Not only are you healthier as a result, your comprehensive exercise program, which includes cardiovascular and weight-bearing exercise, is preventing further weight gain and allowing you to maintain muscle mass so your metabolism does not drop significantly as you get older.
He said falls could be prevented by measures such as encouraging the elderly to take weight-bearing exercise.
Strength training also has positive benefits on bone maintenance and stability that eclipse the potential benefits of aerobic weight-bearing exercise.
Regular weight-bearing exercise, including running and walking, is important too.
It says that since 1990 it has filed 93 cases challenging false and misleading weight-loss claims involving over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements, commercial weight-loss centers, weight-loss devices and exercise equipment.
Five years before his campaign for president, the then-280-pound, 5-foot-11 governor embarked on a weight-loss and exercise program.
"For years I had been reading up on 'This is how you lose weight -- nutrition, exercise, '" he says.
But, increasingly, scientists are finding that a little weight training - and regular exercise - can help prevent some disabilities associated with age.
For cardiovascular exercise, weight-bearing, higher-impact activities such as walking, jogging and aerobics are better than nonweight-bearing or lower-impact exercise such as swimming, cycling and elliptical machines, which put less strain on your muscles and bones.
He said people should not focus on having to go to the gym to lose weight, but should build exercise - such as walking - into their everyday lives.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Belviq (lorcaserin hydrochloride), as an addition to a reduced-calorie diet and exercise, for chronic weight management.
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The only sure way to maintain a healthy weight is through long-term lifestyle changes involving both eating habits and exercise.
Throughout her personal weight-loss journey, she learned to get over her childhood dislike of exercise.
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She says she has quit smoking and enrolled in diabetes-education classes, which are helping her exercise and lose weight.
In her much-discussed new book, "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, " Annie Murphy Paul describes the ever-expanding efforts of researchers to determine how maternal diet, weight, stress, exercise and other factors can influence fetal development.
Almost everyone could stand to get more exercise and eat a more-healthy diet, and the healthy-weight partner can help by being a role model.
Lorcaserin, brand name Belviq (pronounced BEL-VEEK), is conditionally approved in the U.S. for chronic weight management in obese or overweight adults when used together with a reduced-calorie diet and exercise.
Yanagimachi said he doesn't know why the mice gained weight, since they have the same food intake and same amount of exercise as the non-cloned mice.
Ehrlich and her colleagues are currently studying a weight-loss program, which includes weekly telephone coaching sessions, specifically tailored to help women with infants exercise and eat well.
Finally, as with any cholesterol-lowering medication or supplement, eating a heart healthy diet, getting regular exercise and weight loss when appropriate should always be the first step toward lowering cholesterol.
This should include vigorous (jogging) and moderate aerobic exercise (a brisk walk), as well as twice-weekly activities, such as weight training, which maintain or increase muscular strength and endurance.
As a doctor focused on obesity and nutrition, Dr Garvey maintains that the only real way to lose weight is the boring, old-fashioned, unsatisfying and ultimately successful method: eat fewer calories than you burn through exercise - not digestion.
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