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October 17th, 2012 - Posted in Exercise - Tags: muscle cramps
Muscle cramps are common during very intense exercise and occur far less often during less-intense training, because the most common cause of muscle cramps in exercisers is muscle damage from all-out pressure on the muscles. CAUSE: MUSCLE DAMAGE The leading theory is that most cases of muscle cramps in serious exercisers and athletes are caused […]
Continue ReadingOctober 17th, 2012 - Posted in Exercise - Tags: exercise, heart
“JUST ONE DAY OF EXERCISE CAN PROTECT THE HEART AGAINST…(A HEART ATTACK)…. and this protection is upheld with months of exercise, making exercise one of the few sustainable preconditioning stimuli” (Journal of Applied Physiology, September 2011). Wow. Heart attacks occur when a plaque suddenly breaks off from the walls of an artery which supplies blood […]
Continue ReadingOctober 17th, 2012 - Posted in Nutriton - Tags: chocolate
A recent symposium at the American College of Sports Medicine 58th Annual Meeting June 2, 2011 and other recent studies show that chocolate improves endurance training in mice and humans. Taking small amounts of a chocolate extract, called epicatechin, twice a day for two weeks shortened recovery from intense exercise and increased endurance in mice […]
Continue ReadingOctober 17th, 2012 - Posted in Exercise - Tags: exercise
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts show that, after just one day of not exercising, your body loses some of its ability to respond to insulin (Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental, July 2011). Inability to respond to insulin is the cause of most cases of diabetes that has the potential to cause premature death in one […]
Continue ReadingOctober 17th, 2012 - Posted in Exercise, Nutriton - Tags: caffeine, chocolate
In January 2004, the World Anti-Doping Agency removed caffeine from its prohibited drug list to allow athletes to take coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa, guarana, cola drinks, energy drinks and so forth. Researchers have now measured the caffeine concentration in 20,686 urine samples obtained for doping control from 2004 to 2008. They found that 75 percent […]
Continue ReadingOctober 17th, 2012 - Posted in Health - Tags: skin cancer
Any direct exposure of the skin to sunlight increases risk for skin cancer. The sun emits ultraviolet rays that are classified mostly into UVA and UVB. Most sun screens protect against only UVB rays, which are the primary cause of sunburn and skin cancer, but UVA rays penetrate deeper into your skin, to cause wrinkling, […]
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