Children use both brain hemispheres to understand language, unlike adults

September 9, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Infants and young children have brain with a superpower, of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. Whereas adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or the other of their brain's two hemispheres, youngsters use both the right and left hemispheres to do the same task. The finding suggests a possible reason why children appear to … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

breathing

To improve students’ mental health, study finds, teach them to breathe

August 7, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

When college students learn specific techniques for managing stress and anxiety, their wellbeing improves across a range of measures and leads to better mental health, a new Yale study finds. The research team evaluated three classroom-based wellness training programs that incorporate breathing and emotional intelligence strategies, finding that two led to improvements in … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

loneliness

Loneliness Alters Your Brain’s Social Network

June 29, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Social media sites aren't the only things that keep track of your social network -- your brain does, too. But loneliness alters how the brain represents relationships, according to new research published in JNeurosci. A brain region called the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) maintains a structured map of a person's social circles, based on closeness. People that struggle … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

running a marathon

Want to turn back time? Try running a marathon

January 14, 2020 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

The new year means it's time to set resolutions for 2020 and new research from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests running a marathon for the first time could have several health benefits. The study found that for first-time marathon runners, training and completion of the marathon was associated with reductions in blood pressure and aortic stiffening in … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Skiers have lower incidence of depression

Skiers have lower incidence of depression and vascular dementia — but not Alzheimer’s

December 10, 2019 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Half as many diagnosed with depression, a delayed manifestation of Parkinson's, a reduced risk of developing vascular dementia -- but not Alzheimer's. These connections were discovered by researchers when they compared 200,000 people who had participated in a long-distance cross-country ski race between 1989 and 2010 with a matched cohort of the general population. The results … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

young women's running capacity

Testosterone level boosts young women’s running capacity

October 18, 2019 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

A rise in the level of the male hormone testosterone significantly boosts young physically active women's capacity to run for longer, reveals the first study of its kind, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Testosterone also increases muscle mass and leanness, even though body weight doesn't change, the findings show. The impact of the hormone on … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Keeping fit

Keeping fit is more than physical: It’s a state of mind

May 1, 2019 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

According to a new study differences in what motivates individuals and how they self-regulate behavior influence how they keep fit. The study appearing in the journal Heliyon, published by Elsevier, associates personal characteristics with whether people are likely to prefer solo or group exercise activities, CrossFit® training, resistance training, or team sports, how … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

pelvic floor muscle exercises

How do pelvic floor muscle exercises reduce overactive bladder symptoms?

October 24, 2018 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a common form of urinary incontinence that is widely treated with pelvic floor muscle (PFM) training. A new laboratory study lends insights into how PFM training works: by reducing contractions of the detrusor muscle of the bladder, reports the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the official journal of the Association of … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Dipa Karmakar

Dipa Karmakar Is All Set To Turn The Tables Around With Her Most Recent Strike!

July 9, 2018 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Women Fitness congratulates the star of the hour “Dipa Karmakar” for her incredible comeback performance at the World Challenge Cup in Turkey. We are proud to announce that she will be on the cover of our Special Anniversary Issue this August. Subscribe here to get the first digital copy as soon as it’s released! It may not have been her signature ‘vault of death’ or … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Promote Unhealthy Food

Top Sports Leagues Heavily Promote Unhealthy Food And Beverages, New Study Finds

March 27, 2018 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

The majority of food and beverages marketed through multi-million-dollar television and online sports sponsorships are unhealthy -- and may be contributing to the escalating obesity epidemic among children and adolescents in the U.S., warn social scientists from NYU School of Medicine and other national academic health institutions. The descriptive study publishes online in the … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

lupine protein beverage

Athletes and health aficionados: The lupine protein beverage

October 6, 2017 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

With its intensive colors and many blossoms, the lupine looks like an ornamental plant. Yet, the tall lupine is far too good to be used decoratively as the plant's seeds contain nutritious proteins. However, it is rather complicated to make lupines edible for humans. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV have now developed a … [Read more...]

Nutrition & Wellness, Sports & Medicine

Muscles

Muscles can ‘ask’ for the energy they need

July 6, 2017 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Muscles require energy to perform all of the movements that we do in a day, and now, for the first time, researchers at the Texas A&M College of Medicine have shown how muscles "request" more energy from fat storage tissues in fruit fly models. They also discovered that this circuit is dependent on circadian rhythms, which could have implications for obesity in humans. … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Kelly Osborne

SPIN, THE ORIGINAL PING PONG CLUB, WILL BRING ITS HIGH ENERGY SHOWS TO THE STREET TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL PING PONG DAY

April 11, 2017 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

An Experience “United by Ping Pong” NEW YORK, NY (April 3rd, 2017) – In honor of National Ping Pong Day (April 6th, 2017), SPiN, the dynamic brand of social ping pong clubs with a devoted purpose to be the most unique collision of sport, culture, and creativity, announces a momentous series of activations, programming, and giving back. The series will be rolling out on this … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Rise Nation lifecycle

Rise Against Aids: Rise Nation Partners with Lifecycle

March 4, 2017 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Rise Nation, the first 30-minute, VersaClimber group fitness class, has recently announced its partnership with AIDS/Lifecycle, a fully supported, seven-day bike ride that raises awareness about HIV/AIDS. AIDS/LifeCycle is a fully supported, 7-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise money and awareness in the fight against HIV/AIDS. AIDS/LifeCycle 2017 … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Common Antioxidant May Guard Against Liver Disease

January 9, 2017 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

A common antioxidant found in human breast milk and foods like kiwi fruit can protect against nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in the offspring of obese mice, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. "Pyrroloquinoline quinone, or PQQ, is a natural antioxidant found in soil and many foods and enriched in human breast milk," … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

Serena Williams

Tennis Superstar Serena Williams pens down a powerful open letter to women

December 1, 2016 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

Tennis star Serena Williams penned a powerful letter addressed to 'all incredible women who strive for excellence', talking about the barriers that still hold women athletes back. Published in the Porter Magazine’s Incredible Women of 2016 issue, Serena tackled sexism in sport in the letter. "When I was growing up, I had a dream. I’m sure you did, too. My dream wasn’t like … [Read more...]

Sports & Medicine

bacterial infections

Does physical activity lower the risk of bacterial infections?

September 26, 2016 By Namita Nayyar (WF Team)

The risk of bacterial infections is known to be affected by physical activity, but little information is available regarding the more serious infections caused by bacteria. In this study, the investigators examined the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and suspected bacterial infections during a one-year follow up. Suspected bacterial infections were … [Read more...]

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