Category Archives: Exercise – Fitness

Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Leukocyte Telomere length in Women: Author Interview

Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Leukocyte Telomere length in Women Author Interview: Mengmeng Du, MSc Doctoral candidate Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health 677 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 What are the main findings of the study? We … Continue reading

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Relationships of occupational and non-occupational physical activity to abdominal obesity: Author Interview

Relationships of occupational and non-occupational physical activity to abdominal obesity Author Interview : Jeremy Steeves Ph.D., MPH candidate 2012 Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University 624 N Broadway Baltimore, MD 21205 What are the main findings of the study? We … Continue reading

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Hepatic Steatosis and Low Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Youth With Type 2 Diabetes : Dr. Wittmeier

Hepatic Steatosis and Low Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Youth With Type 2 Diabetes Author Interview: Kristy Wittmeier PT, MSc, PhD Physiotherapy Innovation & Best Practice Coordinator Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Background There is evidence that higher levels of … Continue reading

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Physical activity reduces the effect of the ‘obesity gene’

The genetic predisposition to obesity due to the ‘fat mass and obesity associated’ (FTO) gene can be substantially reduced by living a physically active lifestyle according to new research by a large international collaboration, led by Ruth Loos from the … Continue reading

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Effects of exercise on meal-related gut hormone signals

07/07/11, Clearwater Beach, FL.  Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that alterations of … Continue reading

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