Increasing your physical activity is good for your health, but the benefits are greater when more of it is of at least moderate intensity, a study suggests. Researchers from Cambridge University and ...

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Moderate-intensity exercise can help even extremely obese older adults improve their ability to perform common daily activities and remain independent, according to researchers at Wake Forest Baptist ...

The intensity of physical activity is considered an important but so far vaguely defined health factor. The WHO assumes that ...

Most of us know how strenuous exercise can result in aching limbs the following day. But now scientists have discovered that the benefits to the brain can also be felt a day later. University College ...

Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent searching for cures for chronic diseases. But there is a natural antidote that costs nothing and is available to everyone - exercise. There is now definitive ...

The study, published in the BMJ, is the largest research project in the world looking at lifestyle interventions in pregnancy, involving more than 50 researchers from 41 institutions*. Its results ...

Dragging yourself to the gym once a week, or even vacuuming the house from top to bottom, are not the best ways to improve your fitness, say researchers. Moderate exercise fitted into daily life is ...

Exercise improves quality of life and sleep in ovarian cancer patients, with moderate and significant benefits, respectively. Methodological variability and high heterogeneity in trials highlight the ...

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