“For decades, health experts have been at odds about how much exercise actually makes a difference on stress and anxiety. Most of them agree that a moderate to low amount of regular exercise can ease anxiety. But the latest research from the University of Missouri in Columbia shows that high-intensity exercise is the best way to go.”
Q: What is exercise intensity?
A: In simplest terms, it's how hard an exercise is at a point in time. The technical definition is the level of momentary exertion during exercise.
Q: Why is it important?
A: Exercise of sufficient intensity is necessary to stimulate the body to make a change. When the body is worked beyond what it is equipped to handle, the body adapts as a form of self-protection.
From this recent New York Times article Treatments: Study Sees Little Benefit in Chondroitin for Arthritis comes this information:
From this article Proof: There IS a gene that makes you fat comes this information:
“Scientists have discovered a rogue gene behind the obesity epidemic.”
From the ABC News 20/20 report, Is Cardio-Free the Way To Be? come points of view for and against cardio exercise:
One point of view:
"Cardiovascular exercise kills a weight-loss plan, your internal organs, your immune system, your time and your motivation. If your true goal is to lose weight, interval strength training is the only way to go," says Karas, an ABC News correspondent, celebrity trainer and fitness expert.
Another view:
From this article Diets damage health, shows biggest ever study comes this revelation:
“The world's largest study of weight loss has shown that diets do not work for the vast majority of slimmers and may even put lives at risk.
More than two-thirds pile the pounds straight back on, raising the danger of heart attack, stroke and diabetes. Indeed most dieters end up heavier than they did to start with, the researchers found.”
