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GO LONGER FOR HEART HEALTH

Every Extra 10 Minutes = HDL Up 4%

To pump up your "good" cholesterol, put in the time. While shorter bursts of exercise help your heart in many ways -- keeping triglycerides, blood pressure and weight under control -- Japanese researchers found significant increases in HDL cholesterol only when exercise lasted longer than 30 minutes.

The large-scale analysis looked at over 1,400 people of all ages, whose workout activities ranged from biking and brisk walking to swimming and   Continue...

ADULT JUMP ROPE

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BETTER WORKERS WORK OUT

Obesity Increases Absenteeism, Impedes Effectiveness

Want to improve productivity at work? Try heading for the gym. A study published in the January 2004 issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine found that workouts make for better workers. Researchers at the Minneapolis Center for Health Promotion (CHP) surveyed 683 workers -- from accountants to auto mechanics -- to find out how fitness levels correlated with absenteeism, co-worker relationships and employees' own perception of their on-the-job effectiveness.

Employees who exercised at least three days a week accomplished more and produced higher-quality work with less effort than their sedentary counterparts. Lead researcher Nicolaas P. Pronk, Ph.D., suggested fit worke   Continue...