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Regular exercise can reduce depression in cancer patients, according to a new study in the UK.

Research funded by Macmillan Cancer Support revealed that women who were active during treatment for breast cancer exercised more five years later and had lower levels of depression.

The charity said the study is the first of its kind into the long-term benefits of exercising during treatment.

A total of 203 women took part in the original 12-week supervised group exercise program during treatment for early stage breast cancer and 87 of them were reassessed at the five-year follow-up.

Carried out by researchers at the University of Strathclyde, the results showed women who were more active consistently experienced lower levels of depression and increased quality of life compared to those who were less active.

The study, recently published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship, said women who took part in an exercise program during treatment five years ago, now averaged three hours and twenty minutes more physical activity each week than a control group who did not.

Macmillan now wants to work with the NHS and local councils across Scotland to develop exercise programs aimed at getting cancer patients active.

Allan Cowie, the charity's general manager in Scotland, said: "Cancer patients have traditionally been told to rest, however this research shows there are real and long-lasting benefits to doing some exercise while going through treatment and building on our previous research that found exercise makes some cancers less likely to return, it's clear that getting cancer patients to exercise is vital.

"We have already been working with partners to develop exercise programs for cancer patients in parts of Scotland and we now want to continue working with the NHS and local authorities across the country to make the existing services responsive to the growing numbers of people affect by cancer in years to comes."

Dr Anna Campbell, lecturer in Clinical Exercise Science at the University of Dundee, and part of the research team, said: "This is the first study that has looked at the long term impact of a group exercise program on cancer patients. The results of this study were much more positive than we had expected, with evidence of lasting benefits including increased positive mood and more active daily living.

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Washington, October 17 (ANI): Just a few minutes of daily exercise can help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder perform better academically, according to a new study.

The study, led by a Michigan State University researcher, has shown for the first time that kids with ADHD can better drown out distractions and focus on a task after a single bout of exercise.

Scientists say such "inhibitory control" is the main challenge faced by people with the disorder.

"This provides some very early evidence that exercise might be a tool in our nonpharmaceutical treatment of ADHD," said Matthew Pontifex, MSU assistant professor of kinesiology, who led the study.

"Maybe our first course of action that we would recommend to developmental psychologists would be to increase children's physical activity," he noted.

While drugs have proven largely effective in treating many of the 2.5 million school-aged American children with ADHD, a growing number of parents and physicians worry about the side effects and costs of medication.

In the study, Pontifex and colleagues asked 40 children aged 8 to 10, half of whom had ADHD, to spend 20 minutes either walking briskly on a treadmill or reading while seated. The children then took a brief reading comprehension and math exam similar to longer standardized tests. They also played a simple computer game in which they had to ignore visual stimuli to quickly determine which direction a cartoon fish was swimming.

The results showed all of the children performed better on both tests after exercising. In the computer game, those with ADHD also were better able to slow down after making an error to avoid repeat mistakes - a particular challenge for those with the disorder.

Pontifex said the findings support calls for more physical activity during the school day. Other researchers have found that children with ADHD are less likely to be physically active or play organized sports. Meanwhile, many schools have cut recess and physical education programs in response to shrinking budgets.

"To date there really isn't a whole lot of evidence that schools can pull from to justify why these physical education programs should be in existence. So what we're trying to do is target our research to provide that type of evidence," he said.

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LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Polar (www.polarusa.com), the leader in heart rate monitoring and fitness assessment technologies, today introduced the new Polar Beat a next generation exercise training app. As the company celebrates its 35th anniversary, this launch represents its next stride on the path of innovations and tools to help users train smarter to improve performance.

Now available in the iTunes App Store, Polar Beat adds exercise intelligence to training data to surpass apps which simply track exercise, so a user knows what the body has achieved and what to do to meet a desired fitness goal.

Drawing on its 35-year legacy of exceptional accuracy and robust training guidance, Polar Beat adds meaning and direction to workouts, whether a person has just signed up to a local gym, or is world class triathlete or works out indoors or outdoors. When used together with the Polar H7 heart rate sensor, one of the first sensors to use low energy Bluetooth Smart technology, it sports numerous unique features that users can take advantage of to maximize their fitness:

Additional features of the Polar Beat include: training targets and training session data for time, distance and calories; maps and music; and training history and personal bests. It's also social, so users can share success with friends and family online.

"Polar recognized early on that the future is in Bluetooth Smart. The Polar Beat, along with the H7, will allow many of the millions of smartphone users to experience the benefits of heart rate for the first time," said Herb Baer, Polar USA president. "Polar has put decades of expertise into this technology to ensure anyone can enjoy and improve their fitness with accurate, intelligent information. With the Polar Beat, users can get guidance and feedback through all aspects of training, tailored to their needs."

Pricing, availability and compatibilityPolar Beat can be found on Apple's App Store today at no cost. An in-app feature upgrade for $3.99 is also available, providing advanced target setting and deeper real-time workout analysis. Polar Beat is compatible with the iPhone 4s, the new iPhone 5 and any iPhone functioning on Apple's new iOS 6 operating system.

Polar Beat's enhanced features like heart rate monitoring, accurate calorie counting and training intensity levels can be utilized in conjunction with the new Polar H7 Heart Rate Sensor. The Polar H7 Heart Rate Sensor pairs with Polar Beat, using Bluetooth Smart for a high quality connection and minimal battery consumption. Discover more about Polar Beat and H7 at http://www.polarusa.com/beat/us-en/.

About Polar Headquartered in Lake Success, NY, Polar USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Finland-based Polar Electro OY, which invented the first wireless heart rate monitor (HRM) in 1977. Polar now operates internationally in more than 80 countries and its products are sold through 35,000 retailers globally. Polar heart rate and fitness assessment technology delivers unparalleled insight into the human body from valuable training guidance and feedback, to enabling individuals to improve their fitness level and sports performance. Polar technology is key to the success of leading fitness facilities, athletic teams, corporate wellness facilities, health insurance providers and thousands of physical education programs around the world. Today, Polar training computers are the number one choice among consumers worldwide. For more information, visitwww.polarusa.com.

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ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2012) A few minutes of exercise can help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder perform better academically, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University researcher.

The study, published in the current issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, shows for the first time that kids with ADHD can better drown out distractions and focus on a task after a single bout of exercise. Scientists say such "inhibitory control" is the main challenge faced by people with the disorder.

"This provides some very early evidence that exercise might be a tool in our nonpharmaceutical treatment of ADHD," said Matthew Pontifex, MSU assistant professor of kinesiology, who led the study. "Maybe our first course of action that we would recommend to developmental psychologists would be to increase children's physical activity."

While drugs have proven largely effective in treating many of the 2.5 million school-aged American children with ADHD, a growing number of parents and physicians worry about the side effects and costs of medication.

In the study, Pontifex and colleagues asked 40 children aged 8 to 10, half of whom had ADHD, to spend 20 minutes either walking briskly on a treadmill or reading while seated. The children then took a brief reading comprehension and math exam similar to longer standardized tests. They also played a simple computer game in which they had to ignore visual stimuli to quickly determine which direction a cartoon fish was swimming.

The results showed all of the children performed better on both tests after exercising. In the computer game, those with ADHD also were better able to slow down after making an error to avoid repeat mistakes -- a particular challenge for those with the disorder.

Pontifex said the findings support calls for more physical activity during the school day. Other researchers have found that children with ADHD are less likely to be physically active or play organized sports. Meanwhile, many schools have cut recess and physical education programs in response to shrinking budgets.

"To date there really isn't a whole lot of evidence that schools can pull from to justify why these physical education programs should be in existence," he said. "So what we're trying to do is target our research to provide that type of evidence."

Pontifex conducted the study for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois before joining the MSU faculty. His co-investigators included his adviser, kinesiology professor Charles Hillman, and Daniel Picchietti, a pediatrician at the Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign, Ill. The research was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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09-10-2012 18:44 An Obscure Trick to Make All Workouts More Effective Here is something that should peak your interest... Harvard University researchers studied hotel cleaning attendants from numerous hotels. The hotel attendants were split into 2 groups Group 1 was informed about the benefits of exercise and told how many calories they were burning while doing their hotel cleaning work each day. They were told specifics about how many calories were burned changing sheets, vacuuming, and cleaning bathrooms per hour. To further reinforce the effect, they gave the attendants handouts showing the calories they were burning doing each activity. They were also shown a poster daily that reiterated how many calories they were burning. Group 2 was simply informed of the benefits of exercise, but not told how many calories they were burning doing their work, and were not told that their work actually constituted a good form of exercise. Both groups had their exercise, eating, smoking, and other habits noted before and during the study, as well as taking weigh-ins and health tests. The study was conducted for 4 weeks, and the hotel managers made sure that the workloads of both groups stayed the same. The results? Group 1, which was the more-informed group, ended up losing a significant amount of weight, lowering their body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio, and decreased their blood pressure. Group 2 showed none of these improvements. The only thing difference between the groups was that ...

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FRIDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer survivors who believe in their ability to follow through with an exercise program are more likely to continue working out after their treatment ends, according to a new study.

Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) pointed out that physical activity can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence and said women can learn the skills needed to help them overcome barriers to regular exercise.

"We can teach breast cancer survivors how to enlist the support of others and how to identify exercise-related barriers, as well as provide proven strategies for them to overcome those barriers," the study's lead author, Paul Loprinzi, a former doctoral student at OSU who is now a faculty member at Bellarmine University, said in an OSU news release.

For the study, published in the October issue of Supportive Care in Cancer, the researchers examined what motivated 69 older breast cancer survivors to follow through on their workout regimen once their supervised exercise program ended.

The study revealed that women with greater confidence in their ability to follow through on their exercise program despite fatigue or other obstacles were much more likely to do so. Women with the most confidence were 10 percent more likely than others to still be physically active six months after their supervised program ended.

For breast cancer survivors, physical exercise can help ease common side effects of cancer treatment, such as fatigue, depression and lost muscle strength, the researchers noted.

"Especially important is minimizing weight gain after breast cancer treatment because excessive weight gain can increase the risk of developing reoccurring breast cancer," added Loprinzi.

Instructors who supervise exercise programs can help survivors develop confidence in their ability to continue working out on their own, the researchers said.

And cancer survivors make good instructors, another study author, Bradley Cardinal, professor of exercise science at OSU, said in the news release. "When people who lead the classes are cancer survivors themselves, this can help because they become a role model. Also, they can help prepare the participants for that time when they have to exercise on their own," he said.

Replacing a problem behavior with a positive one, such as taking a walk whenever stressed, is one strategy that can be effective, the study authors noted.

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CINCINNATI - Health & Lifestyle expert Mary Beth Knight knows first hand that exercise can reduce the risk of breast cancer. She has some tips on how exercise can offer some protection from breast cancer.

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Some studies suggest that exercise can reduce the risk of breast cancer in women and experts believe this is because exercise lowers a woman's ongoing exposure to estrogen, which is believed to contribute to cancer growth.

The interesting thing is that exercise and weight control may work together in preventing breast cancer. Dr. Anne McTiernan, an internist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, found that the women in her study who exercised the most had a 22 percent decreased risk of breast cancer.

Growing evidence seems to support the benefits of exercise as a possible treatment for cancer. Several studies have examined the relationship between exercise, rehabilitation and quality of life in cancer patients and reported positive findings.

Studies have followed women undergoing breast cancer treatment who added moderate exercise to their treatment regimen. In most studies women exercised at a moderate intensity (60-85 percent of maximal heart rate) for twenty to 30 minutes, three times per week from four to 12 weeks. The exercise programs included bicycle ergometer and walking programs.

These studies have found that overall, exercise had a positive effect on physical and psychological functioning of cancer patients while in treatment. These benefits include the following objective and self-reported findings:

Increased functional capacity and VO2Max

Decreased body fat

Increased lean muscle mass

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Younger women who are thrust into menopause because of breast cancer treatment may get some relief from talk therapy and regular exercise, a new study from the Netherlands suggests.

Symptoms including hot flashes and vaginal dryness often come on gradually for women who go through natural menopause, as the body's production of hormones slowly dwindles.

But that's not often the case for women who are diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause and treated with chemotherapy and other potent drugs.

"Oftentimes with women with breast cancer who experience treatment-induced menopause, the symptoms are much more severe than in natural menopause," said Neil Aaronson from The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, who worked on the study.

What's more, those women shouldn't take replacement hormones - an effective but controversial treatment for menopause-related symptoms - because they can put them at risk of a cancer recurrence.

For the new study, Aaronson and his colleagues randomly assigned 422 women with breast cancer and treatment-induced menopause to one of four groups.

One group went to six weekly therapy sessions, another consulted with physiotherapists and started tailored exercise programs, a third did both therapy and exercise and the final group was put on a waitlist.

The type of group treatment, known as cognitive behavioral therapy, included relaxation exercises and addressed symptoms as well as body image and sexuality issues.

Six months later, women in the talk therapy, exercise and combined groups reported an improvement in treatment-related symptoms, each gaining about five points on a 73-point scale compared to less than two points among waitlisters.

Women who'd had therapy also said they were bothered less by their hot flashes and night sweats - but had them just as often, according to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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Small pilot study suggests that T cells become more responsive in exercising cancer survivors weeks after chemo ends

Newswise WESTMINSTER, CO (October 10, 2012)Researchers may soon be able to add yet another item to the list of exercises well-documented health benefits: A preliminary study suggests that when cancer survivors exercise for several weeks after they finish chemotherapy, their immune systems remodel themselves to become more effective, potentially fending off future incidences of cancer. The finding may help explain why exercise can significantly reduce the chances of secondary cancers in survivors or reduce the chances of cancer altogether in people who have never had the disease.

Laura Bilek, Graham Sharp, and Geoffrey Thiele, all of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Daniel Shackelford, Colin Quinn, and Carole Schneider, all of Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute, analyzed T cells in the blood of cancer survivors before and after a 12-week exercise program. They found that a significant portion of these immune cells converted from a senescent form, which isnt as effective at combating disease, to a nave form, ready to fight cancer and infections.

Their poster presentation entitled, Effect of Exercise on T Cells in Cancer Survivors, will be discussed at The Integrative Biology of Exercise VI meeting being held October 10-13 at the Westin Westminster Hotel in Westminster, CO. This popular meeting is a collaborative effort between the American Physiological Society, the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. The conference is supported in part by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, an institute of the National Institutes of Health, GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., Stealth Peptides, Inc., and Seahorse Biosciences. The full program is online at http://bit.ly/OrMFtN.

Exercise and Immunity Study leader Laura Bilek explains that previous research had turned up a variety of positive associations between exercise and cancernotably, that exercise can reduce the risk of getting initial incidences of several different types of cancers, can often improve prognosis in cancer patients, and can reduce the risk of recurrence and secondary cancers survivors of some types of cancers. However, the mechanism behind these phenomena has been unknown.

Since other research has suggested that exercise can remodel the immune system, making it more effective at fighting disease in general, Bilek and her colleagues decided to investigate how exercise affects the immune system of cancer patients. Working with a group of 16 cancer survivors, all but one of who recently finished chemotherapy cancer treatment, the researchers focused on T cells, a type of immune cell that attacks a variety of infectious agents as well as cancer cells. After chemotherapy, previous research had shown that the majority of T cells become senescent, with a decreased ability to fight infections and cancers. However, Bilek says, rebuilding the population of responsive (nave) T cells is critical for regaining normal immune function and cancer-fighting ability.

The researchers first took blood samples from each of the volunteers to examine how many senescent and nave T cells each had. Then, these study subjects were all enrolled into 12-week exercise programs at the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute. All programs were individualized for the study participants, incorporating elements of cardiovascular exercise, strength and endurance training, and exercises for flexibility, posture, and balance, with extra emphasis in areas where participants were weak.

After the 12-week program, the researchers drew a second blood sample from each volunteer and ran the same T cell analysis.

Another Reason to Work Out Results showed that the ratio of senescent to nave T cells changed favorably in the majority of participants, with most of the study subjects regaining greater numbers of the nave variety.

What were suggesting is that with exercise, you might be getting rid of T cells that arent helpful and making room for T cells that might be helpful, Bilek says.

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07-10-2012 14:57 How do facial toning exercises actually work? In this video we explain the acupressure principles used to tone and tighten loose skin on the face and neck, and erase wrinkles - and of course why they work so frigging well! DIY facelift exercises are excellent as a cure for bags under the eyes, eliminating crows feet and dark rings, removing forehead and mouth wrinkles, firming turkey neck, lifting chubby cheeks and double chins! Yoga facial exercises are an all-in-one natural facelift toning system, that costs nothing and is easy to apply, hopefully at home. Check out how men and women all over the world are using the "Facelift Without Surgery" face exercise program to look years younger than their current age!

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