Science news articles about 'fitness centers'

... Weight Watchers participants stuck with the program during the duration of the study, while many of the fitness center participants quit. "These results imply that overweight, sedentary women joining ...

Gyms and fitness centers have begun stepping in to meet a small but growing demand for programs designed for cancer patients.

... daily tasks, according to researchers at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center. In a pre-program assessment where ... D., research director at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, a residential weight loss program ...

... available. Strike up the nerve to ask for extras. Fitness centers are slashing fees for current and new ...

... on nametags (as Disney does with employees' hometowns) or on websites (as many health organizations and fitness centers do), most consumers react positively. However, when service providers exhibit ...

... as they begin life as a cancer survivor," Schmitz says. "We did the intervention in community fitness centers deliberately, in the hope that positive results seen in our study would continue to be ...

... range from a comprehensive obesity prevention initiative -- involving walking trails, a new fitness center, and breastfeeding promotion -- to a city law requiring calorie information on restaurant ...

... of physical therapist-directed exercise counseling and fitness center-based exercise training or a comparison ... -day-per-week access to a local fitness center. Each participant in the comparison group ...

... wolfing down protein shakes; something  your  commission-based, fitness-center trainer does not want you to read. The study's results, obtained by measuring muscle synthesis rates in ...