For the first time, there's evidence that a behavior change—lowering blood pressure—may help to lower the risk of developing dementia.
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Physical and Mental Health - Exercise, Fitness and Activity
Healthy body, healthy mind! Physical Exercise, Fitness, Running, Jogging, Gym and Activity. Twitter Hashtag: #GymEd Curated by Peter Mellow |
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For the first time, there's evidence that a behavior change—lowering blood pressure—may help to lower the risk of developing dementia.
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About this course: Learners who complete Science of Exercise will have an improved physiological understanding of how your body responds to exercise, and will be able to identify behaviors, choices, and environments that impact your health and training. You will explore a number of significant adjustments required by your body in order to properly respond to the physical stress of exercise, including changes in carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism, nutritional considerations, causes of muscle soreness & fatigue, and the effectiveness and dangers of performance enhancing drugs. Active learning assessments will challenge you to apply this new knowledge via nutrition logs, heart rate monitoring, calculations of your total daily caloric expenditure and body mass index (BMI). Finally, learners will examine the scientific evidence for the health benefits of exercise including the prevention and treatment of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity (weight loss), depression, and dementia.
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High cardiovascular fitness in midlife is linked to health benefits in older age.
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In a Swedish study, middle-aged women with a high level of cardiovascular fitness were less likely to develop dementia.
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Women's high cardiovascular fitness stamina in midlife was associated with an 88% decreased risk of dementia in older age, compared with medium fitness, a new study finds.
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According to a new study, many cases of early-onset dementia before the age of 65 were related to chronic heavy drinking.