Endurance exercise raises stamina by improving the consumption of oxygen by the body, and especially by improving consumption of oxygen by the muscles. It is commonly known that planned endurance exercise considerably improves stamina. It is also obvious that even people over seventy or eighty years of age can increase body muscle mass and lower body fat mass by means of regular endurance exercise. The substantial majority of people in this age group should be active and look really well.

Furthermore, a backache is very seldom a once-in-a-lifetime event, claims Deyo, who is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, in Seattle. And even though the annual price tag for low back pain is estimated at 50 billion dollars, Deyo claims that much of that is spent on needless therapies.

All the aches and pains resulting from working at a computer every day may be successfully relieved by providing your forearms with supportive arm boards or pads.

The latest research indicates that offering forearm support can considerably decrease neck and shoulder pain as well as hand, wrist, and forearm pain related to computer use.

Nowadays, all women live over thirty per cent of their lives with menopause. Have we ignored what this means?

In 2003, the scientists announced that hormone replacement therapy considerably increased the risk of breast cancer and heart disease, which resulted in millions of women quitting their hormones. Whilst the real risks associated with hormone therapy in the research were not high, the influence this would have on women’s lives was mostly forgotten.

Everywhere and every day we are surrounded by lots of health advice: Take this, eat that, don’t eat that, don’t do the other. However, even the most health aware persons- not to mention the physician averse – may happen to make some mistakes in terms of caring for themselves.

According to recent studies, pregnant women may have one less thing to worry about.

In the May/June issue of Child Development, scientists reveal that mild to moderate amounts of psychological stress may slightly help in healthy pregnant women,- and not harm - babies’ development.

A lot of patients infected with HIV, the virus causing AIDS, are trying alternative forms of treatment – apart from conventional methods - to help relieve symptoms including severe pain. But just how many people are turning to methods like herbs, massage, or acupuncture and, more importantly, do they work? According to two latest studies appearing in a recent edition of the journal Alternative Therapies, they do — to a certain extent, of course.

Almost obviously it is not accidental that the decreasing interest in breastfeeding a baby collided head on with the emergence of the American working mother.

There are numerous various kinds of medications used for the treatment of pain, including over-the-counter (OTC) medications- drugs available without a prescription from the doctor and those obtained only by a doctor’s prescription.

The latest study reveals that people suffering from chronic pain may obtain some relief by listening to music for at least one hour daily.

Research published in June’s Journal of Advanced Nursing discovers that adults who suffer from chronic pain observed less pain, depression, and disability and felt more empowered after one week of listening to music for an hour daily.