Tag: health
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Should I get 10,000 steps per day?
Science-based, health promotion or marketing ploy? If you have some sort of exercise watch or gadget, most likely you’ve heard of the goal to get 10 000 steps each day. Even if you don’t, you probably know someone who talks about their daily step goal. They’re walking every chance they get, while watching TV (like…
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Foods for Your Brain and Mental Well-being
You are what you eat. And not only that, you think based on what you eat as well. We’re learning more and more about the effect foods have on mood, how we think, and whether one gets dementia in later life. Most of us have a go-to comfort food or reach for certain foods when…
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Can you get too much exercise?
The plain answer is yes. The more nuanced answer is, it depends. With 80% of people being physically inactive, exercise is one thing almost all of us should get more of. Despite this, there are plenty of articles, studies and anecdotes suggesting yes, you can get too much exercise. Legend has it Philippides, a Greek…
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You Can’t Outrun a Bad Diet
The phrase ‘diet and exercise’ is so common it rolls off one’s tongue. Similar to peanut butter and jam. Rarely is one mentioned without the other. One might, therefore, think the two are interchangeable. If you have a poor diet, you can make up for it with being more active. And vice versa. However, over…