SMU.edu – Exercise is a magic therapy for many people with depression and anxiety disorders, and it should be more widely prescribed by mental health care providers, according to researchers who analyzed the results of numerous published studies. “Exercise has been shown to have tremendous benefits for mental health,” says Jasper Smits, director of the [...]

Ku.dk – Soccer is a pleasurable team sport that provides an all-round fitness and can be used as treatment for lifestyle-related diseases. Men worry less when playing soccer than when running. Women’s soccer creates we-stories and helps women stay active. The above statements are taken from some of the results from an extensive soccer research [...]

Rm.unicatt.it – It seems like a typical heart attack, but it’s not. It has several names – Tako-Tsubo syndrome, broken-heart syndrome, or stress-induced cardiomyopathy, and it’s a rare disease which used to be confused with the far more common (and dangerous) myocardial infarction. Patients arrive to the emergency room with the characteristic heart attack symptoms: [...]

BioMed Central – A nutritional supplement could stimulate the production of stem cells integral for repairing the body. Research published in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Translational Medicine suggests that a commercially-available dietary supplement can increase the blood circulation of hematopoietic stem cells, which can give rise to all blood cells, and endothelial progenitor [...]

A new diet study demonstrates that eating protein-rich eggs for breakfast reduces hunger and decreases calorie consumption at lunch and throughout the day. The study, published in the February 2010 issue of Nutrition Research, found that men who consumed an egg-based breakfast ate significantly fewer calories when offered an unlimited lunch buffet compared to when [...]

Women living in the northeastern United States are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis (RA), suggesting a link between the autoimmune disease and vitamin D deficiency, says a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher. In the NIH-funded study, which appears online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, a spatial [...]