Sentences with phrase «from vigorous physical activity»

Participants were instructed to refrain from vigorous physical activity for at least 5 d before testing.

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A long - term follow - up study of 3050 twins from the Finnish Twin Cohort has shown that midlife, moderately vigorous physical activity is associated with better cognition at old age.

High levels of moderate - to - vigorous physical activity are associated with lower arterial stiffness in 6 -8-year-old children, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

The risk of a new episode of low back pain significantly increased due to a range of triggers, from an odds ratio of 2.7 for moderate to vigorous physical activity to 25.0 for distraction during an activity.

The study, publishing online January 18 in the American Journal of Epidemiology, found elderly women with less than 40 minutes of moderate - to - vigorous physical activity per day and who remain sedentary for more than 10 hours per day have shorter telomeres — tiny caps found on the ends of DNA strands, like the plastic tips of shoelaces, that protect chromosomes from deterioration and progressively shorten with age.

Eight thousand women over age 80 across the U.S. are being enlisted to help the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences researchers determine how much, how vigorous and what types of physical activity are necessary to maintain cardiovascular health and prevent injury from falls in later life.

From a sample of over 2,600 18 — 85 aged women and men, researchers found that 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each week gave a 65 % improvement in quality of sleep.

Health behaviours included smoking (never, former, current), alcohol intake (none: ≤ 1 unit / weeks, moderate, heavy: ≥ 14 units / week) self - reported physical activity (vigorous, moderate and non / mild) 40 and duration of sleep (5 categories from ≤ 5 hours to ≥ 9 hours / day).

The participants were also asked to (a) complete a physical activity and nutritional questionnaire, (b) complete a dietary log for 48 hours before experimental trials, (c) maintain a normal diet, (d) refrain from alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine consumption at least 48 hours before testing sessions, (e) refrain from use of pain reliever and analgesics for the duration of the study, and (f) not participate in any vigorous physical activity 48 hours before testing sessions.

Children from dog - owning families spent more time in light or moderate to vigorous physical activity and recorded higher levels of activity counts per minute.

Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that women between the ages of 64 to 90 who sat for more than 10 hours a day with less than 40 minutes of daily moderate - to - vigorous physical activity had shorter telomeres.