Weight Management in Congestive Heart Failure: Interview With Expert, PJ Striet

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

Personal trainer and exercise physiologist PJ Striet offers tips on weight management in congestive heart failure, safety and health advice for CHF patients. Mr. Striet lets Bright Hub in on personal trainer truths that every CHF patient will want to know. Interview with the ExpertBright Hub: When a person ...

Sports that Give a Full Body Workout

Monday, August 16th, 2010

This article will discuss sports that give a full body workout. Swimming and cross country skiing and the proper forms, techniques and physical benefits are detailed along with photo that demonstrate form. Sports that Condition the Entire BodyFor all the sports enthusiasts out there, did you know that there ...

Want to Build Muscle? Light Weights Will Do

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Building muscle doesn’t require a lot of heavy lifting, just a lot of light weight lifting, a new study indicates. Straining to lift very heavy weights isn’t the only way to pump up muscles, say researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Similar results can ...

Big Waist Increases Death Risk

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Men and women who are very large around the middle are at much greater risk of dying from any cause than people with thinner waists, a new study says. Eric J. Jacobs, PhD, and colleagues at the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society, examined associations between waist ...