Get-Fit Advice for Women Over 50 If you were physically active before 50, that’s great. But if you didn'texerciseregularly, it's not too late to start. Physical activity may help tame some of thesymptoms of menopause--hot flashes,joint pain, and sleep problems. Exercise also lowers you...
Research limitations/implications -There is a gap in the literature about this topic with few evaluated examples of how more older women can be encouraged to take more exercise. Practical implications - Policy makers, practitioners and older people themselves would gain from a greater emphasis on ...
Dr. Smith also compared bone loss among women. With those women that did seated exercises for 30 minutes, 3 times a week for 3 years, bone mineral actuallyincreasedby 2.29%, whereas in a similar group of inactive women, bonelossaveraged 3.28%. ...
(1998). Older women's feelings about exercise and their adherence to an aerobic regimen over time. Gerontologist, 38, 602-609... MS Caserta,PA Gillett - 《Gerontologist》 被引量: 88发表: 0年 "My Heart Couldn't Take It": Older Women's Beliefs About Exercise Benefits and Risks Daily phy...
In parallel with the progressive loss of muscle function, mitochondrial respiratory activity in human skeletal muscle has been shown to decrease with advancing age in healthy men and women13,14. Furthermore, protein levels of the mitochondrial master regulator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ga...
Think of it like this: hand a four-year-old a cup of hot chocolate and ask them to walk it over to someone across the room. Halfway there, you call out,“Be careful, don’t spill it!”What usually happens? Yep, the hot chocolate spills. That’s because the brain focuses on “sp...
normal cognitive function and dementia, presence of MCI increases the chance of developing dementia, with approximately two-thirds of Alzheimer’s disease patients having a previous diagnosis of MCI4. Moreover, the reported 2-year cumulative dementia incidence in individuals > 65 years with MCI...
Obesity, prevalent in industrialised societies, is most usefully categorised by means of the body mass index (BMI-weight/height2). A body mass index of &am
The population aged 60 years or over is rapidly growing, with the number of older adults worldwide expected to reach 1.4 billion in 2030 and 3.1 billion by 2100 [1]. This epidemiological shift is accompanied by a concomitant increase in the so-called aging-related diseases, notably frailty [...
In the SHAPE study, 189 sedentary postmenopausal women, aged 50–69 years, are randomly allocated to an intervention or a control group. The intervention consists of an 1-year moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic and strenght training exercise programme. Partcipants allocated to the control group...