Lives in Balance: Developing Positive Stress Response Techniques
The Hardiness Institute, founded in the early 1980s, is helping people develop qualities that will allow them to deal with stress. In addition to such techniques, some people find it helpful to use meditation or prayer and regular physical activity ...
Weighing In: Step Two: Changing the Way You Move
Changing the way you eat is the first step in losing weight. The second step is changing the way you move. Penny and Mary Pat, two patients at UCI's Weight Management Program, chose an exercise program that worked for them and began to manage not on...
Working It Out: Children and Exercise
Childhood is the perfect time to key in on the enjoyment of healthy physical activity. If left alone, the younger members of any mammalian species are physically active. But as children get older, parents, and sometimes coaches, may push a child's i...
The Growing Years: Childhood Exercise Falls Victim to Television
Children are not getting as much exercise as they should. One reason is that they spend too much time in front of the television set. Researchers have found that when television viewing is limited, children fill their time with more active pursuits....