Effects of Arthritis Exercise Programs on Functional Fitness and Activities of Daily Living Measures in Older Adults With Arthritis.
Rory Suomi and Douglas Collier, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Two popular standardized exercise programs for persons with arthritis are conducted under the auspices of the National Arthritis Foundation. While both on-land exercise (People with Arthritis Can Exercise--PACE) and water exercise (Arthritis Foundation Aquatic Program--AFAP) programs have seen...

Exercise is necessary says fitness icon Jackielou Blanco.
Like Hollywoods Jane Fonda and our own Cory Quirino, Jackielou Blanco is a fitness icon in her own right. And she said, if you want to get rid of those unwanted flabs or excess weight, dieting alone wont solve the problem. We see Jackielou regularly on GMA 7s Unang...

Effect of brisk walking in 1 or 2 daily bouts and moderate resistance training on lower-extremity muscle strength, balance, and walking performance in women who recently went through menopause: a randomized, controlled trial.
On average, menopause occurs at 50 years of age among US and European women. Menopause is defined as a natural, age-related decrease and, finally, loss of ovarian estrogen production and secretion. The decreasing estrogen level, along with other related hormonal changes, affects women in many unwanted ways, especially for...

Becoming somebody: changing priorities and physical activity.
The ways young people negotiate their participation in physical activity in relation to other priorities in their lives, during and beyond school, are explored here from a sociological approach to youth. The data from interviews for the Longitudinal Life Activity Project are used to explore how the place and...

Childhood obesity: a growing phenomenon for physical educators.
The greatest health risk facing children today is not a terrible disease as Leukemia or unthinkable trauma such as abuse. It is obesity. The prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States has risen dramatically in the past several decades (Wilmore, 1994). Twenty-five percent of American children are obese....

Biomechanics of submaximal recumbent cycling in adolescents with and without cerebral palsy.
Children with cerebral palsy (CP) typically have progressive impairments that affect their function as children and later as adults, and they have decreased fitness levels versus children with typical development (TD). Cycling has been suggested as an intervention to address common impairments and improve fitness levels in this population....

Improving youth fitness needn't be tough sledding: the Olympic women's skeleton gold medallist shares her philosophy on physical activity for young people. (Gale Advisory).
Start slow, experiment liberally, respect your limitations, and find your niche. That, in a nutshell, is Olympic women's skeleton gold medallist Tristan Gale's exercise and fitness advice for young people. And Kim Cohee, PT, and Robin Marcus, PT, co-directors of the physical therapy clinic at the Olympic Village during...

Fitness and atherosclerosis progression.
Good cardiorespiratory fitness, usually a product of exercise, is associated with lower risks of bad things happening, like heart attacks, strokes, and other vascular events. One question unanswered till now has been the extent to which exercise and fitness slows the progression of atherosclerosis. A study from Finland [1]...

Steroids and the Pursuit of Bigness.
THE perfected gym body has become a universally recognized icon in contemporary gay male society, and the internalization of this body image has had a widespread impact upon how many gay men feel about themselves. As a psychotherapist with a predominantly gay male clientele in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, I...

Forty-four techniques for empowering older adults living with diabetes.
Two in five adults older than 65 live with diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance (American Diabetes Association [ADA], 2003; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002). Diabetes is a chronic disease that is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, and lower extremity amputation. Aggressive control...