Fitness Tips: Snippets

by David Garred,
Club Manager Dusit Resort Sports Club.

Hello readers. This week again I would like to share with you a few small things that I came across in some of the more highly regarded industry journals.
Smoking and high cholesterol may combine to impair artery function
Cigarette smoking and elevated cholesterol each increase risk of heart attack and stroke. Together, their power to do harm may be especially dangerous. A research team from Germany reporting in the American Heart Association journal; Circulation - says smoking and cholesterol appear to interact synerginistically (together) to impair function of the arteries, inner lining the Endothelium. As a result of this interaction, heavy smokers with elevated cholesterol may be more vulnerable to endothelial damage from oxidised LDL cholesterol - the worst kind.
Cardiorespiratory fitness may protect against prostate Cancer
Researchers asses the effect cardiorespiratory fitness had on the risk of prostate cancer, the second leading cause of death among men in the United States. The researchers found - after controlling for age, body mass index and smoking habits - that higher cardiorespiratory levels (energy expenditure of more than 1000 Calories per week) were inversely associated with the probability of developing prostate cancer.
Meaning that if you are male and exercise regularly, burning more than 1000 Calories per week, then the chance of you developing prostate cancer is greatly reduced - as long as you continue to exercise regularly.
Chronic depression increases risk of heart attack, death
The risk of heart attack - and of death from all causes natural - increases in all people who are chronically “blue”, according to findings from a multi decade long study of 730 people from the Danish community of Glostrup.
The study is one of “the first to demonstrate that depression can play a role in the development of initial coronary events,” says a report again from the AMA journal - Circulation.
What should sad people do to improve their depression? Exercise, meditation and psychotherapy are promising techniques, according to John C. Barefoot PhD, who was the lead author of this study, a psychologist and an associate research professor at Duke University Medical Center.
That should be a little something for everyone with some obvious hints for the health conscious and something for everyone to have a think about.
Ask yourself, “What is more important?”
You only get one body to work/play with!
Carpe’ diem.

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