NEW DELHI: For optimal health, a person’s ideal day should include more than four hours of physical activity involving exercise of light, moderate or vigourous intensity, and at least eight hours of sleep, new research has found.Light-intensity activity could range from doing chores to making dinner, whereas moderate and vigourous exercise involve more intentional movement … Read more
“I was not paying attention to my physical and mental health and I just crashed and burned. I found myself with depression and ignored it for the longest time, and then almost came to the end of the road with a suicide attempt,” she says. Grisoni (centre) during the gruelling HK100 ultra race in January. … Read more
WASHINGTON DC: New research suggests that school uniform requirements may inhibit young people, particularly primary school-aged girls, from engaging in physical activity.The University of Cambridge study analysed data from over a million five- to seventeen-year-olds around the world. It discovered that in nations where most schools mandate pupils to wear uniforms, fewer young people fulfil … Read more
PERTH: Lung cancer affects more individuals each year than any other malignancy. Nonetheless, a new study led by Curtin University revealed that people with incurable forms of the condition may survive longer if they engage in less than five minutes of physical activity per day.From the time of their diagnosis, 89 patients with incurable lung … Read more
