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Fact File

Why exercise?

Health: Library - 10 May 2007
We all know we need exercise, but what activities will keep us fit and healthy and how often do we need to do them.

Tags: health, exercise-and-fitness

Fact File

Balancing your diet

Health: Library - 25 April 2007
What is a balanced diet? Dietitian Sharon Natoli explains the basics of good nutrition.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition

Golf: a game of life and death

Health: The Pulse - 04 September 2008
Playing golf can add five years to your life, say Swedish researchers. It's not so much how you swing the club, but how much walking you do.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, older-people, sports-injuries

Fitness fix

Health: Your Stories - 22 July 2008
Many of us feel like we don't have time to exercise. Not Ingrid Arnott. She's a working mum who fits it in 10 times a week - and loves every minute.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, womens-health

Beating tiredness

Health: Healthy Living - 22 July 2008
Effective treatments for tiredness could be closer to hand than you realise.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, stress, sleep

Neuromuscular training reduces injuries

Health Minutes - 21 July 2008
Training individual muscles and nerves before playing a sport can reduce injuries, say Finnish researchers.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, sports-injuries

Heart checks for athletes?

Health Minutes - 21 July 2008
Should a person thinking of taking up competitive sport have their heart checked first? Experts are divided.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, heart-disease, sports-injuries

Stronger musles, longer life

Health Minutes - 21 July 2008
Being strong might predict a longer life. Muscle strength seems to protect against cancer and all combined causes of death, say researchers.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, cancer, heart-disease, older-people

Let's get virtual

Health: The Pulse - 10 July 2008
Interactive tennis, golf and soccer - idle entertainments, or are they actually good exercise? UK researchers put them through their paces.

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, exercise-and-fitness

Get fit to prevent cancer

Health Minutes - 07 July 2008
A study of 38,000 men has found that unless you're extremely obese, cardiorespiratory fitness can abolish the risk of dying of cancer associated with being overweight.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, cancer, obesity

Weight training: the elixir of youth

Health Minutes - 07 July 2008
Scientists have discovered that weight training is an anti-ageing treatment - it can rejuvenate old and damaged muscle tissue.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, older-people

The winter fitness survival guide

Health: Features - 24 June 2008
Does your fitness routine go into hibernation during the colder months? It doesn't have to: there are plenty of ways to stay active and prevent weight gain during winter.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, mental-health

The best way to burn fat

Health: Healthy Living - 24 June 2008
Finding the 'best' exercise to burn fat is less important than keeping at it.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, obesity

Joining the 100 club

Health: The Pulse - 19 June 2008
Forget the baby boom, the fastest growing age segment in Australia's population is those aged 100 and over. How can you make it - and in good health?

Tags: aged-care, exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, older-people

Goodbye to the puffer?

Health: The Pulse - 05 June 2008
Breathing exercises lessen the need for asthma medication, and Australian researchers have produced an online video showing how to do them.

Tags: alternative-medicine, exercise-and-fitness, asthma, pharmaceuticals

Exercise for diabetes

Health Minutes - 29 April 2008
What's best for people with type 2 diabetes: aerobic or resistance exercise?

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diabetes

How to keep weight off

Health Minutes - 29 April 2008
A review of the available evidence from weight loss trials shows it's possible to get weight off and keep it off.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, obesity

Pedometers and exercise

Health Minutes - 02 April 2008
An analysis of the best available trials of pedometers has concluded they do make a difference to exercise levels, but only under certain circumstances.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness

Keeping weight off

Health Minutes - 02 April 2008
Losing weight is hard; keeping it off is harder still. Can it be done, and how? US researchers compared some strategies.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, obesity

Smokers: how old are your lungs?

Health Minutes - 25 March 2008
Smokers who are told that their lungs have aged more than the rest of their body are more likely to quit.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, nicotine

How to choose a gym

Health: Consumer Guides - 25 March 2008
Choosing a gym can be difficult. Here's how to sort through the contracts, classes and confusion.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, healthcare-facilities

Sports injuries: how to prevent them

Health: Features - 05 March 2008
Don't let injuries cut your sporting season short - simple steps can keep you going strong.

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, exercise-and-fitness

Diabetes may follow heart attack

Health Minutes - 20 February 2008
Could a heart attack be a sign you're heading for diabetes? An Italian study has shown that it could.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, diabetes, heart-disease

Maintaining weight loss in kids

Health Minutes - 20 February 2008
Researchers have found that like adults, when children are put on a weight loss program they fail to keep off the weight, and need a program that maintains their weight loss.

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, obesity

Beat the bulge, drop the drugs

Health: Your Stories - 07 February 2008
Alex Bennett lost 15 kilograms in six months. The bonus? He no longer needs medication for blood pressure, gastric reflux or cholesterol.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, mens-health, obesity

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