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Black Females More Likely Than Black Males to Exercise by Colleen Fleiss on  February 26, 2021 at 9:41 PM Black women and girls engage in more exercise and better eating habits than Black men and boys when faced with discrimination, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. "In this study, Black women and girls didn't just survive in the face of racism, they actually responded in a positive manner, in terms of their health behavior," said lead researcher Frederick Gibbons, PhD, with the University of Connecticut. "This gives us some hope th...

Wearable Activity Trackers and Smartphone Fitness Apps Promote Physical Activity Levels by Iswarya on  December 22, 2020 at 11:14 AM the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The size of the effect is small to moderate, but it may be worth offering them on prescription to motivated patients, given the importance for health of increasing daily physical activity by any amount, say the researchers. Globally, more than a quarter of adults don't meet recommended physical activity levels. Physical inactivity represents a leading cause of death worldwide and is thought to cost billi...

Exercise During Adolescence may Prevent Schizophrenia by Colleen Fleiss on  December 16, 2020 at 10:05 PM During adolescence, low intensity exercise was found to have protective effects in a mouse model of schizophrenia, said University of Tsukuba researchers. Although schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a neurodevelopmental disorder, environmental factors are known to play an important role in the disease onset and progression. In a study published this month in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have r...