Mental Health

Wide-Ranging Health Benefits of Walking Groups

Among the various modes of group fitness activities, joining an organized outdoor walking group is shown to confer improvements in blood pressure, heart rate, cholesterol levels, and mood.  Sarah Hanson, from the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), and colleagues completed a meta-analysis of 42 studies of outdoor walking group interventions in adults.  Identifying data …

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The Importance of Nutrition in Mental Health

With pharmacological approaches both costly in developed nations and largely inaccessible in developing countries, scientists and public health experts are looking at nutritional approaches to address mental health issues.  Jerome Sarris, from the University of Melbourne (Australia), and colleagues submit that: “Evidence is steadily growing for the relation between dietary quality (and potential nutritional deficiencies) …

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The Relationship between Exercising and Cholesterol in Men

As you get older, and especially when you reach 60 years of age, your cholesterol levels tend to rise.   However, men who exercise at an early age, improve their chances of delaying the onset of high cholesterol which has a direct effect on the development of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and …

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