Regular exercise is the best way to prevent lower back pain, but you shouldn't exercise while you have severe back pain, according to "Low Back Pain," a report by The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library.
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Walking and other aerobic physical activity has a direct effect on your blood's good cholesterol level. Regular physical activity, including walking, also "can help lower LDL (bad) cholesterol," according to the U.S. government's National Cholesterol Education Program.
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Drinking a glass or two of alcohol daily raises people's good blood cholesterol levels, but numerous medical organizations do not recommend consuming liquor because it can lead to heavy drinking, which can ultimately have a negative impact on health.
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Age is a major factor in the amount of cholesterol in your blood. Being older than 45 years old if you're a man and older than 55 if you're a woman is a "risk factor" for having a cholesterol problem, according to the U.S. government's National Cholesterol Education Program, or NCEP.
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The ratio of total cholesterol to HDL, or good, cholesterol is a "better predictor of heart disease" than total cholesterol or HDL cholesterol, according to "Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease."
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated the average height of American teenagers via physical examinations 5 times since the 1960s. CDC estimates that the average teenage girl in 2002 -- the year of the most recent physical exams -- is about 0.3 inches taller than she was in the 1960s.
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The body mass index, or BMI, tables use the word "normal" to categorize the weight status of people who weigh between the underweight and overweight standards. Your height and weight determine your BMI. The weight-for-height tables use "desirable"
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Exercising while you're on the Atkins Diet is "nonnegotiable," according to "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution." The diet's major principle is that body fat is caused by excess blood sugar. Exercising improves how efficiently your blood sugar is used.
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The freestyle and the breaststroke are two of the four strokes used by competitive swimmers in the individual medley race. The others are the backstroke and the butterfly.
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The average body mass index (BMI) in men between the ages of 20 and 74 has increased from 25.1 in the early 1960s to 27.9 between 1999 and 2002, the last year there was a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Men 75 and over weren’t sampled until 1988, but their BMI has also increased.
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An exercise bike workout is one of the best ways to lose weight. You will begin to burn calories immediately, but it's important to plan your workouts so you can maximize your long-term weight loss.
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The standard for determining what is a man’s ideal weight has changed in recent years from insurance companies’ Weight-for-Height tables to Body Mass Index (BMI) tables that correlate height and weight with BMI.
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You lose weight when you burn more calories than you eat. How many calories you burn depends on your metabolism, your weight, the intensity and length of your exercises, and how active you are when you're not exercising.
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You lose weight by burning more calories than you eat. If you exercise several hours per day you can eat a lot more than 1,600 calories a day and still lose weight. In fact, someone who exercises a lot needs to eat more calories to have the energy to exercise that much in the first place.
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Boys and girls have dramatically different height growth as teenagers. Whereas boys grow more than 5 inches between the ages of 13 and 15 years, girls grow only 1.6 inches during their teenage years after growing more rapidly than boys before adolescence.
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Regular brisk walking spurs weight loss, according to "Controlling Cholesterol." The book, by well-known heart surgeon Dr. Kenneth Cooper, defines brisk walking as 3.2 mph. "The Well Adult" book defines 3.75 mph as the brisk-walking speed, and the State of Wisconsin's "Calories Burned Per Hour"
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Bicycling is an effective way to burn calories and improve overall fitness. Learn how many calories you can burn while biking one mile, depending on your speed and weight, and discover the benefits of making cycling a part of your exercise routine.
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Walking burns calories, and the faster you walk, the more you burn. But speed isn't the only factor in losing weight by walking. You "have to reach 65 to 70 percent of your body's maximum heart rate to substantially improve your fitness and burn serious calories," according to "The Complete Guide to Walking."
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Losing weight is difficult because you must burn 3,500 calories more than you consume to lose one pound. You also must consume more calories than you normally consume if you want to have the energy to exercise vigorously.
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Walking five miles, five days a week takes considerable time, but the payoff can be huge if you make it a lifetime habit. In fact, walking only 35 minutes daily for 15 years "saved a 160-lb. person about 18 lbs. of flab," according to Harvard Men's Health Watch. Well-known exercise expert Dr.
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