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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive condition that often results in mobility impairments and can lead to decreased health-related quality of life (HRQL) and death. There is evidence that physical activity can delay decline in PD patients. In a study in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease, researchers determined that that people who exercised regularly had significantly slower declines in HRQL and mobility over a two-year period.

Lead investigator Miriam R. Rafferty, PhD, of Northwestern University and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, describes the main findings of the study. "We found that people with Parkinson's disease who maintained exercise 150 minutes per week had a smaller decline in quality of life and mobility over two years compared to people who did not exercise or exercised less. The smaller decline was significant for people who started the study as regular exercisers, as well as for people who started to exercise 150 minutes per week after their first study-related visit."

The data came from the National Parkinson Foundation Quality Improvement Initiative (NPF-QII), an international, multicenter, prospective clinical study of care and outcomes that has recorded data from 21 sites in North America, the Netherlands, and Israel identified as Centers of Excellence by the National Parkinson Foundation. Over 3400 participants provided data over two years, with information collected during at least three clinic visits. The NPF-QII study collects demographics, disease duration, Hoehn and Yahr stage (HY), brief cognitive assessments, as well as data on pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management of PD symptoms. These observational study visits are scheduled on a yearly basis. At each visit, exercise is measured by the self-reported number of hours per week of exercise.

The Parkinson Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) is used to measure patient-reported, PD-specific HRQL. Functional mobility was measured by the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test, in which performance is tested by timing participants as they rise from a chair, walk three meters, turn, and return to a sitting position.

Although this study did not determine which type of exercise is best, it suggests that any type of exercise done with a "dose" of at least 150 minutes per week is better than not exercising. "People with PD should feel empowered to find the type of exercise they enjoy, even those with more advanced symptoms," remarked Dr. Rafferty.

An unanticipated finding from the study was that the HRQL benefit associated with 30-minute increases in exercise per week was greatest in people with advanced PD. These data have significant implications for making exercise and physical activity more accessible to people with more severe disability. People with more advanced PD may have poor access to regular exercise, as their mobility impairments would limit their independent participation in existing community and group exercise programs.

"The most important part of the study," according to Dr. Rafferty, "is that it suggests that people who are not currently achieving recommended levels of exercise could start to exercise today to lessen the declines in quality of life and mobility that can occur with this progressive disease."

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For decades, people who wanted to be fit had only a few ways to track their progress.

Stand on a scale, measure their waist, and calculate their body mass index (BMI).

In the past few years, technology has expanded the number, complexity, and precision of those measurements.

The latest way to gauge the effectiveness of your fitness regimen is to stand in front of, or step inside of, a 3-D body scanner.

Two scanners with growing popularity are the mPod, housed in a secure, automated booth, and the Fit3D ProScanner, which uses a portable scanner tower with connected turntable.

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The technology is familiar to anyone who's raised their arms overhead inside an airport security scanner.

Scanners benefit from the innovations found in the motion-sensing technology of Microsoft's Kinect, part of the Xbox One introduced in 2011.

To be scanned, you stand on a raised circular platform that makes one 360-degree rotation while an infrared camera on a nearby aluminum stand records information and relays it to a connected laptop.

The mPod was designed by Dipra Ray, Melody Shiue, and Andy Wu, who met as university friends in Australia. Ray and Wu majored in business and finance, Shiue in industrial design.

The company they founded, mPort, has partnered with LA Fitness to install 670 units in its clubs in the United States. Following the initial rollout in Orange County, Calif., the company is now installing mPods in other cities.

The mPod user steps into a photo booth-sized pod and stands on a turntable. In several minutes, the scanner produces a 3-D image that shows real-time changes achieved through different diets and fitness regimens.

The mPod is 100 percent automated, Mehul Dave, mPorts chief marketing officer, told Healthline. The user does not require another person to help them. You interact only with the machine. The mPod has an audio, visual, and touch interface. It talks to you and you talk back with your hands.

The mPod uses noninvasive infrared technology, equivalent to what comes out of a television remote control, and is safe to use for everyone including pregnant women, he said.

The unit maps more than 200,000 data points to measure your individual body shape, Dave added. Then it sends the information to the mPod mobile app, creates a 3-D image, or avatar, with data on all body and health measurements, and what they mean. It also describes the levels of risk you face.

The mPod records height, weight, biceps, chest, narrow waist, hips, mid-thigh, knees, calves, shoulders, and neck. It also measures BMI, body fat percentage, fat-free mass and percentage, waist-hip ratio, waist-height ratio, basal metabolic rate, ideal weight range, and target heart rate for exercise.

Dave and his colleagues finished their prototype in May 2013, and attracted investors four months later. By June 2016, they had signed the contract with LA Fitness clubs.

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The mPort focus is direct use by the customer in a shopping center or a club.

The mPod design offers security and comfort in a public place, Dave said. The app extends the usefulness of the scan by allowing users to access and use their data anytime to pursue health and fitness goals.

While mPorts founders first conceived of their scanner as a way for users to measure themselves before buying clothing online, Greg Moore the founder and chief executive officer of Fit3D in Redwood City, Calif., and creator of the ProScanner was inspired by his mother, Lynne.

In an interview with Healthline, Moore said, After trying for several years to shed some unwanted pounds, my mother hired a trainer and a nutritionist and started on a very healthy lifestyle. She mixed healthy eating with high-intensity interval training and cardio exercises. She was building muscle while shedding fat. So when I'd see her every few months, I could see that she fit inside of her old body.

Lynne became increasingly demotivated because her weight seemed to change so minutely, he said.

With a background in fitness, he knew her body was getting more lean and dense, but she didn't have a way to evaluate her progress. She finally gave up.

A computer engineer, Moore was a member of the invention team at Sportvision, which provides data and analytics for MLB teams. He drew on that experience, beginning in 2010, to solve my moms problem with motivation.

The ProScanner captures about 1,200 depth images on a body and combines them to create a full 3-D avatar of a human body, Moore said. The unit extracts more than 350 of those measurements to produce proprietary and university research-backed wellness metrics.

The data is finally presented to users and their coaches through the cloud-based Fit3D web platform, Moore said. Users can see scans and stats, compare them to past scans, and see a crazy amount of data about their bodies.

Fit3D sells, leases, or rents ProScanners to a spectrum of businesses to enhance their customer experience, Moore said. Clients include health insurance companies, hospitals, health clubs, weight loss centers, fashion brand shops, and custom-made mens suit shops.

Moore said user feedback has helped to improve the ProScanner.

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James Shapiro, a certified personal trainer and president of New York City-based Primal Power Fitness, has watched the tech boom in fitness over the past decade.

I've seen how impactful wearable tech has been for data tracking, he told Healthline. But this turn into 3-D body scanning is incredible.

When I try to create a blueprint for someone, I want to know every possible detail, he added. This boils down to nutrition, sleep habits, hydration levels, stress levels, and more. These small variables matter because it can be the difference of a couple points of body fat, or levels of performance.

Clients benefit from the wealth of recorded scan data.

Having these small details in a physical representation offers a picture the client can believe in and understand when it comes to body composition, Shapiro said. A scan removes the margin of error that bio-electric impedance tests [which measure body fat in relation to lean body mass] have, and that has significant reliability. On a larger commercial scale, scans can be the best thing that can happen to personal training.

Although Shapiro and his colleagues have no experience yet with 3-D scanning, he has a keen interest in the technology.

When you want to deliver a quality service, you want to provide the best information to back up your statements or claims, he said.

This would be more important for his clients who wish to considerably improve body composition and would benefit from the detailed 3-D images, he added.

A scan would offer a significant physiological boost to clients, who would be able to see that their sweat and tears were showing concrete results, he said.

Shapiro said the only real drawback to 3-D scanning would be that either the trainer or the client could misinterpret the information and believe they could achieve spot reduction.

Spot reduction is the belief that you can reduce a specific area of the body through extensively training only that part, he said. This might lead to unclear expectations and loss of motivation due to a lack of results.

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Swapping cutlery for chopsticks also helps slow down eating so the brain can catch up with the stomach, a trick which can also be achieved by eating with the non-dominant hand.

Try to eat slowly and mindfully, and yes that means turning the TV off, he added.

Eating with the TV on is one of the worst things you can do in terms of increased consumption. Finding that people eat 15 per cent more food with the telly on as compared to when it is off is not unusual. The danger is we simply fail to pay attention to food-related stimulation.

The next time you find yourself eating in front of the TV or computer think carefully about what you are doing. Mindful eating and drinking is important in terms of increased enjoyment and quite possible increased satiety too.

Other tips include:

Hide food - it really is a case of out of sight out of mind. Anything you can do to make food difficult to get will help cut calories.

Split up the portions - cut a pizza or cake into six pieces rather than four

Drink more water - half a litre 30 minutes before lunch reduces meal consumption by an average of 40 calories

Eat in front of the mirror - or from a mirrored plate to consciously acknowledge how much you are eating and what types of food

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Why do I need fiber? Victority/ShutterstockVirtually every weight-loss program welcomes "good carbs" as part of a healthy, lean, long-term diet. "Good carbs" refers to complex carbohydrates, foods like whole grains, nuts, beans, and seeds that are composed largely of complex sugar molecules, requiring lots of time and energy to digest into the simple sugars your body needs for fuel. One of the biggest benefits of foods rich in complex carbs is that they also contain large amounts of fiber. Fiber, in basic terms, is the indigestible parts of plant foods. It is the husk on the grain of wheat, the thin strands in celery, the crunch in the apple, the casings on edible seeds. Fiber protects you from heart disease, cancer, and digestive problems. Depending on the type of fiber (there is more than one!), it lowers cholesterol, helps with weight control, and regulates blood sugar. Bottom line: This is one nutrient you don't want to miss. Yet the average American gets just 12-15 grams of fiber a dayfar below the recommended 25-30 grams. And that was before so many people started cutting carbs for weight loss, without realizing they were also cutting out healthy dietary fiber. Here's how to sneak "good carbs" and extra fiber into your daily diet with a minimum of effort. Keep a container of trail mixin your car and office for the munchies Mark Herreid/ShutterstockMix together peanuts, raisins, a high-fiber cereal, and some chocolate-covered soy nuts. Allow yourself one handful for a sweet, yet high-fiber, snack.

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I used to pound the treadmill every morning and feel absolutely miserable. Not only was I slaving away the hamster way, but I still couldnt get rid of the last few pounds I carried around my hips and stomach.

Then one day, I just thought, Fuck it. I canceled my membership and made my own exercise routine using these simple tricks to lose the last few pounds without going to the gym.

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The thing is, you need to stop thinking about exercise as a chore and start enjoying it.

I like to run sometimes, but doing it six days a week on a machine felt like torture. Plus, the least amount of weekly exercise you need to be healthy is far less than six days.

My obsession with the gym caused my joints to hurt and my knees were making this creepy, cracking sound. So I thought, what is it that I would actually enjoy doing?

I remembered how I used to love jumping rope as a kid, so I picked up a cheap one and began the new routine. Now my cardio includes 20 or so minutes of listening to The Weeknd (and imagine us dating) while jumping in whatever patterns my brain can come up with.

I still go running, but I do it outside and in places that have some sort of scenic nature. Im telling you, I run for a half hour up a steep bridge and enjoy it because Im surrounded by trees and the sea.

Hiking is an excellent way to be in shape if you really dont want to run. Being in nature is not only super relaxing and will clear your mind, but it will also tone your entire body.

Jumping through branches and rocks while propelling yourself up is no easy business. Hiking will encourage healthy appetite, too. Im talking about fresh juice and quinoa craving, not Ben & Jerrys.

Once you lose the idea that the gym is the Holy Grail of wellness, youll find this fun world of movement that actually feels good.

When was the last time you went to the park and hit up the swing?

Doing just 20 minutes of this every other day will give you rock hard abs. Im not kidding, one night I woke up in pain after a particularly intense 60-minute swing session.

Staying in shape and losing weight is not only a physical reaction. A lot of what is standing in between you and your results is in your head. This is why I picked up yoga.

What yoga will do for you is make you aware of your mood, so youll stop binge-eating for good.

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Yoga will also tone you up super quickly. The most important thing is to find the best yoga mat for yourself.

Poses like triangle, warrior one and downward dog will have you walking around with tight buns and thighs in no time. Plus, you can take your mat anywhere and its a one-time investment.

Pilates is a great option if yoga isnt intense enough for you. You can find a ton of videos on YouTube and do it right in your bedroom.

The final step of my wellness strategy is meditation.

I was absolutely shocked to discover how just 10 minutes a day made the knot in my back from the office chair disappear. After you meditate, you will be more aware of your posture and of the dozens of ways you tense up during the day.

Recognizing your emotions will also prevent you from emotional eating, so youll lose pounds for good. This is a lifestyle change and a great investment in yourself.

Finding what you enjoy will make exercise more pleasant, and coupling it with meditation and yoga for self-awareness will forever end your weight loss struggles yes, without a gym or a diet.

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As health concerns become increasingly prevalent, the ketogenic diet, also known as keto, is becoming a new health trend in the United States.

The science behind keto, which is a low carbohydrate, high-fat diet, is that carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose and then are transported around the body as a fueling source. But, if there is only a small amount of carbohydrates in the diet, the liver converts fat into acids and ketones, and those are used instead of glucose as an energy source.

We use it a lot, Dee Harris said, who is a nutritionist and dietician for D-Signed Nutrition in Fort Myers. Keto is great for neurological conditions such as epilepsy. We have had many experiences where keto has shown to promote brain health.

According to Harris, sending ketones to the brain rather than glucose creates more nerve synapses in the brain, which can have positive effects such as memory retention.

The potential benefits of a ketogenic diet dont stop at neurological improvement. A lot of athletes are using it.

According to Harris, athletes that burn fat versus carbohydrates allow themselves to burn a lot more calories. The ketones in the body rather than glucose allow for higher levels of energy to be sustained for a longer period of time.

However, for the average everyday citizen, partaking in a ketogenic diet is not the simplest process. Its a strict diet, even requiring a daily intake of some unfamiliar fuels such as coconut oil.

According to Harris, coconut or MCT (medium chain triglycerides) oil is necessary on a ketogenic diet to have the energy to get a person through the day.

A lot of people do it incorrectly, Harris said. Its a tough diet to sustain because carbohydrates are in a lot of food we are so used to eating like bread and fruit. For experienced people on the ketogenic diet, they are only allowed to about a cup of berries a day, and thats about it for their carb intake.

According to Harris, people dont need to follow the diet in a highly strict manner to see improvements in their body. Staying away from processed foods, chips and sugar will make major, positive differences in the body.

Know what youre doing and get your meal plan done carefully by someone who knows what they are talking about, Harris said. Keto is just a buzz word right now. The better and broader goal is to clean up your diet in general.

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ANN ARBOR An online project created by students at the University of Michigan aims to make life easier for people with food allergies and special diets.

Co-founders Ish Baid and Michael Copley developed the Edible Project app to help people with diet restrictions find cuisine they can enjoy without worrying about allergies or ingredients, MLive reported.

Mr. Copleys severe dairy allergies inspired the idea.

The free app focuses on the Ann Arbor area and allows users to search by item, diet, or price using criteria such as milk allergies or vegetarian and vegan diets.

Edible Project shows restaurant hours and menu item reviews. Mr. Baid and Mr. Copley, who are software students at the University of Michigan, launched the product about a month ago.

We want to really see how we can take this app and create something thats helpful for our target audience, Mr. Baid said. If we can do it in Ann Arbor, we can do it anywhere.

The app is available through the Apple and Google Play stores.

As part of a marketing effort, the Edible team delivered more than 1,000 care packages across the University of Michigans campus, outside of dormitory entrances and near businesses. Mr. Baid said about 100 care packages were hidden throughout the Diag, the main pedestrian walkway through the central campus.

We figured it would just get people talking and more aware of the issue and familiar with the product, Mr. Baid said. They got snatched up very quickly.

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Professional athletes dont get to the top by accident. It takes superhuman levels of time, dedication, and focusand that includes paying attention to what they put in their bellies. In this series, GQ takes a look at what athletes in different sports eat on a daily basis to perform at their best. Heres a look at the daily diet of Jacob Manning, Instagram yoga star.

Before I got into my yoga practice I did heroin and cocaine, says yoga teacher Jacob Manning. I was homeless in San Francisco in the Tenderloin district, I lived in homeless shelters back to back to back, I even spent a little time in jail charged with a felony that was later expunged. That was basically my life.

If this doesnt mesh with your impression of yoga teachers as zenned out moms or Portlandia extras, you may need to reconsider the kind of people who are actually drawn to something that takes so much dedication. People dont go to yoga on a winning streak, says the 25-year-old Manning. You dont seek out a spiritual life unless youve kinda gone through hell.

Manning actually had his first yoga class at 19, at a treatment center, but despite feeling a draw, he still struggled with yogas less-than-masculine reputation, and it took an aunt dragging him to more classes later for him to fully embraced it. I lifted weights most of my life, mostly out of fear of what people thought about me and to compensate for things about myself that I didnt like. The yoga practice opened that up to where thats not the most important thing.

Yoga is one of those things that you never really masterthere are always new poses, variations on old ones, dealing with those old poses as your body agesbut theres still a point you get to where you realize, Oh, shit, I can do this. For Manning that was finally mastering the press handstand, a tricky pose where you move from a seated position to a full handstand without using your legs for support. It took me nine months of dedicating all of my time, outside of working at Taco Bell, to doing the press handstandstaying hours after class, practicing in my room before sleep. But then once I mastered that it was more, Well, whats the next thing?

Now an instructor in Southern California, Manning started using Instagram as a yoga journal to chart his progress and improve poses (its surprisingly hard to know what your bodys doing when you cant see yourself). But its also a way for people to follow as he improves and keeps trying out whatever the next thing is. It lets me see where Im at at that time in my life, the physical transformation, what I was going through, and using that as a reflection to see my growth and progress and to be as authentic as I can. Ive been really fortunate with how people respond.

To stay photo-ready, Manning, whos tried everything from vegan to meats-only, sticks to a protein-heavy diet, aiming for one gram per pound of target weight. His largest meal of the day is dinner, and hes got a natural edge for staying fit in that he, like Fabio, hates sweets. He supplements yoga with snowboarding weekly with his girlfriend, surfing daily in the spring and summer, and the sporadic 7-10 mile jog with pull-ups and dips when running through parks. Doing yoga, sometimes its hard to get your body sore and dig deep into the muscle tissues, he adds. We have a hard time relating to that.

Breakfast Six scrambled eggs spinach, whole mushrooms, cheese Unflavored yogurt as a sour cream-y topping

Lunch Protein shake with serving of fruits and vegetables Vitamins including fish oil, chondroitin and glucosamine, iron, B12

Dinner Asparagus, baked salmon with turmeric and potatoes, brown rice

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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- The outgoing leader of the University of California's Berkeley campus improperly accepted free benefits, mostly related to personal fitness, an investigation found.

A report released Friday was heavily blacked out, but the readable portions said Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks didn't pay for $5,000 worth of a gym membership and 48 personal training sessions. He also had an elliptical exercise machine worth at least $3,500 installed at home, the Los Angeles Times reported (goo.gl/meb7Mh).

The investigation concluded in September, but the report was kept private for six months.

UC ethics rules bar employees from the unauthorized use of campus resources or facilities or the "entanglement" of private interests with UC obligations.

UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein said Dirks has apologized and repaid the money.

Dirks, who declined to comment, will step down June 30.

Dirks took office as UC Berkeley's 10th chancellor on June 1, 2013, and during his tenure launched major initiatives to strengthen undergraduate education and to optimize fundraising. But he came under fire for allegedly being too lenient when handling sexual harassment cases involving high-profile faculty.

In one case, Sujit Choudhry, the former dean of the law school, received only a temporary pay cut and orders to undergo counseling as punishment after an investigation substantiated claims that he repeatedly kissed and touched a subordinate.

Dirks has said he plans to become a full-time professor at the university.

Last week, Carol T. Christ, a scholar of Victorian literature and former president of Smith College, was named the next chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley by the UC Board of Regents.

She will be the first woman in the school's 149-year history to hold the position.

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