Up, not out: flexing checks dizziness and fainting
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Research with 9 people indicates that exercises involving thigh and buttock muscles are effective in compensating for orthostatic hypertension, which is marked by dizziness and fainting upon standing. Practicing such exercises improved blood pressure upon rising by 30%.
Publication Name: Prevention
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0032-8006
Year: 1997
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Two-day turnaround: fast-start fitness for beginning exercisers
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Research with 1,132 people over a 5-year period indicates that exercising twice a week for 25 minutes each session provides 90% as much of the weight-loss and fitness benefits as exercising three time a week for the same amount of time.
Publication Name: Prevention
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0032-8006
Year: 1997
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Job-site destressor: fitness curb's women's BP glitches
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Duke University researchers studying 24 slightly overweight working women discovered a link between blood pressure increases and fitness level. The fitter women showed less of an increase in blood pressure at home and at work.
Publication Name: Prevention
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0032-8006
Year: 1997
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