Health Tip: Promote a Healthy School (HealthDay)

Without becoming the school geek, there are things you can do to promote exercise and healthy eating at your school.

• Health Tip: Promote a Healthy School (HealthDay)

Higher Levels of Common Daily Activity Associated With Lower Risk of Death

Older adults who expend more energy through any daily activity, including non exercise activity, have a lower rate of death than adults who are less active.

• Higher Levels of Common Daily Activity Associated With Lower Risk of Death

Understanding What People With Arthritis Believe About Exercise

Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States. In total, the treatment and toll of this progressive disease costs our country about $86 billion per year, a figure expected to rise as Baby Boomers age. Among the many approaches to disease management, exercise has been shown to reduce pain, delay disability, and improve physical function, muscle strength, and quality of life. [click link for full article]

• Understanding What People With Arthritis Believe About Exercise

ACE Recommends Strength Training to Address Obesity

One more way to steer the overweight children toward an active lifestyle is through strength training.

• ACE Recommends Strength Training to Address Obesity

Benacquista Galleries To Launch The Tolman Diet And Wellness Center

Benacquista Galleries,Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BAQG) announced today the launch of the TolmanDiet and Wellness Center. Benacquista President Jim Price stated, "We are pleased to announce thepre-launch of The Tolman Diet and Wellness Center,http://www.thetolmandiet.com. As a companion to the Farmacist DeskReference, Don Tolman is writing the Tolman Diet Book which Benacquistawill publish. [click link for full article]

• Benacquista Galleries To Launch The Tolman Diet And Wellness Center

Relay Team Of Twelve Americans Complete 3,200 Mile Journey Across The United States As Part Of ...

On July 18th, Sportline, America'sNo. 1 brand of pedometers and walking accessories, will wrap up SportlineSteps Across America, a Wal-Mart program that is part of their "Every DayWell-Being" initiative dedicated to spreading the word about the benefitsof walking with a pedometer as part of a fit, active lifestyle. The grandfinale will take place at Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California from11 a.m. to 3 p.m. [click link for full article]

• Relay Team Of Twelve Americans Complete 3,200 Mile Journey Across The United States As Part Of ...

Ankle Flexibility Gains During an 18-day Intensive Stretching Regimen

The ankle flexibility gains the participants enjoyed were retained for at least three weeks after their intensive exercise program ceased.

• Ankle Flexibility Gains During an 18-day Intensive Stretching Regimen

We Eat Healthily And Exercise A Lot, Say America's Obese

According to a new survey of 11,000 people carried out by Thomson Medstat, over three-quarters of obese Americans claim they have healthy diets. 40% of obese people in the USA say they do vigorous exercise three times a week or more. The researchers in this study wondered how many of the USA's obese citizens really understood what is meant by a healthy diet and regular, vigorous physical activity. [click link for full article]

• We Eat Healthily And Exercise A Lot, Say America's Obese

Get Slim With A Little Help From Your Friend

Reaching for that gallon of icecream? Reach for your computer mouse instead and do what many successfuldieters do to stick to their diet plan: buddy up to slim down. Clinical studies show getting social support by "Buddying Up" increasesweight loss success by encouraging dieters to stick to their diet andlifestyle improvement plans. More and more dieters are finding their BuddySupport network online at newly launched BuddySlim. [click link for full article]

• Get Slim With A Little Help From Your Friend

New Foundation To Kick Italian Science To Soccer Heights

The Human Health Foundation(HHF), a nonprofit organization designed to develop and fund biomedicalresearch in Italy, will be introduced on July 15th during this year'sannual Spoleto Festival by Antonio Giordano, MD, Ph.D., president andfounder of the Sbarro Health Research Organization (http://www.shro.org). [click link for full article]

• New Foundation To Kick Italian Science To Soccer Heights

Strong Reasons to Start Strength Training

Strength training, whether you use weight training machines, elastic resistance bands, dumbbells, barbells or simply the weight of your body, offers many health benefits.

• Strong Reasons to Start Strength Training