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Hiking: 10 physical and mental health benefits

The Sporting

Hiking Delivers a Great Cardio Workout You get sustained cardiovascular exercise from hiking, which means it can increase your cardio-respiratory health and should become a semi-regular part of your fitness training. When you hike, you're exercising your muscles. A hike is considered to be a form of low-intensity exercise.

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World Heart Day Q&A with Stanford Children’s Heart Doctors

Stanford Childrens

Exercise and Heart Disease in Kids Ever wonder if your child with heart disease should exercise? On World Heart Day , we asked four of our pediatric cardiologists to answer these questions and others from parents who wanted to know the guidelines around exercise for their child with heart disease.

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Muscle Tone & Metabolism: Sculpting from the Inside Out

Designs for Health

The role of muscle tone in metabolic health Metabolic health refers to how well the body generates and processes energy, taking into account cardiovascular risk, blood sugar regulation, blood pressure, and waist circumference. Paracrine myokines induced during exercise, such as musclin , may also target intramuscular adipose tissue.

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Creating a Holistic Detox Plan for Sustainable Weight Management

Designs for Health

Research suggests that the exposure, accumulation, and removal of toxins may be associated with chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Moreover, the accumulation of toxic trace elements in the body is associated with metabolic disorders linked to being overweight or obese.

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Don’t Sleep on These Tips: Re-Set Your Sleep Routine

Designs for Health

Getting the recommended amount of sleep each night is important for every major body system, including the nervous, cardiovascular, immune, endocrine, digestive, and respiratory systems. Despite being the only mammals that purposefully delay sleep, human adults need 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night. By Bri Mesenbring, MS, CNS, LDN

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Physical Activity vs Physical Education

PLT4M

Examples of physical education include teaching concepts and building skills around things like muscular strength, endurance, mobility, cardiovascular health, and more. Instead, physical education class is a place to develop motor skills, learn fundamental fitness skills, and explore different types of exercise.

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Where Do All the Runners Go?

Physical Education Update

Once broken, the exercise habit is hard to re-start. And how many are relegating themselves to a life filled with obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other inactivity-related maladies! tags]physical education,cross-country running,runners,youth fitness,youth inactivity,obesity [/tags].