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Wearable Activity Trackers and Smartphone Fitness Apps Promote Physical Activity Levels by Iswarya on December 22, 2020 at 11:14 AM
the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The size of the effect is small to moderate, but it may be worth offering them on prescription to motivated patients, given the importance for health of increasing daily physical activity by any amount, say the researchers.
Globally, more than a quarter of adults don t meet recommended physical activity levels. Physical inactivity represents a leading cause of death worldwide and is thought to cost billions of dollars every year.
‘Given the wide reach of smartphones, even modest changes in physical activity can deliver large effects at the population level.’
Exercise During Adolescence may Prevent Schizophrenia by Colleen Fleiss on December 16, 2020 at 10:05 PM
During adolescence, low intensity exercise was found to have protective effects in a mouse model of schizophrenia, said University of Tsukuba researchers.
Although schizophrenia is increasingly understood as a neurodevelopmental disorder, environmental factors are known to play an important role in the disease onset and progression.
In a study published this month in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, researchers from the University of Tsukuba have revealed that low-intensity exercise during adolescence, which is a critical developmental period, significantly reduced abnormal behaviors in a mouse model of schizophrenia.