Aerobics and Fitness Daily

According to an article in Newsweek about “Fall’s Fattening Foods” you are at risk of expanding your waistline exponentially this season.

 Autumn is fraught with dangers including excess calories consumed from Halloween candy, extra helpings of mashed potatoes and apple pie.

 For instance just 25 jellybeans adds 140 calories, a helping of mashed potatoes is 200 calories and a slice of apple pie WITHOUT the usual ice-cream is close to 400 calories. With the ice cream you have a desert that is 530 calories. 

The worst however has to be the Starbucks Venti Pumpkin Spice Lattes , which has enough calories in it to be a meal in itself. It weighs in at 530 calories.

Are cigarettes robbing your will to exercise and leaving you breathless in the swimming pool and on the tennis courts?

   According to a story in Newsweek you will be able to get a shot that causes you to completely lose your cravings for cigarettes. The anti-smoking shot is being developed by the Institutive on Drug Abuse, which has so far given eight million for the research.

 If the FDA approves this shot it could be very good news for people who are pregnant and want to smoke. It may also prove to be a boon for women who find it especially hard to quit. Curiously many smokers actually get cravings for nicotine while they exercise.

An article in Medical News Today confirms what most of us already women. Women smoke to stay slim.

In fact a study conducted at the University of Michigan says that fear of weight gain is the number one reason why most women do not quit smoking. The study also investigated why women might be smoking in the first place.

Not surprisingly the number one reason was that they heard that it could cause them to lose weight. The study also suggested that a way out of this type of thinking is to remind women about the other adverse effects of smoking on their appearance such as wrinkled skin, yellow teeth and bad breath.

In an article called Exercise Improves Senior Balance published on Reuters writer Amy Norton talks about how risks and falls associated with old age can be avoided or made less of a likelihood if the elderly would only take some time to exercise. 

In an analysis of 34 clinical trials, British researchers found that strength training and exercise specifically targeting balance, coordination and walking ability showed the strongest results when it came to improving the motor skills of seniors in general.  Tai Chi was cited as being a gentle and effective form of exercise for seniors. This is important news because accidental falls due to becoming unbalanced are a big cause of death and disability for seniors.

Reuters has reported that a study in Brazil at the University of Sao Paulo has found that children with asthma are likely to breather easier if they exercise well.  Keep in mind that this study was done on children that were already on asthma medication.   

Exercise in general was found to curb the feelings of being out of breath that can be brought on by physical activity. Aerobic training was performed at moderate to high intensity twice a week for 16 weeks. Moreover, daily doses of inhaled steroids were reduced by over half t in children who participated in the exercise training, while the doses remained the same or increased for children who did not exercise at well. It is possible that exercise may be a prescribed management strategy for children who suffer from asthma in the very near future.