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The gym proving too expensive or time consuming?

June 28, 2019 Tom Patriot

How much do you exercise? Government guidelines suggest that, in order to stay healthy, adults should perform at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity every week — that’s exercise that gets your breathing and heart rate up. A new study, published in The Journal of Physiology investigated a home-based high-intensity interval training (Home-HIT) programme and studied its benefits for clinically obese individuals with an elevated risk of heart disease. Previous research has demonstrated that under controlled laboratory conditions, you can get the same benefits from three 20-minute exercise sessions, as from…

The FDA Is Reevaluating Sunscreen Ingredients — Here’s What That Means For You

June 28, 2019 Tom Patriot

This spring, the Food and Drug Administration announced it is reevaluating the safety of every single chemical sunscreen agent. Makes you a little nervous, right? Us, too. And since we’re not going to find out the results of this reevaluation until November, we all have a long, confusing, sun-filled summer ahead. So we did our best to get as many answers as possible to help you — and, fine, us — make the right decision right now. So why the closer look at sunscreen ingredients in the first place? The FDA told us it’s…

Low-carb diet may reduce diabetes risk independent of weight loss

June 27, 2019 Tom Patriot

A low-carb diet may have benefits for people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes even if they don’t lose any weight, a new study suggests. Researchers at The Ohio State University wanted to know what happens to obese people with metabolic syndrome, a precursor to diabetes, when they eat a diet low in carbohydrates but don’t shed any pounds. They found that more than half of study participants no longer met the criteria for metabolic syndrome immediately following a four-week low-carb diet. The new study included 16 men and…

How to Maintain Your Skin-Care and Self-Care Routines During Workplace Bargaining

June 27, 2019 Tom Patriot

When queer Black feminist icon Audre Lorde wrote, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare,” she wasn’t necessarily envisioning charcoal bubble baths or matcha smoothies. In the particular section of the book from which this quote is so often pulled, A Burst of Light: And Other Essays, Lorde was explaining the pressures she felt to overextend herself following her successful battle with cancer and articulating her resolve to “live whatever life [she had] as fully and as sweetly as possible,” something she considered to…

Upbeat music can sweeten tough exercise

June 26, 2019 Tom Patriot

New research coming out of UBC’s Okanagan campus demonstrates that upbeat music can make a rigorous workout seem less tough. Even for people who are insufficiently active. Matthew Stork is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences. He recently published a study examining how the right music can help less-active people get more out of their workout — and enjoy it more. High-intensity interval training (HIIT) — brief, repeated bouts of intense exercise separated by periods of rest — has been shown to improve physical health…